A former US Air Force pilot has published images he claims may show the wreckage of the airplane flown by legendary aviator Amelia Earheart.
Tony Romeo took to social media to share the photos, depicting a plane-shaped blur at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Earheart's plane, the Lockheed Electra, first disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 as she set off on a mission to become the first woman to fly around the world.
Since then, her plane has never been found.
However, Romeo, now a real estate investor who sold his business to fund his search for Earhart's plane wreckage, believes he may have the answer.
"On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Papua New Guinea, nearing the end of their record-setting journey around the world never to be seen again. Until today," his Instagram post read.
"Deep Sea Vision found what appears to be Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra."
Romeo subsequently told the Wall Street Journal: "This is maybe the most exciting thing I'll ever do in my life.
"I feel like a 10-year-old going on a treasure hunt," he said.
It's not the first attempt at solving the mystery of Earhart's disappearance.
In 2018, a forensic analysis of bones discovered on the Pacific Island of Nikumaroro suggested they could belong to Earheart.
The bones, first discovered in 1940, were initially assumed to belong to a male. However, the analysis suggested the measurements of the bones aligned more with a female.
They found measurements of the bones were like what would have been expected if they belonged to Earheart.
In the same year, expedition leaders from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery said they may have found the wreckage of her plane off an island in the South Pacific, after citing a sonar image depicting a plane-like shape.
