The enigma surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, may finally be on the brink of resolution. After close to 90 years, Deep Sea Vision, a deep-sea exploration company helmed by ex-U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Tony Romeo, has revealed a sonar image that could potentially unravel this historic mystery.

In an intriguing development, Deep Sea Vision’s advanced sonar image equipment detected an object lying at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, resembling the shape and size of Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra aircraft. This expedition, funded by the sale of Romeo’s commercial real estate assets, transpires not far from where Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, are hypothesized to have last been.

Deep Sea Vision’s team, in their pursuit of Earhart’s long-lost aircraft, now believes they may have located the wreckage. This discovery could significantly illuminate our understanding of the circumstances surrounding Earhart’s ill-fated attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. With the potential for a key piece of aviation history now resting upon the sea-bed of the Pacific Ocean, only time will tell if this sonar image indeed marks the end of Amelia Earhart’s elusive cold case.