{
  "id": 16074750,
  "title": "Researchers Claimed a Blurry Object on Apple Maps Was 'Very Likely' Amelia Earhart's Missing Plane. It Turned Out to Be a 'Collection of Large Trees'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/researchers-claimed-a-blurry-object-on-apple-maps-was-very-likely",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-22T16:20:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-claimed-a-blurry-object-on-apple-maps-was-very-likely-amelia-earharts-missing-plane-it-turned-out-to-be-a-collection-of-large-trees-180989734/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A 17-person crew traveled to a remote atoll in the South Pacific to investigate the so-called Taraia Object. After surveying the site, the team announced that the anomaly was not a fragment of the long-lost Lockheed Electra aircraft",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}