Radar engineer · Person
Engineer and developer of BakhtarRadar, who ran the 2026 radar survey at Durupınar for Noah's Ark Scans.
2 claimed · 4 disputed
In a Charisma interview Andrew Jones said the case for Durupınar is strong but "not at 100", described threats and a break-in, and said he expects excavation permits sooner rather than later.
In a GlobeNewswire press release, Noah's Ark Scans said charred wood was recovered almost 30 feet deep in the Durupınar formation and sent for carbon-14 dating and species identification, and that Prof. Cenker Atila had reviewed and confirmed Khosrow Bakhtar's preliminary radar results.
In a LifeSiteNews interview, Noah's Ark Scans fundraising and marketing lead Lauren Witzke said "the Ark is real, the global flood happened" and that textbooks would have to be rewritten, and responded to critics of the drilling and radar work.
In an X post, Lauren Witzke of Noah's Ark Scans said Prof. Cenker Atila had "reviewed and confirmed" Khosrow Bakhtar's radar report as an official part of the study, and that the report proved the formation is a man-made, three-tiered structure.
Andrew Jones told the Jerusalem Post that none of the 16 boreholes hit bedrock, which he sees as favouring the Ark view, while Prof. Cenker Atila said a radar void "can be a geological hole" and declined to call it a corridor.
Noah's Ark Scans released a preliminary report in which radar developer Dr. Khosrow Bakhtar said BakhtarRadar imaged an organised, non-geological structure with corridors and chambers beneath the formation.