Radar, soil samples and a boat-shaped ridge: 'Could this be Noah's Ark?'
Andrew Jones of Noah's Ark Scans talks about the Durupinar formation in eastern Turkey, and the comments keep bringing up a name the clip leaves out: Ron Wyatt.
Fox News ClipsStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 782,400 views a day, 68 times a normal first day on this channel (11,430).
Could this be Noah's Ark? Researchers PROBE massive formation in Turkey
"Could this be Noah's Ark?" is a question with a long history, and Fox News Clips has asked it again. The clip, an interview with Andrew Jones, founder of Noah's Ark Scans, passed 460,000 views in its first ten hours. The channel's other new reports, on a missing medical plane off Nantucket and on a Trump campaign tour, are still counting in the thousands.
The subject is the Durupinar formation, a boat-shaped ridge in eastern Turkey near Mount Ararat. Genesis puts the ark's landing in "the mountains of Ararat," which is why the site keeps coming back. The description says researchers are studying the 538-foot shape with ground-penetrating radar and soil samples. The site carries the name of İlhan Durupınar, the Turkish army captain who noticed the outline in aerial photographs in 1959. Many geologists have described it as a natural formation, so every new scan reopens an old argument.
That history is what the comment section is about. Many viewers point out that the site is not news at all. Some remember learning about it as children in the 1990s, and one recalls Leonard Nimoy's "In Search of..." visiting it. A long thread asks why there is no mention of Ron Wyatt, the American amateur archaeologist who promoted the site from the late 1970s. Others answer that nobody is claiming a fresh find, only new evidence from core samples. A few say they are tired of hearing "we found it" before the results are in.
The channel had a slower day than usual overall. On a feed mostly given to politics, crime and breaking news, its loudest clip is a Bible story told with radar.
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I'm 45. I remember learning about this back in the 90's as a child...
@goy4joySee it on YouTubeThe Search for Noah's ark. Was a "In Search of.." episode from a Leonard Nimoy series. They discuss this very site.
@marksolarz3756See it on YouTubeHaven’t we known about this for years?
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- Channel
- Fox News Clips
- Subscribers
- 851,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 5,477,646
- Channel views, pace per day
- 356,661 (on a normal day: 979,159)
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 464,205 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 782,400
The numbers
One clip about a ridge in Turkey ran far ahead of anything else the channel posted this weekend.
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