Case file · High strangeness
Astronaut James Irwin on Ararat
Apollo 15 moonwalker James Irwin led several expeditions to Mount Ararat in search of Noah's ark between 1982 and 1986; in 1982 he was badly injured in a fall.
1982 CE · 39.70, 44.30 · status: claim
The account
Irwin became an evangelist after his flight and founded the High Flight Foundation. In 1984 Turkish authorities briefly detained him on suspicion of espionage.
The sceptical view
His teams found nothing.