Surely, the grainy image had to be Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane, 16,000 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. This week, Tony Romeo announced that the discovery amounted to less than they had hoped.

Hopes of finding the long lost plane of pilot Amelia Earhart were dashed Wednesday when they company that claimed it found a possible aircraft revealed its investigation came up short.

Earlier this year, an adventurer announced he believed he had found Amelia Earhart’s long-lost aircraft.Turns out what he found was a rock.“I’m super disappointed out here, but you know, I guess that’s life,

A South Carolina adventurer's Amelia Earhart discovery turned out to be a plane-shaped rock formation, not her long-lost plane.

The South Carolina-based deep-sea explorer who stumbled upon what he believed to be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane in the Pacific Ocean has now confirmed his once-promising discovery was just a rock.