NIKUMARORO, Oct. 19 -- The team that called its evidence "very strong" that a shape in a Pacific lagoon was Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra now says the shape was most likely a pile of trees. The setback comes after a 2024 sonar image of an apparent aircraft that CBS News said was later identified as a rock formation.

Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute announced the finding on Monday, Oct. 19, local time, which was still Sunday in the eastern United States because Nikumaroro runs 17 hours ahead. Evidence gathered at the Taraia Peninsula showed that the anomaly first seen in satellite imagery in 2020 was likely a collection of large trees deposited along the sandspit, the team said.

TEH reported last week that th...