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A private research group announced on Wednesday that new radar scans of the Durupınar Formation in Turkey’s Ağrı Province show a large man-made structure underground. Noah’s Ark Scans released a preliminary report claiming the 515-foot boat-shaped mound contains a “man-made object” with corridors, chambers and hallways, not solid natural rock. The findings have not been peer reviewed, and geologists have long described the site as a natural formation.

What the Radar Showed

The scans were run by Dr Khosrow Bakhtar, an engineer who spent decades building detection systems for US defense agencies, including the Air Force, Navy and NORAD. He used a system he invented, called BakhtarRadar, which was originally built to find buried tunnels and hidden structures. The team wanted to know whether the mound was solid natural rock or a built structure with rooms inside.

According to the report, the images showed repeating lines and angles, open passageways, corridors, chambers and hallway-like spaces running the length of the mound. Bakhtar said the images do not look like ordinary rock, mudflow or a solid natural hill in Turkey.

In a statement to the Daily Mail, Bakhtar said the radar is designed to screen out ordinary features such as rock and to pick up buried structures, open spaces and man-made materials. The complex patterns still appeared strongly, so the team concluded the object is not a natural geological formation.

“Natural ground does not organize itself into corridors, chambers and hallways,” Bakhtar said. “The system was built to separate buried structure from host geology, tunnels, voids, worked materials, discontinuities. That is what it is seeing here. A solid geological mass would not have returned this signature.”

He was careful about what the scans can and cannot say. “Whatever the object is beneath the surface is extraordinary,” he said. “In forty years of this work, I have never seen anything like it. It could be a ship. It could be a spaceship. What I can say from the radar is that it is organized, it is structural, and a solid geological mass would not have returned such a strong signature.”

Bakhtar did not say the structure is Noah’s Ark. He said it is organized and structural, and he left the question of what it is open.

Core Drilling Is Underway

Physical sampling began in late September 2026 under a Turkish university-led field program. The first holes hit a very hard layer about 12 to 15 feet down inside the formation. Those samples are being sent to outside labs for testing.

The team told the Daily Mail earlier that core drilling also found a layer rich in organic material. Researchers are testing it to see whether it contains decayed wood.

The full radar scan is expected to be finished by November 2026. More lab results will follow later.

The Next Test Is Animal DNA

The group ties the site to the Book of Genesis, where the flood story says a catastrophic flood destroyed life on earth. Some biblical chronologies place that flood more than 4,300 years ago. In Genesis 6:19-20, God tells Noah to bring male and female pairs of each kind of animal onto the ark so they could survive.

Noah’s Ark Scans says the next major step is testing for animal DNA inside the structure. The group is in talks with scientists who specialize in recovering and reconstructing ancient and extinct animal DNA from deteriorating material. That includes old bones, teeth and other remains buried for thousands of years.

Andrew Jones, vice president of the Noah’s Ark Research Project and founder of Noah’s Ark Scans, made the announcement on Wednesday. “We now know we are looking at a massive, 515-foot, boat-shaped man-made structure with organized patterns and corridors in the Mountains of Ararat, where Genesis places the Ark,” he said.

Jones also said what the group still has to prove. “The challenge is how we prove this is the vessel that preserved living creation through a catastrophic flood,” he said. “That proof will not come from another scan. It will come from identifying and confirming ancient animal DNA inside the voids Dr Bakhtar mapped inside the structure.”

That statement sets the standard the team has chosen for itself. By Jones’s own account, radar images alone will not settle the question.

A Site With a Long Dispute

A Turkish Army captain named İlhan Durupınar spotted the formation in an aerial photo in October 1959, during a NATO mapping mission, and the site later took his name. A group that surveyed it in September 1960 spent two days digging and dynamiting inside the boat-shaped formation and found only soil and rocks. WikipediaWikipedia

Geologists assert that the formation is entirely natural, though they have nominated it as geological heritage. The new claims challenge that view, but they rest on the group’s interpretation of data from its own radar system. No independent scientists have reviewed the report yet. wikipedia

Several results could change that. Lab tests on the hard layer and the organic layer could show whether the material is wood or rock. A finished radar scan would give the team a full map to compare against the preliminary images. Animal DNA, if any is found, would be the strongest evidence the group has named so far. Outside review of any of these results would decide whether the claim holds up.

What Happens Next

Noah’s Ark Scans says the radar shows a built structure with corridors and chambers inside a 515-foot mound in eastern Turkey. Dr Bakhtar says the signal is too organized for solid rock. Jones says proof that this is the ark has to come from DNA.

Until then, the open items are concrete. Lab results on the drilled samples are pending, the full radar scan is due in November 2026, and the DNA discussions have not produced a test. Each of those steps will show whether the preliminary report holds up.

A Houston immigration judge has refused to pause deportation proceedings against Anyi Hernandez-Escobar, a Honduran mother of two. Her husband, Patrick Keating, a US citizen from Bellaire, says the family may now have to leave the country. Keating and his parents voted for Donald Trump because they believed his immigration crackdown would remove criminals. They never imagined it would reach their own home.

If Hernandez-Escobar returns to Honduras, she would take the couple’s 16-month-old daughter, Emma, with her. Her seven-year-old son, Daniel, whom Keating has raised since the boy was about 18 months old, might have to stay in the United States.

A Vote the Family Now Questions

Keating and his parents backed Trump at the ballot box, expecting the policies to target criminals and people who posed a threat. Hernandez-Escobar cannot vote, but she supported the promise to remove criminals too.

“There was a lot of crime in the country. I thought it was good to deport the bad people,” she said. “Now, it doesn’t matter if you’re a good person or a bad person.”

Keating says the past months have changed how he sees it. “If I could go back, if my vote would somehow change everything, I’d go back and vote Kamala just so we don’t have to deal with this,” he said.

How the Case Reached a Houston Courtroom

Hernandez-Escobar arrived from Honduras in 2018, eight months pregnant, fleeing what she described as a desperate situation. She was detained for four days after crossing into Texas, then granted parole to stay temporarily.

She reunited with her sister and built a life in Texas. She attended every required immigration check-in and gave birth to Daniel. She later met Keating, and the two married. Keating became a father figure to Daniel, and in May 2025 the couple had Emma.

The couple knew that marrying a US citizen would not automatically give Hernandez-Escobar legal status. They also knew that having American-born children would not by itself stop her removal. They believed they were following the available legal process. In June, after almost two years of waiting, her I-130 and I-130A petitions were approved.

The Ruling That Changed Everything

Then the Houston judge rejected her request to temporarily close her removal proceedings while she pursued the next stage of her application.

Her attorney, Jennifer Lopez, said the decision followed a June agreement between Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Department of Justice. The agreement ended a Biden-era policy that let immigration judges administratively close certain cases.

Lopez said the judge had previously signaled he would close the case. “Originally, the judge had told her, when Biden was in, ‘Go ahead and file your I-130, come back to me and I will administratively close your case,'” Lopez said. “They did that, but by the time they got back to him, Trump had been sworn in and they had changed all the rules.”

Why Leaving May Be the Only Path

Hernandez-Escobar entered the country without authorization, so she cannot simply stay in America while applying for a green card. Under the route Lopez described, she would have to go to Honduras and seek an immigrant visa through the US consular process. She would also need a waiver of inadmissibility.

That waiver is available only to immigrants who are not in removal proceedings. Administrative closure would have taken Hernandez-Escobar out of that position for a time. Without it, Lopez says, the family may have little choice but to relocate to Honduras, nearly 2,000 miles from their home.

Daniel’s Uncertain Future

The move raises a second problem. Daniel may not be able to go with his mother.

Keating has no legal custodial rights over the boy. Daniel’s biological father lives in Maryland. He has reportedly refused to surrender his rights and does not communicate with his son.

“I’ve raised him basically since he was a year and a half, but I have no custodial rights over him,” Keating said. “Only Anyi and his biological father do. But both parents have to sign off on the passport.”

The family is paying a family-law attorney to look into whether Keating can adopt Daniel. They are also weighing whether Daniel could stay with his grandparents if his mother, stepfather and baby sister leave.

Keating’s worst fear is what happens if neither option works. “The scary part would be that Daniel can get lost in the legal foster care system, or somehow end up with a man he doesn’t know,” he said.

A Grandmother Who Still Supports Trump, With Limits

Ingrid, Keating’s mother, may end up raising Daniel as she and her husband approach retirement. Neither expected that.

“We’ll do what it takes to get through this,” she said. “It’s been very stressful because we know it stresses their family. It is a different world from what my husband and I anticipated.”

She has not turned against the president. “I still like a lot of what he’s done, though not everything,” she said. “When you’re going for the gang members and closing the borders, I think that’s really important.”

She does say the case changed how she thinks about immigration. “Immigration has been such a mess for so many years, but of course it’s easy not to pay too much attention when it’s not your immediate family,” she said. “Now, all of a sudden, it really brings it home.”

One point she will not bend on is Daniel. “Daniel needs to be with his parents and his sister,” she said. “He loves them dearly. He loves us, but as his grandparents. But children need to be with their parents.”

What Happens Next

The judge’s refusal leaves Hernandez-Escobar in removal proceedings, which blocks the waiver she needs. The only route her attorney has described runs through Honduras.

Two questions remain open. One is whether Keating can legally adopt Daniel. The other is whether the boy’s biological father will sign off on a passport or give up his rights. Until both are settled, the family cannot say whether they would leave together or split across two countries.