Eyewitness testimonies of Noah's Ark and more.

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In the summer of 1916, during the thaw, Lieutenant Roskovitsky of the
Russian Imperial Air Force noticed a half-frozen lake on the shelf or gully
on the side of Mount Ararat while flying high-altitude test to observe
Turkish troop movements. As they flew nearer to the lake, he saw a half
submerged hull of some sort of ship. He noticed two stubby masts and a flat
catwalk along the top. The following excerpts were taken from Berlitz.In
Roskovitsky's words (from the New Eden Magazine, California, 1939): "We flew
down as close as safety permitted and took several circles around it. We
were surprised when we got close to it, at the immense size of the thing,
for it was as long as a city block, and would compare very favorably in size
to the modern battleships of today. It was grounded on the shore of the
lake, with one-fourth underwater. It had been partly dismantled on one side
near the front, and on the other side there was a great doorway nearly
twenty feet square, but with the other door gone. This seemed quite out of
proportion, as even today, ships seldom have doors even half that large
...."He then told his captain who wanted to be flown over the site. The
captain stated that it was Noah's Ark and explained the reason for its
survival as "frozen up for nine of ten months of the year, it couldn't rot,
and has been in cold storage, as it were, all this time .... "The captain
forwarded a report back to St. Petersburg resulting in orders from the Tsar
to send two engineering companies up the mountain. One group of fifty men
attacked one side, and the other group of one hundred men attacked the big
mountain from the other side. Two weeks of hard work were required to chop
out a trail along the cliffs of the lower part of the mountain, and it was
nearly a month before the Ark was reached. Complete measurements were taken,
and plans drawn of it, as well as many photographs, all of which were sent
to the Tsar. From the magazine article: "The Ark was found to contain
hundreds of small rooms, and some rooms that were very large, with high
ceilings. The unusually large rooms had a fence of great timbers across
them, some of which were two feet thick, as if designed to hold beasts ten
times the size of elephants. Other rooms were also lined with tiers of
cages, somewhat like what one sees today at a poultry show, only instead of
chicken wire, they had rows of small iron bars along the front. Everything
was heavily painted with a waxlike paint resembling shellac, and the
workmanship of the craft showed all the signs of a high type of
civilization. The wood used throughout was oleander, which belongs to the
cypress family and never rots; which of course, coupled with the fact of its
being frozen most of the time, accounted for its perfect preservation. "The
investigation officers sent photographs and reports by courier back to
Petrograd, to the personal attention of the Tsar. But Nicholas II apparently
never received them during the breakdown of communications that followed the
February and October Revolutions of 1917. The results of the investigation
have never been found or reported.. A rumor says the results and pictures of
the Ark came to the attention of Leon Trotsky, who either destroyed them or
placed them in a file destined to be kept permanently secret. And the
courier who delivered the news, his silence was sealed with his execution.

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