Russian aviator Roskovitsky photographed the Ark (Talk.Origins)

Claim CH505.5:


 * In 1916, a story by Vladimir Roskovitsky told how he and other Russian aviators sighted the ark, nearly intact, grounded on the shore of a lake on Ararat. An expedition reached the ark about a month later. Photographs and plans were sent to the czar, but the Bolsheviks overthrew the czar a few days later, and the evidence was lost.


 * Later testimony revealed that that account -- even the name Roskovitsky -- was 95 percent fiction, but other Russian soldiers have told of hearing of an expedition mounted in 1917 to discover Noah's ark, based on something in a lake spotted from the air.

Source: Tim LaHaye and John Morris, 1976. The Ark on Ararat, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Inc. and Creation Life Publishers, pp. 76-87.

CreationWiki response:

LaHaye and Morris recognized that there was a lot of fiction in this account, but included it because there may be some truth behind it.

O aviador russo Roskovitsky fotografou a Arca (Talk.Origins)