Conspiracy

The CIA once spent years covertly searching for Noah's Ark

By T.K. Randall
March 31, 2025 ·  16 comments

The Durupinar formation in Turkey. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 Zorka Sojka The story of Noah and the Great Flood needs no introduction, but the final whereabouts of the ark itself - if it even existed at all - continue to remain a topic of heated debate.

Now, according to declassified files, high-ranking members of the US government once had a keen (and somewhat inexplicable) interest in locating the biblical vessel and tasked the CIA with tracking it down.

One four-page document entitled Report Re: Noah's Ark notes how the CIA had actively investigated the infamous Durupinar formation site in Turkey which for years has been rumored to be the petrified remains of the ark itself.

DCI William Colby - who headed up the CIA from 1973 to 1976 - received orders to investigate the site from Lt. Col. Walter Brown of the US Air Force who was himself on a mission to determine "whether any evidence of the Ark could be found."Spy satellites and even a U-2 spy plane were used to probe the site for clues.

It was later reported that the photographs had yielded "negative results".

Things didn't end there, however, as over the next 8 years there were multiple additional requests for information about the search for Noah's Ark from members of Congress, DCI Intelligence Community Staff and even from a former astronaut.

On each occassion, the CIA had responded by stating that no evidence of the vessel had been found.

Exactly why so many government officials were interested in finding Noah's Ark, however, remains unclear.

Source: Mail Online | Comments (16)

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