Noah's Ark has been found! ... NOT.
No, Dr. Bakhtar has NOT proven that the Durupinar Formation in Turkey is Noah's Ark. That's WILDLY inaccurate. He hasn't released any peer-reviewed or independently-verified research on the current claims, and no academic or technical journal has published anything about this; the current claims are being promulgated by a group with a financial incentive to convince people it's true. In rigorous tests by the military, his ground-penetrating "BakhtarRadar" or "EarthRadar" has consistently identified underground pipes only about 25% of the time, and even those identifications were successful only when the radar had been carefully calibrated to exactly see what they were told it would be finding - in other words, he's doing worse than random chance, and only when he knew exactly what he was looking for, including density and material and specific size of the target. A paper published in IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine says of the 2002 US military tests at Fort A.P. Hill that "The IDA report says the blind tests produced results substantially different from Bakhtar's claims and concluded that EarthRadar's underlying hypothesis about target scattering and image formation was flawed. It specifically concluded that the technology did not offer an improvement over existing systems for UXO detection." The "holes" or "tunnels" that he is currently claiming to have found are entirely consistent with the geological formation that's there; it's a naturally-weathered uplift of a folded sediment layer, and establishes exactly nothing about manmade origins. Previous studies have found nothing other than natural geological formations and rocks. The only peer-reviewed study of the site proved it was entirely natural. This is stuff my dad, a geology nerd, taught me decades ago. Look up "anticline dome." They exist all over the world.