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Article: HAS NOAH'S ARK BEEN FOUND? Its shape can be seen from outer space. Now this year, a team of explorers hopes to prove that in the mountains of eastern Turkey lie the remains of Noah's Ark.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Byline: NICK CRAVEN
DEEP within the confines of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, are stored case files that even its most experienced agents have been unable to explain. They are marked top secret, and few outside the building are even aware of their existence.
One file that lay hidden there for more than 40 years was labelled 'The Ararat Anomaly' and contained a picture taken by a U.S. spy satellite in 1949 at the height of the Cold War. It showed a grainy image of the summit of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan.
At 15,500ft above sea level, the region had never been explored by man. But ...