On: An Air Force officer who spent $11M searching Earh...

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> Roughly a month into the trip, the team captured a sonar image of the plane-shaped object about 100 miles from Howland Island — but didn't discover the image in the submersible's data until the 90th day of the voyage, making it impractical to turn back to get a closer look.

To be a skeptic, this sounds like confirmation bias.

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Or maybe the computer they had analyzing the data takes a while to search and it had nothing to do with people at all.