# UPI 2025: Nauticos says new analysis narrows search for Amelia Earhart's plane; plans fourth expedition

> UPI, 2025. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Search coverage figures and the state of the crash-and-sink search in 2025.

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# Nauticos says new analysis narrows search for Amelia Earhart's plane; plans fourth expedition

UPI, 2025. _United Press International_.

Reports Nauticos's August 2025 announcement of a radio-propagation analysis using a restored Electra radio system, a planned fourth deep-water expedition near Howland, and the areas covered by its 2002, 2006 and 2017 searches (about 1,860 square miles) and with the Waitt Institute's 2009 search (about 3,610 square miles).

**Disappearance of Amelia Earhart** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Search coverage figures and the state of the crash-and-sink search in 2025.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[About 3,610 square miles of seabed near Howland have been searched by sonar without result.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/evidence/EVD0CYPMVYC7GKS/about-3-610-square-miles-of-seabed-near-howland-have-been)

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[Nauticos begins deep-water sonar searches near Howland](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/events/EVT0CYPMQHR77WY/nauticos-begins-deep-water-sonar-searches-near-howland)

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[The disappearance of Amelia Earhart](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart)

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[Nauticos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/organisations/ORG0CYPMMC63CPV/nauticos)

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[Where did the Electra come down?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/amelia-earhart/questions/QST0CYPMTFG0SXJ/where-did-the-electra-come-down)

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UPI (2025). Nauticos says new analysis narrows search for Amelia Earhart's plane; plans fourth expedition. United Press International. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/19/amelia-earhart-aviation-pioneer-nauticos/2961755630049/
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