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In 1948, an earthquake in Turkey disgorged the remains of what
is believed to be the original Ark of Man - Noahs' Ark.

A military overflight taking photographs of the landscape for
reconaissance purposes noted a strange new pattern in the form
of a giant ship.

David Fasold, an ex-Merchant Marine and amateur archeologist
heard stories about the Ark and became intriqued with this
particular one. After years of research and spending in
excess of $150,000 of his own money, David has confirmed that
this is the true ARK of Noah. A book is currently out, "The
Ark of Noah", published in 1988 by Wynwood Press of New York.

� The ISBN number is 0-922066-10-8 and it can be ordered from
most book suppliers such as Taylors or Waldenbooks.
David tells us it is soon to come out in paperback.

The hardback version sells for $18.95.

BUY IT, you will not regret the purchase!


Mr. Fasolds' discovery of the ARK of Noah has been verified
by some of the top scientists in the field. Mr. Ron Wyatt
from Madison, Tennessee one of the top scientists in the
country on sub-surface radar research, Dr. John Baumgardner
from Los Alamos research center, Mr. Vendyl Jones
(A.K.A. Indiana Jones)., and many others who we will not
list.

David makes no claims as to actually discovering the Ark.
He rediscovered it after many other researchers had pronounced
the site as not the remains of a ship, but a geological
formation.

The true discoverer of the Ark is a Turkish farmer named
Reshit Sarihan. An earthquake occurred in 1948 which
shifted the ground where the Ark had rested all these
centuries.

At that time, not much notice was taken of the exposed
shape until a military photo reconaissance overflight took
pictures which showed the shape of a very large ship.

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However, David did make the contacts and do the quite
incredible amount of research necessary to locate and
verify his site as the TRUE ARK of NOAH.

He has spent over $100,000 of his own money and in excess of
6 years on the ARK project. We consider ourselves
extremely fortunate to have been allowed to meet such a
fascinating and capable researcher as David Fasold. His
work is currently unappreciated and not even suspected by the
masses.

It seems orthodox Christianity MUST FIND THE ARK ON THE
MOUNT OF ARARAT TO VERIFY THEIR FAITH. In truth, the
translations in the Bible have been so in error that many
people searching for these wonderful historical treasures have
been led astray.

The primary problem has been their failure to consult other
ancient texts concurrent with the event. Corruption of
records takes on an almost logarthmic certainty as time
passes.

Each ruler wants history to begin with him or to alter
past history to his views.

This is one of the things we most admired about David, his
tenacity and his wide ranging research efforts. He consulted
dozens of texts including the Torah, the Koran, the Epic
of Gilgamesh and many others to piece together the true
location.

David visited with us in October of 1989 in Dallas. We were
with him on several occasions while he lectured with Vendyl
Jones at various engagements around the country using
Arlington (Vendyl's home) as a base.

David is so fascinating that we had to have a mini meeting of
interested friends and associates to share some of his
experiences. He brought with him maps, 2 pieces of the ARK,
many photographs and some videotape of his discovery. The
pieces of the ARK were most interesting as they were almost
petrified wood with highly oxidized iron fragments. David
said these came directly from the ARK site.

David has been working in conjunction with the Turkish
government to arrange summer tours for those who might wish to
visit the Noah's Ark site.

If you ever get a chance to hear him speak or to meet or
speak with him, DON'T PASS IT UP! He will hypnotize and
enthrall you with his anecdotes and the recounting of his
discovery of the ARK.

I - Jerry Decker, had the privilege of attending the
1989 International Geophysical Symposium as a guest of
Vendyl Jones and David Fasold.

Both gave presentations which simply mesmerized these
Engineers and Scientists from all over the world. It was

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truly amazing to see how these people very technically
oriented clustered around both David and Vendyl to ask
questions about their archeological researches.

Another thing that David has noted which we all find very
interesting is that the day of the earthquake in 1948 is the
same date that Israel became a nation, just as in
Biblical prophecy!

David found an interesting Egyptian myth which tells the
story of how the Moon was coerced into sharing some of its
light. In fact, it had to do with a slowing down of the
Earth's rotation which, since it is a giant armature,
necessarily reduced the magnetic field.

Zecharia Sitchin's excellent books also give many
translations relating to events in pre-dawn times.

Also why did people live such long life spans as compared
with people of today. Is it possible that the slowing down
of the Earth's rotation caused a change in the human body's
electric field due to the decreased magnetism?

Is this why the Dinosaurs died out?

Or could it be that one who had eaten of the "AMOMUM" root
(the root of Youth) as mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh:

" Its name is The Old Will Be Made Young. "

I too will eat it, and I will return to
What I Was In My Youth."

( These are some of the questions into which we of
Vangard Sciences are interested and looking into.)

Mr. Fasolds' book can be purchased at any book store or
you can write to him.

ADDRESS: Mr. David Fasold
9921 Carmel Mtn. Rd.
San Diego, Ca. 92129

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N O A H ' S A R K U P D A T E

We have been in communication with Dave Fasold. He has sent some
very interesting information. Following is a letter and selective
comments. I want to thank Dave for his support and encouragement.

12/14/89

Dear Dave and Sandra,

Rushing this off to you as promised, as I have a busy schedule this
weekend. Have to go up to LA and do some voice overs for the PBS
film which looks like MARCH airing. Also meeting with two tour
companies for the Ark trips and both want exclusive!

Enjoyed your latest GAP and keep it up. I'll try to write on
something else next time. Wearing my Tennessee T-shirt proudly and
thinking of you both. Keep researching....edit away at my article!

Your shipmate aboard the mother-ship,

Well it's that time of year again folks. The perennial seeding
of Mount Ararat with sightings of the Ark left to germinate over
the long winter months.

For those Boob-Tube Believers who like to split their offering
between the Fund-O-Faith Growth and Income Network and the Cathedral
of Reciprocity looking forward to their Seeds of Faith Multiplying
into getting that cruise and Mercedes, it may not leave much left
over to support the Ararat Groups in their yearly mountian climbing
v cation at Christendom's expense, but that's what they are crying
for again.

The latest sighting was announced in the TURKISH DAILY NEWS under
the headline of "Turks angered by Americans' claim of discovery of
the Ark."

ANKARA- Agri Governor Rasim Bas and a Turkish scholar exploring for
the legendary Noah's Ark disputed, Friday, claims by two Americans
that they have discovered Noah's Ark on the southside of Mt. Ararat
in eastern Turkey while flying over it in a helicopter.

"What the two said to reporters have no connection whatsoever with
science and have no scientific value," the angry governor said,
adding that it was impossible to announce a discovery only by taking
photographs and flying over a region.

What had Church Aaron, the pilot said? Aaron said, "We are 100% sure
this is the Ark."

Atatuck associate professor Salih Bayraktutan, who heads a
commission exploring Noah's Ark said the sole "scientific data" at
hand shows that remains at the Uzengili village (my site) which
have been place under state protection were the remains of the Ark.

He said the physical findings and scientific report on the issue
will be published in 1990. Bayraktutan went on to say that
"Americans were trying to prove the variability of the Holy Bible

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against the Holy Koran by finding the Ark and displaying `how
correct' the Bible was.

Many Christian fundamentalists who interpret the Bible literally,
believe the Ark must be on Mt. Ararat." He also said "Americans are
exploiting the issue," and that "all foreigners who claim to be
looking for the Ark have a Christian fundamentalist organization
supporting them."

As always with these kind of articles, reporters find someone with a
sheepskin in earth sciences and quote him saying my site is nothing
but a rock formation shaped by thousands of years of erosion.

I would lay five to one odds that this geologist has never been to
my site, would dispute there ever was a flood or even care to know
that the object has been exposed for a MERE 41 years!

Another Turkish newspaper picked up the flurry and said tongue-in-
cheek that now Turkey boasts TWO ARKS, and provides a verG detailed
list of Christendoms' false claim of discovery over the past 140
years.

Believe me, the issue is not whether the Ark can be in two places
at once or the possibility of two Arks. It runs much deeper than
that.

Before leaving Turkey, Aaron and Garby implored the Minister of
Antiquities to insure that the area of the find be protected from
any disturbance whatsoever, possibly relating their fear that George
Vandeman might attempt to dislodge pieces of gopher wood by blowing
the sides out with dynamite (AON, p.33)

Now how do I feel about this? For one thing, befuddled that after
four years of on site research with geologists and geophysicists 17
miles south, and 27 years in the maritime industries, the claim
that I am on a shipwreck is thwarted by an astronaut who says, "I'd
like it looked at by experts" suggesting my opinions are impetuous
and premature, but let a pharmacist and pilot hang out of a
helicopter and peer into an ice cave formed by a lava vent and it's
acceptable to say "We are 100% sure" we are looking into the bowels
of the Ark!

While my site has been officially declared by the Turkish Government
as the remains of the Ark, Irwin calling for an expert's opinion at
this late date seems a little odd.

Soon after leaving the conference, Vendyl was good enough to share
his podium at the fifty-ninth Annual International Meeting and
Exposition of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists at the Dallas
Convention Center with me, where I gave a luncheon address on the
discovery of the remains of the wreck.

Stressing the scientific data and the instrumentation put to use, it
was well received, and I continue receiving mail on the subject.

I feel that if one can pass scrutiny of THESE EXPERTS as well as
convince the Turks, I should have proved my case....astronauts
opinions not with-standing.


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Never the less, the December issue of the Bible-Science Newsletter
heralded the discovery complete with a photo of the `Ark' on the
southside of Ararat.

I was surprised to see it was the prominent outcropping of lava
easily seen through binoculars from the roof of the Isfahan Hotel.

Christendom's explorations are going high-tech now, with whirly-
birds at $500.00 an hour (it costs $8,000 just to get it to Ararat
and back) and the two are seeking funds ($30,000.00) to get an
airborne radar, so this is a desperate appeal to prove the Bible
true.

There are a number of guides who have sat on this lava balcony, and
even been inside the depression (a small cave of sorts, not the
insides of the Ark) leaving me wonder "why the charade?"

Within this bunch, there is a kind of pecking order, a sort of
jockeying for position of Inspector # 12, you remember the Hanes
underwear factory...if its not passed by #12, it ain't Hanes?

Well, John Morris had held this position for years, chiefly due to
his status as vice president of Creation Research and Creation Life
Publishers.

If you want to fill the heads of little children with Biblical
truths such as "All of the various kinds of land dinosaurs were on
the Ark with the rest of the animals" (Noah's Ark and the Lost World
by John D. Morris, 1988 page 17) or publish your own pet theory as a
tenant of Christian faith, then one should go along with Morris as
the expert.

He took a look at the site and said, "I don't really think it is the
Ark." His traveling companion was Grant Richards, another geologist
that after viewing the site from the air said, "it appears to be a
volcanic feature," following up with it was "an unusual feature!"

Now folks! I know it is unusual to find volcanic features on
volcanic mountains, and I'll admit I'm mystified myself, but I am
taking bets at five-to-one odds, that this (lava vent) isn't Noah's
Ark, and furthermore I intend to stay in Turkey all summer of 1990
taking tours to the REAL ARK waiting for these vicars of truth to
prove me wrong!

Let me repeat, that it is not a biblical truth, that the Ark is on
Ararat. Ararat is a land and a kingdom by biblical definition, and
a very mountainous land and kingdom, and any mountain will do.

I challenge anyone to show me a document written prior to the 12th
century C.E. stating the Ark is on Ararat.

This is Armenian/Christian nonsense and for those who believe in
such things, they should study the letter by Sbgar, king of Armenia,
to Jesus, the benevolent Savior, and his reply, penned by the
Apostle Thomas (Bishop Ukhtanes of Sebastia's HISTORY OF ARMENIA)
for a better laugh!

It is here we can see so clearly, that history is a myth agreed upon
that for a great part is accepted without any substance or evidence.

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A hodge-podge of theol gical nonsense that has been building since
Constantine's time and carried around as so much Byzantine baggage
by believers without any critical examination as to the truth of it.

The most faith shaking study of all, is the history of the church
since those times, and with it has taught us to accept these as
tenets of the Christian faith.

The emphasis here for the continued search for the Ark on Ararat,
has been correctly deduced in the Turkish Press by Bayraktutan.

Bayraktutan sees this quest as Christian fundamentalists
capitalizing on the search as an evangelical tool, to bring millions
to Christ.

It is my view that Christendom wouldn't recognize the Ark if they
were standing on it or Christ, if they came face to face with the
long lost Rabboni Yeshua Ben Yosef.

Let me say in closing how much I enjoyed being the guest of the
Emmanuel Baptist Church and David and Sandra Davis over the
conference period.

You all have been most warm in receiving me and my heretical notions
and I am proud to feel that I am one among you during these trying
times of religious fictions that understandably are driving many
rationally-minded people out of religion altogether.

I support the line-upon-line examinations of David Davis and Jack
Saunders and dearly hope that Rabbi Katz will continue to guide us
along the path of the righteous Gentile.

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