The Taraia Object: Amelia Earhart’s Aircraft?

Archaeology Channel ^ | 01/15/2025 | Kyle Solomons

[Az Joe]

The Taraia Object is the commonly used name for a visual anomaly in the lagoon of Nikumaroro Island in the south Pacific Ocean. Its location is alongside the Taraia Peninsula, which projects southwestward from the north side of the lagoon. The Object is visible in satellite images, aerial photos, drone footage, and video footage of the lagoon. Its location is directly east of the Tatiman Passage, which connects the lagoon to the open ocean. (Satellite image)

[Paal Gulli]

Not a chance. Just somebody fishing for free publicity.

#1, the hardest place in the ocean for a man-made structure to survive is in the tidal zone. Waves would have beaten anything as flimsy as an unpressurized airplane hull to death in well less than 80+ years.

#2, not a hint of the Lockheed 10 Electra's YUGE radial engines OR engine nacelles, and no indication that a YUGE chunk is missing from the wings where the engines should be.

#3, no taper to the wings. Wing chord at the root should be a quarter of the airframe's overall length. What's in the picture is barely bigger than a helicopter's rotor.

[stylecouncilor]

That’s very cool!

[OldHarbor]

Nice to have a reference drawing .

Whatever that item is, it’s not her plane. It looks like a piece of equipment, probably from a fishing vessel.

[Az Joe]

August should tell