Fascinating video and article from CNN concerning a possible clue to the fate of Amelia Earhart’s aircraft found in a 1937 photograph.  The video of the story is first:

The full article:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/20/reports-new-search-planned-for-amelia-earhart/

Consider me one of those people who are fascinated with the the multitude of “unsolved mysteries”-type stories one can run into.  Perhaps chief among them is the perennial mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart back in 1937 while attempting to become the first female to circumnavigate the globe by aircraft.  Discovering the fate of Ms. Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan would be a terrific story and close the book on the enduring mystery and I hope the investigators in this article and video are on the right track.

Having said that, the photograph they say may show the landing gear of the Lockheed Electra protruding from a reef is intriguing but I find it hard to completely swallow.  Why did whoever took that photograph a few months after Earhart’s disappearance not notice a metal protrusion coming out of the water by the island?  Granted, the image takes up a very small part of the photograph, but still, wouldn’t they have noticed something metallic shimmering close to the edge of shore?  Further, and while I freely admit to being absolutely NO expert at the Lockheed aircraft, the amplified image itself looks like something of a Rorschach blotch.  Is it possible the investigators are seeing what they want to see there?

I certainly don’t know, but I sincerley hope their theories turn out to be true and one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th Century is finally solved.