"There is an object in the photo that appears to be a Lockheed Electra engine cowling," Gillespie told Mail Online. by T.K. Randall via Unexplained-Mysteries Image Credit: Library of Congress Researchers have found what could be evidence of Earhart's plane under the sea near Nikumaroro. More than 82 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in her Lockheed Model 10 Electra, the question of what happened to her continues to remain one of the biggest unanswered mysteries of the modern age. In recent years, however, clues have been found suggesting that Earhart's plane may have gone down somewhere in the remote Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro and that the aviator and her navigator Fred Noonan may have even survived for several days on a small island while awaiting rescue. Now possible new evidence in support of this theory has been unearthed in the form of an underwater photograph taken during an expedition to Nikumaroro back