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Ararat Anomaly
The Ararat anomaly is a structure appearing on photographs of the snowfields near the summit of Mount Ararat, Turkey, and advanced by some Christian believers as the remains of Noah's Ark. Location The anomaly is located on the northwest corner of the Western Plateau of Mount Ararat (approximately ) at about , some west of the summit, on the edge of what appears from the photographs to be a steep downward slope. History of existing imagery It was first filmed during a U.S. Air Force aerial reconnaissance mission in 1949 — the Ararat massif sits on the former Turkish/Soviet border, and was thus an area of military interest — and was accordingly given a classification of "secret" as were subsequent photographs taken in 1956, 1973, 1976, 1990 and 1992, by aircraft and satellites. Six frames from the 1949 footage were released under the Freedom of Information Act to Porcher Taylor, a professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, and a scholar at the Wash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ararat Anomaly 1949
Ararat or in Western Armenian Ararad may refer to: Personal names * Ararat ( hy, Արարատ), a common first name for Armenian males (pronounced Ararad in Western Armenian) * Ararat or Araratian, a common family name for Armenian people, Armenians (pronounced Ararad, Araradian in Western Armenian). See Araratyan Places Armenian Highland *Mount Ararat, a mountain and a dormant volcanic cone in Turkey **Greater Ararat, the tallest peak in Turkey, part of Mount Ararat **Little Ararat, the sixth tallest peak in Turkey, part of Mount Ararat *Ararat plain, along the Arax River, in Armenia *Ararat Province, Armenia **Ararat, Armenia, a city in Ararat Province **Ararat (village), Armenia, a village in Ararat Province *Ayrarat, a historical province of Armenia United States *Ararat, North Carolina *Ararat, Virginia *Ararat Township, Pennsylvania *Mount Ararat (Pennsylvania), the highest point in Wayne County, Pennsylvania *Ararat River in Virginia and North Carolina Australia *Ararat, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
