The mainstream media has spent decades telling you Noah's Ark is a fairy tale.
Now an American research team in Turkey has found something buried underground that the skeptics never saw coming.
Andrew Jones just announced his next move – and it has the potential to change everything believers have been waiting for.
Underground Scans at Turkey's Durupinar Formation Reveal a Structure That Wasn't Supposed to Exist
Andrew Jones and his Noah's Ark Scans team have been working the Durupınar Formation near Mount Ararat for years – a boat-shaped landform sitting 6,500 feet above sea level, first spotted by a Turkish military captain in aerial photographs in 1959.
Skeptics wrote it off as a hill.
Then Jones ran ground-penetrating radar across the site and found tunnels four meters down – roughly two meters high – running straight down the center of the formation and along the inside edge of what looks like a hull.
"We really believe that this layout, showing tunnels and also possible support beams and walls, would suggest that it's a man-made object and not just a natural formation," Jones told Fox & Friends First this week.
He's not guessing.
The site stretches 515 feet – the precise length the Book of Genesis records for the Ark, calculated from 300 Egyptian cubits.
The team also ran infrared thermography scans, a heat-sensing technique that detects hidden structures underground, which showed a buried vessel shape deep beneath the surface.
And the soil told a story.
His team pulled 88 samples from inside and outside the formation in 2024.
The results were striking: organic matter inside ran three times higher than soil pulled from just outside the boundary.
"We have the ship shape, and we're in the right location, and now we're also seeing that the soil inside is different from right outside the formation," Jones said. "So it's a distinct object and not just part of the mountainside."
Potassium levels inside the formation ran unusually high – exactly what you would expect from thousands of years of decomposing timber.
Noah's Ark Tunnels Are Next – and a Robot Is Going In
Jones isn't stopping at radar scans.
His team is designing a remote-controlled robotic device that will descend into the tunnels to film the interior and collect samples directly from the structure.
The tunnels converge on a central chamber Jones calls the atrium – and he believes the layout matches the biblical description of the Ark's three internal decks, built to shelter Noah's family and the animals brought aboard.
Jones isn't rushing – because he understands exactly what's at stake.
"Once you dig a hole and remove material, you can't put it back," the Noah's Ark Scans website states.
This is the find of a lifetime, and he's treating it that way.
Why the 2026 Noah's Ark Discovery Is Different From Every Search Before It
People have been hunting for Noah's Ark since at least the 19th century.
British explorer James Bryce climbed Ararat in 1876 and found a piece of worked wood far above the tree line.
The Institute for Creation Research mounted expeditions through the 1970s and 1980s.
Former astronaut Jim Irwin personally led a search team up the mountain in 1982.
None of them had what Jones has: advanced geophysical technology that can map what's underground without touching it.
The combination of matching dimensions, radar-confirmed internal structure, anomalous soil chemistry is something the previous generation of searchers could only dream about.
Every expedition before Jones was essentially guessing.
He has the data.
"I do believe that this is the real, decayed, buried remains of Noah's Ark, the famous ship. And we're doing our best to convince the skeptics and show the world this site," Jones said.
The skeptics have had their say for decades.
Now a robot is about to go into those tunnels – and whatever it finds, the answer will no longer be something either side can argue around.
Sources:
- Max Bacall, "Researcher Believes Noah's Ark Found in Turkey After New Underground Scans," Fox News, April 22, 2026.
- Stacy Liberatore, "Noah's Ark Mystery Deepens as Underground Tunnels Found in Turkey Mountain Match Bible Blueprint," Daily Mail, April 20, 2026.
- "New Findings Strengthen Case for Noah's Ark Location in Mount Ararat, Turkey," Greek Reporter, April 23, 2026.
- "Archaeology Breakthrough as Researcher Blows Lid on Discovery Which Could Prove Noah's Ark Was Real," GB News, April 20, 2026.