Posted on 11/21/2002 11:50:10 AM PST by Ready2go
CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents Posted Nov. 13, 2002 By Timothy W. Maier
Is it the Ark, or just a piece of rock?
Two years after Insight filed an appeal charging that the CIA withheld documents and imagery concerning the Mount Ararat anomaly in Turkey, the CIA has released two new documents to Insight that indicate the search for "Noah's Ark" reached the level of the White House under former president George H.W. Bush.
The appeal, filed one month after Insight's exclusive story (see "Anomaly or Noah's Ark?"; Nov. 20, 2000), comes on the heels of the CIA's releasing thousands of satellite images, which soon will be available at National Imagery and Mapping Agency Website. It is unclear whether images of Mount Ararat will be included. Insight's exclusive story marked the first time the public was able to see high-resolution photographs of the anomaly, located at 39 degrees 42 minutes north latitude and 44 degrees 16 minutes east longitude. Insight contracted with Space Imaging to maneuver its IKONOS satellite to zoom in on the anomaly. Afterwards, Insight hired a team of scientists and engineers to examine the pictures and to deterimine whether the object in question was man-made or rock. Four of the experts claim it's man-made, two believe it's rock and one says the evidence is inconclusive.
Unfortunately, the release of the additional records does not offer any more proof of what the object might be, but only raises more questions as to why the CIA continues to hold such records as classified.
One of the records released is a 1995 memo from an agent who had a coversation with John Hanford, then a member of Sen. Richard Lugar's (R-Ind.) staff. Hanford apparently recalled a White House meeting under the George H.W. Bush administration in which Robert Gates, then National Security director, showed one of the old images of the Mount Ararat area to various people at the meeting. "Mr. Hanford said that imagery showed something sticking out from the ice and snow but that it could have been almost anything."
The memo was triggered by a newspaper article that suggested Mount Ararat imagery might be made public under former president Bill Clinton's decision to release historical documents. The CIA agent says in the memo that such imagery "might or might not be included in the declassified materials."
The other record concerned a review the George H.W. Bush administration conducted between 1990 and 1992 concerning Mount Ararat. The record was in response to former CIA director James Woolsey's requesting what it might cost to undertake a more exhaustive review of all the material. At the time, the price was considered too high to do such a search. Woolsey was told it would take an analyst six months to complete such a study. It appears that study never was completed.
Insight still may receive additional records. The CIA has asked other agencies to review specific records for possible release in the near future. In the meantime, Insight is reviewing its options on whether to pursue in federal court images taken by the CIA with its KH-9 remote-sensing satellite in 1973 and its KH-11 satellite in 1976, 1990 and 1992.
Timothy Maier is a writer for Insight. email the author
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Too easy to [See through] dismiss.
If you can find us documentation older than the Biblical Text [that actually confirms why the Jews "know" that Israel is indeed THEIR homeland] then feel free to provide it.
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But but but That would require EVOLUTION!!!!
They even interviewed more than one person who had actually been inside the Ark.
I personally know a missionary in Turkey who has seen it with his own eyes......and yes, on Mt. Ararat.
Only because the other dogs refuse to breed with them...
Before the Flood, our environment was much different (higher oxygen content, higher barometric pressure, etc.) which allowed for longer lives and supported the growth of larger animals and plants. (In the fossil record many animals were much larger in the past: sloths, bears, elephants, carnivores (like the saber-tooth tiger), etc. How many dragon flies do you see flying around with 2-3 foot wingspans nowadays? I recall reading that pteranodons and pteradactyls could not function in an modern-type environment. If dinosaurs survived the Flood, they likely became extinct shortly thereafter. However, for example if crocodiles had become extinct, they would probably have been considered a type of dinosaur, even though fossil crocodiles are even larger that the largest ones today.
Since people lived for hundreds of years back then (I guess the bible says this somewhere), Yes. Genesis, chapter 5 and elsewhere. so did the animals...So they grew bigger. Of course, I never asked him what happen to all these giant people...Cro-magnons and Neandertals were significantly larger and more robust that the average modern human. The Hiedelberg Skull (a well-known human fossil) practically is a giant, IIRC.
He also had an intersting theory about the moon...He said because of the rate of dust falling on the moon suposedly being X over the years, we had prepared for about 3 foot of dust being on the surface...But when we got there, there was only inches...This was because the world really WAS only about 7000 years old. There are dozens of very good evidences for a young earth/universe. These have to do with the salt content of the oceans, helium content in the atmosphere, the rate of shrinkage of the sun, the rate of recession of the moon, and even the proximity of galaxies to each other.
He also explains carbon dating and other such "Proof" of a VERY old earth as being God's way of giving us stuff to think about.Carbon 14 dating really only goes back several thousand years is best used to date things like wood or dead (but not fossilized) tissues, not fossils. Other dating methods are based on circular reasoning and assumptions of initial concentrations of isotopes that are just guesses.
There are good websites you can check out that can explain it better than I can. Try www.icr.org or www.answersingenesis.org.
Used to have one in my house. A wolf-husky-chow mix. Interesting, but slightly feral beasty, like her owner...
Here's a big clue for you. Look at South America and Africa. They were once joined at the hip.
Continental drift took hundreds of millions of years to separate them.
Did you vote for Perot in 1992?
Also I would urge restraint considering what the exact nature of the artifact is up there. In theory it could be some kind of large wooden hut put up there thousands of years ago by ancient humans (that is, not necessarily a boat). Or it could be some other kind of artifact, not even necessarily man made...
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