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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CLAIM: That process has now concluded that the object under the Durupınar mound is not a natural rock formation, but a large organized man-made object with corridors, chambers and hallways inside
ME: Izzat so??
The recent claims come from the Noah's Ark Scans team working at the Durupınar site. They report that radar surveys detected anomalies that they interpret as possible chambers, corridors, tunnels, and structural layers beneath the formation. However, even reports favorable to the project note that radar data alone do not prove the features are man-made. [ibtimes.co.uk], [hindustantimes.com]
A key distinction:
One article summarizing the 2026 work specifically states that radar revealed features the team interprets as corridors and chambers, but adds that those interpretations have not established that the features are man-made and that physical sampling is required to determine what caused the radar signatures. [ibtimes.co.uk]
Another report notes that researchers claimed to have "100 percent confirmed" a man-made object, but immediately states that the findings have not established that the site is Noah's Ark and that additional scientific testing is still required. [hindustantimes.com]
So the most accurate wording today would be:
Researchers investigating the Durupınar site claim radar data reveals subsurface anomalies consistent with possible corridors, chambers, and other organized structures, but independent confirmation that the formation is a large man-made object has not yet been established. [ibtimes.co.uk], [hindustantimes.com]
As an artifact-forensics question, this is the same distinction we often make with coins or archaeological objects:"interesting pattern" is not the same as "proven identification." The radar results may be genuinely interesting, but the decisive evidence would be recovered physical material, excavation data, repeatable measurements, and peer-reviewed analysis. So far, the public reports are still at the anomaly-detection stage.
Taint MY list - it's ROME's!!!
I'm merely the compiler and broadcaster thereof.
How should I know?
Who has told Catholics that Mary is in heaven now?
They who?
Knew what?
——>Izzat so??
Yezzzzzz it is
Her own Son would probably disagree with that last statement, for it says in Romans 3:12...
Oh, yes. But you’re good as the Official FR Keeper Of The Heresy.
‘... a group of Turkish researchers has decided...’
Love your proof.
I’ll be gone someday. Who wants my mantle??
Nonsense. Interpreted that way, nobody of the time who believed in Jesus would go to heaven - and nobody later would either, including you.
Elsie, your main belief seems to be in yourself.
The entire mediterranean
LOL!!!! Why is Ron Wyatt there? Why is he shaking everyone’s hand (some are even bowing)? Why does he have a seat at the table during the dedication ceremony??? Why do they give him a turn at the shovel/concrete foundation? He puts 3 shovels of concrete in the foundation. Everyone claps. WHY ELSIE???
Probably not me. I’m old. Need to appoint a youngster.
The Durupinar formation does not match the shape of the Biblical description of the Ark - which was a large, floating rectangular box. It did not have curved sides, or a shaped bow / stern. Would be a marvel if it were the Ark, but not likely. It certainly doesn't match what Ed Davis swore that he saw, that which he passed a polygraph claiming he saw the Ark. Whatever is under the Durupinar formation is very unlikely to be the Biblical Ark. Maybe it's Gilgamesh's boat?
Thanks, I’d forgotten that there were two of some animals but fourteen of others.
I mentioned koalas. I don’t whether they’re clean or unclean.
So how did the two of them or the fourteen of them get from Turkey to Australia?
“So God has Noah do all this, survive all that and you’re hung up on cow’s?”
Sorry, you lost me. I said nothing about cows.
Maybe “cow’s” was a typo for “how’s”? I wouldn’t say I’m hung up, just wanting to know more about what happened after the Ark came to rest.
Koalas are probably unclean. I believe Deuteronomy provides a detailed description of clean and unclean animals.
It would also be interesting to know why the koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, etc. all moved to Australia and didn’t hang around Mt. Ararat.
It’s not this one it’s one of the other two formations near this one
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