Scientists have been directed to a portion of their sonar image of the Atlantic. The image fits with what many believed to be the wreckage of Earhart's flight that went down in 1937.

Many believed that the famed solo transatlantic flier landed in an island near the location of the wreckage. The size and the shape of the foreign object also seem to coincide with that of the aircraft.

TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) took the image on July 15,2012, which shows a narrow object, similar to an airplane's wing approximately 22 feet long and located inside an opening in the underwater cliff near Nikularoro Island of the Republic of Kiribati.

"It was somebody online who noticed the object and directed our attention to it," says Richard Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR.

He claims, "When you are looking for man-made objects in a natural environment, it is important to look for things that are different, and this is different. It is an anomaly unlike anything else in that underwater environment."

Caretaker and historian of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchinson, Kansas, named Lou Foudray, believes that Earhart had not died in the crash, but lived her life in secret after the incident.

She says that there are "testimonials from her friends that Earhart said before she took off for her final flight that when she came back she wanted to live a life away from the public eye."

Amelia Earhart was first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.