Can sophisticated imaging technology solve the 77-year-old mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart's disappearance?

Forensic imaging expert Jeff Glickman believes that it can. Last week, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR)—which Glickman volunteers for—released new research claiming that a riveted aluminum piece found in 1991 is likely a patch from Earhart's plane.

Earhart disappeared in 1937, on an attempted round-the-world flight. People have been searching for her remains and her plane ever since.

Last week's announcement by the aircraft recovery group came after it was noticed that the 19-by-23-inch (48 by 58 centimeters) sheet of aluminum has a similar size and shape as a shiny patch that appears on the side of Earhart's plane in a 1937 photograph from the