Researcher Convinced He's Found Noah's Ark Delivers a Message for Critics

Billy Hallowell : Oct 9, 2026
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"People are criticizing us right now. I just say, be patient. Hold on. We're doing this with a scientific team. It's a multi-year project. We still have to get the soil analysis done. We'll go where the data goes. So we just ask people to be patient and see what we find." -Andrew Jones, Noah's Ark Scans

[Faithwire.com] An independent researcher who has devoted his life to exploring a site near Mount Ararat, believed by some to be the remains of Noah's ark, is continuing his expedition to investigate what he believes could be the real-life location. (Screengrab image: via Fox News)

Andrew Jones, who runs Noah's Ark Scans, a group he described as "a loose organization of individuals interested in pursuing scientific work and promoting [the ark site]," told CBN News his organization received a permit to drill at the site and has been actively engaged in exploring the area.

"This whole project is under Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey, and I'm one of the vice presidents of the project," Jones said. "The president is Professor Dr. Cenkur Atila, an archaeologist in Turkey, and he's the one who got the permits for the project. The other vice president for the project has a PhD in archaeology."

The researcher said other professionals are involved as well, sharing these details to push back on critics he said have accused him of being a lone wolf who's "taking pictures and making up stuff."

Jones said technology is allowing them to look 95 meters beneath the surface, deeper than the team has ever gone. He believes this could yield better clues about whether Noah's Ark is truly underground, though he and his team haven't yet been shown a full analysis of the findings.

"[Researchers are] seeing anomalies like right angles—some of the same things we were seeing with the 2019 traditional radar," Jones said. "[Our researcher is] saying the same thing, anomalies that are associated with right angles, corridors, but which could be backfilled with silt, he said, but they're showing... this pattern of a structure below the surface."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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