CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents -
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Published on: 3/27/2006
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The team consisted of Clifford Paiva, a retired senior physicist and satellite imagery analyst of the U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center, Countermeasures Technologies Applications Branch; Farouk El-Baz, who heads the prestigious Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University; Peter K. Hsu, a forensic Naval engineer who worked on the Titanic and Bismarck forensic teams for National Geographic; Brad Miller, an experienced mechanical and manufacturing engineer skilled in evaluating spatial representation of 3-D objects; David Barak, a digital-imaging expert who worked as a military-photo and submarine target-recognition interpreter for the U.S. Navy; and Roman Gomez, a digital-imagery expert formerly with Dicomed, a leading U.S. supplier of electronic hardware.
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While Paiva says it could be "geological," he tells Insight it is more likely a man-made structure because of the 90-degree angles.
He also notes that there is "nearly 300 feet depth of ice i in the anomaly area, easily burying an object" the size of the Ark.
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While Paiva believes the anomaly could be artifacts of a village or town of some 3,000 years ago that have been broken into large pieces and scattered across the Western Plateau, El-Baz is convinced it's nothing more than a rock slab.
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While Paiva - who had access to the 1973 KH-9 and 1976 KH-11 hits but refuses to talk about what's in those images because they are classified - he isn't buying the denials.
"There's something up there and that's the only issue," he says.