Posted on 09/30/2026 2:24:38 PM PDT by Ezekiel
A team scanning a boat-shaped hill in eastern Turkey has announced that new radar images show a large man-made structure underground, not just natural rock.
On Wednesday, private research group Noah’s Ark Scans released a preliminary report about their work at the Durupınar Formation in Turkey, claiming that the 515-foot boat-shaped mound contained a 'man-made object.'
The scans were conducted by Dr Khosrow Bakhtar, an engineer who spent decades building detection systems for US defense agencies, including the Air Force, Navy and NORAD.
He used a system he invented called BakhtarRadar, originally developed to find buried tunnels and hidden structures, to scan beneath the boat-shaped Durupınar mound and see whether it was solid natural rock or a man-made structure with rooms and corridors inside.
That process has now concluded that the object under the Durupınar mound is not a natural rock formation, but a large organized man-made structure with corridors, chambers and hallways inside.
In a press release sent to the Daily Mail, Dr Bakhtar said: 'Whatever the object is beneath the surface is extraordinary.
'In forty years of this work, I have never seen anything like it. It could be a ship. It could be a spaceship. What I can say from the radar is that it is organized, it is structural, and a solid geological mass would not have returned such a strong signature.'
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The way it's written:
“...no sign will be given except...”
(Thus my earlier ‘neither’ statement.)
“One man’s treasure, is another man’s...
Very often but not always. Fortresses like Masada, for example. Also the city of Jerusalem (before it held the temple), Hazor, and Lachish, also built on high places for defensive purposes. Outside of the Middle East, Rome was built on seven hills and, high in the Andes of Peru, was the city of Machu Picchu built by the Incas.
If you're trusting in Christ, PLUS something else, you just might be on shaky ground.
Your list always makes me roar! 😆
CLAIM: The Turkish government recognizes RON WYATT as discovering Noah’s ark.
ME: Really?
COPILOT: Short answer: No, not in the way that claim is usually presented.
What is true is that in 1987 Turkish officials held a ceremony at the Durupınar site and promoted it as a Noah's Ark tourist location. Ron Wyatt was present and was treated as an important figure associated with the site. Reports from Wyatt's own organization state that local and regional Turkish officials referred to the formation as Noah's Ark and honored Wyatt as its discoverer. [wyattmuseum.com], [drrichardkent.org]
However, that is very different from saying that the Turkish government officially recognizes Ron Wyatt as having discovered Noah's Ark as a proven archaeological fact.
Several points complicate the claim:
So if someone says:
"Turkey officially recognizes Ron Wyatt as the discoverer of Noah's Ark"
the most accurate response is:
Turkish officials at certain times promoted the Durupınar site as Noah's Ark and publicly honored Ron Wyatt, but Turkey has not established, through accepted archaeological consensus or a clear modern governmental declaration, that Wyatt conclusively discovered Noah's Ark. [drrichardkent.org], [wyattmuseum.com], [en.wikipedia.org]
The page you're looking at appears to be repeating a very common Wyatt-supporter talking point that takes a real 1987 dedication ceremony and stretches it into a much broader claim than the evidence supports
CLAIM: ... the many anchor/drogue stones found within a few miles of the Durupınar Noah’s ark site.
ME: HMMMmmm...
COPILOT: The "anchor stones" are one of the strongest arguments Wyatt supporters raise, but they're also one of the most disputed.
Supporters point to large pierced stones found around the Ağrı/Doğubayazıt region and argue they were drogue stones (ancient sea anchors) carried by Noah's Ark. Wyatt's team claimed some had crosses (really?) and markings and that clusters of them near the Durupınar formation represented anchors deployed after the Flood.
The problems are:
The stones are not unique to the ark site. Similar pierced stones are found elsewhere in Anatolia and have been interpreted as grave markers, memorial stones, architectural elements, or other cultural artifacts.
Distance is an issue. Many of the stones cited by Wyatt are not at the boat-shaped formation itself, but are scattered over a broad area. Critics argue that finding unusual stones within a few miles of a proposed ark site does not establish a connection between them.
Lack of archaeological consensus. Mainstream archaeologists do not generally accept that these stones have been demonstrated to be nautical drogue stones, much less that they can be connected specifically to Noah's Ark.
The Flood scenario creates evidentiary challenges. Even if a stone were proven to be a drogue stone, that would not by itself prove it came from a particular vessel, or from a vessel dating to the biblical Flood.
What's interesting, Charlie, is that the drogue-stone argument is actually stronger than some of Wyatt's other claims because it involves real objects that can be photographed and examined. The weak point is not that the stones don't exist. The weak point is the chain of inference:
pierced stone → drogue stone → ancient ship → Noah's Ark → Durupınar formation
Each step requires evidence, and most archaeologists believe the later steps have not been demonstrated.
Seawater?
I was RAIN (fresh water) and fountains of the deep (wells?)
Genesis 1:
20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
CLAIM: We have some people who seem to think that insisting on the superiority of their particular sect is more important than actually practicing Christianity.
OTZI might have a different take on this...
“Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate,
and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and
also seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air—male and female—to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.”
Crosses came into the story a LOT later than Noah and his clan.
Who told Turkish authorities that the site was Noah’s ark?
——>Crosses came into the story a LOT later than Noah and his clan.
I agree. My point is that THEY ALL KNEW.
That seems like quite a presumption.
Why do you think Mary IS in Heaven?
That is a Catholic claim with zero proof.
is there evidence that Mary would have gone to the downstairs realm?
All evidence we have is that she was a good, God fearing woman.
Every couple of years like clockwork.
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