Noah's Ark Found? Company Claims Commercial Satellite Has Picture Proof

Space.com ^ | 4/26/04 | Space.com

[Brett66]

April 26

Noah's Ark Found? Company Claims Commercial Satellite Has Picture Proof

Satellite photos of Mount Aratat, Turkey taken by commercial imaging satellite company Digital Globe released today are said to contain proof of the existence of the biblical Noah's Ark.

The images, revealed at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (see right), are said to reveal a man-made structure at the site where the Bible states the vessel came to rest.

The claim was made by Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock -- The Trinity Corporation, who according to a press release has been searching for the Ark for several years.

The first pictures of the site were taken by the U.S. Air Force in 1949. The images allegedly revealed what seemed to be a structure covered by ice, but were held in a confidential file labeled “Ararat Anomaly” for years. In 1997, the government released several of these images, but experts deemed them inconclusive.

McGovern's is not the first satellite search for the Ark. In 2002, Porcher Taylor, a senior associate (nonresident) at the prominent think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., also requested satellite imagery of the area to see if the mythical vessel truly existed.

The summer of 2003 provided a great opportunity to take a new series of photographs, according to the release, because it was the hottest summer in Europe since 1500. This caused a massive meltdown on Mount Ararat. McGivern used DigitalGlobe’s Quick Bird satellite to collect a new set of satellite images.

Click to view close-up of alleged proof of Noah's Ark

According to the press release, McGivern has put together a team of scientists, archaeologists and forensic experts to excavate the object and collect samples beginning in August of this year.

“These new photos unequivocally show a man made object,” McGivern is quoted as saying. “I am convinced that the excavation of the object and the results of tests run on any collected samples will prove that it is Noah’s Ark.”

The field manager for the excavation will be Dr. Ahmet Ali Arslan, a native of Turkey who has traveled up Mount Ararat 50 times in 40 years and formerly worked in the Turkey Prime Minister’s office. According to the release, Arslan plans to discuss the details of the excavation with the Prime Minister next week.

[Stultis]

found it, the Mt Sinai video reference I mean ... very very believable ...

Sorry. Although it's been taken up by others since his death, this is another bogus Wyatt claim. Same pattern. Won't answer crucial questions, won't share data, haven't tested alleged artifacts in hand for years (and/or won't share the results), artifacts bogus or misidentified, etc, etc.

http://www.tentmaker.org/articles/cornuke-mt-sinai.html

[VaBthang4]

Thanks for the links I will research them.

[Betis70]

>>An object the size of the biblical ark would almost certainly be in the flow region of a glacier, and would be badly broken up (at best).

Right but the poster I was replying to said the ark couldn't exist "in any form". My point was that parts of it certainly could still exist (if it existed at all).

[AGreatPer]

I think that one image could be a frozen Unicorn. Hope they can get their and get some DNA. Imagine, a unicorn farm.

[AgThorn]

Appreciate the link you sent. Actually, I was responding to you yesterday when Freepers crashed so excuse the lateness of this response.

I read most of the link you sent as well as many of the sublinks off of that. For some reason, I am 'not' sold that this tentmaker.org site is any more reliable than some of the people they are out to disprove. In many of the items he points out or questions he asks, he is actually not really 'refuting' what evidence was put forth on the Mt Sinai claim, but rather asking even more questions that if can't be answered must disprove the claims so far.

Sorry, I am totally sold that Wyatt seems to be rather a flim-flam man, but sometimes the people that go out to disprove flim-flamers get a little zealous in their efforts and loose site of their original goal. As far as this link you provided, compared to the video that I have seen from this group, I am not convinced that it is not authentic.

Clear proof that this is not the site is not provided by tentmaker, only additional questions to test that go unanswered. Reminds me of the Pharisees of the bible. That is hardly proof that what is presented so far is not of strong value to pursue. If there are any other 'disproof' sites other than this, which to me seems to have 'an agenda', please pass it on.

I never make up my mind till I hear both sides ... trust me.

[AgThorn]

On second thought, I am now reading the second sublink (below) which is a bit more informative ... I may have spoke too soon! thanks

http://www.ldolphin.org/franz-sinai.html

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 04/26/2004. Thanks Brett66.

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[SunkenCiv]

With modern power tools it took over 300 man-years of labor to build each of the Ark 'replicas'.

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