Mysterious Rings in the Namib Desert | What On Earth? (Full Episode)
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Weird barren rings in the Namib Desert, an island the size of Manhattan that vanishes without trace and a lost city in the heart of the Amazonian jungle.
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Passes a gas detecting device over the circle for 3 seconds, "nope no gas". Here's an idea, set up gas detecting equipment that can monitor 24/7 and monitor a circle for a week or two so we have a larger sample size then 3 seconds?
Louder sound effects are needed for this show.
Possible answer: There are boulders under the ground, some few feet to maybe dozens, the rock holds more heat than the surrounding area, therefore vegetation dies as vapor goes up...it may be many giant rocks underground or similar....
The first thing it reminded me of is ringworm! The patterns and texture is so amazingly similar. An earthly virus or parasite infection in the soil? The colors and texture in the photos are gorgeous! I'd love to go shoot some landscapes there with a good drone!
@MimiJoys
4 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure that shooting it with a Drone would actually kill the virus... But hey, more power to you for trying! 😉
So Called expert: "The amazing thing is they are all perfect circles of grass" Zoom out camera to a bunch of egg shapes, and spooge marks
@theautodan7095
4 жыл бұрын
So many ridiculous claims around phenomenon that deserves real researchers... Their ridiculous remarks takes credibility away from the realiry if these situations... The rings cover a massive area, meaning something very significant is there and they change size. the island was seen and purposely blacked out via satellite! Why even mention crazy theories thatvare so unrelated..? Can we get real researchers on this? Where are the flat earthers? Theyll get to the bottom of this. 😂😆
@jamesbonde4470
4 жыл бұрын
You mis-spelled splooge.
@DNMEBOY
4 жыл бұрын
Barbs H444 Well, they did call them perfect circles and rings over and over again in the video and egg shaped is neither of those things. By your logic an oval would also be a perfect circle yet it’s called an oval not circle. A perfect circle literally means just that. A perfect circle. Not a line meeting at each end.
@tjkaz5419
4 жыл бұрын
I really wanted to ignore her comment. However, you Joe made a valid point. So is an octagon a perfect circle now? No. A triangle meets all sides so we change the laws? ,No.
@tjkaz5419
4 жыл бұрын
You mis-spelled, misspelled the irony .
Hey...if sea levels rise an island could dissapear but if sea levels lower an island could reappear. Holy shit science lady...who knew?
I saw a circle on the radar lile this a few years ago in northwest Louisiana. There was snow coming from northeast texas . as the snow storm hit the perimeter of the circle, it disapated.the snow never made it to Louisiana. Whats disturbing is that the public is seemingly oblivious to this and so much more.
I think u will find that the circles are caused by the Grass which forms the rings. Consider a plant which flowers and leaves new plants all around it. They spread in a growing circle around it. this is normal and what all plants do. but this grass also kills the ground it grows in. sucking too much water and nutrients from the ground. this leaves the center as a growing area of fallow ground inside the ring - as the plants keep expanding into new ground outside the resulting expanding ring. This may be just an example of edge case emergent behavior due to the plants + soil conditions.
All y’all nit picking in the comments it’s literally a tv show for entertainment chill tf out lmao
@MakerInMotion
3 жыл бұрын
It's the Science Channel.
the last story about the blob object sounds like the Nimitz Encounters with the Tic-Tac's. I am willing to bet they are submersible as well as flyable.
In the desert areas of New Mexico can be found a similar grass anomaly. Those grass rings are much smaller, but very similar. I do not know why they exist, but the grass growing around the perimeter seems to be the same for all the circles. I think the ones in the New Mexico desert have evolved, due to lack of water, the empty area within the center of the circle is somewhat lower than the raised grass at the edge, allowing water to pool in the center, and not run off.
@getaskill8454
4 жыл бұрын
Jeremiah Ellis genius. Depressions created by dioxide so plants can gather moisture. Sounds like Earth to me alright. Plants aren't stupid. They can use ths littlest water to amplify atmospheric pressure to bust things like concrete. Unless plants are aliens...
@viceroybear6298
3 жыл бұрын
Possible left over from large lightning strikes? Look into electric universe siri, the Thunderbolts project they have a video on it I believe in Arizona or New Mexico too
Science Channel, quality mysteries on a steep budget!
Some of these things are just amazingly bizarre, and should be studied 24-7 until we know...
the island was probally a massive submersible top secret remote base
How can anyone be an expert about something they don't know about.
@pompousshitmustdiemowyoure4289
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly. The ilimited expert draws ideas of the DUMBFUK and absolutely becomes the idiot. I've had everything from the creative genius educator to the creative scientific genius as educator in extremely serious discussions. It's pathetic that they'd believe the known IMBECILES of GARBAGECRAPSHIT OVERTSHITBITCHYSKANKYISM. ALL STRANGERS AS IMBECILES!
@pompousshitmustdiemowyoure4289
4 жыл бұрын
@Stella H a woman named Stella AGREED.
@pompousshitmustdiemowyoure4289
4 жыл бұрын
@Stella H Stella agreed in 1991 A.d. verses THEIRSHITBITCHYSKANKY RABID DELIRIUMS 1991 b.c.
@pompousshitmustdiemowyoure4289
4 жыл бұрын
He went, HEY STELLA !
Short attention span theatre: more background noise effects pls. Didn’t bother to show moisture reading outside the circle bc there is none.
@magos_0083
4 жыл бұрын
That scene was funny af
@knottreel
4 жыл бұрын
I quit going to the movies when they began adding the roaring swish every time the cameras panned. I never understood what was making the sound.
@pompousshitmustdiemowyoure4289
4 жыл бұрын
They ask for my theories. If they don't like my educated theories than they're limitedshit. People attack what they are all baffled by. It's called education.
@pompousshitmustdiemowyoure4289
4 жыл бұрын
@@magos_0083 The scene wasn't funny to me. The truthful facts against themselves is detailed. Many people have seriously educated me. Some have been scientific genius known globally. My theories are due to their education as geniuses. Known geniuses internationally. It's pathetic that they'd believe known IMBECILES who try to think as manic obsessivrs AGAINST what I know.
Missing island: 19°14'20"S 159°56'50"E
@Ralphieisthegreatest
4 жыл бұрын
And Elevation 1735 feet. Nothing there but a yellow outline where the island is supposed to be, :/
@leroyk6169
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah it’s on google earth....not missing
@Sithonious
4 жыл бұрын
@@leroyk6169 Google Earth's images are always old. When you go on google earth, you're viewing the past...around 2 years in the past to be more exact.
@anthonywebster2125
4 жыл бұрын
@@Sithonious very true sometimes even older
When You see rings, think fungi. Fairy rings in lawns, but in this case, a desert.
@kwradar12
4 жыл бұрын
No moisture was detected in the ground, fungus needs moisture.
@OB17358
4 жыл бұрын
Kim Winders there are plants in the photo. Some fungi do exist in sandy dry desert soils. Coccydiomycosis is one example.
@wesleywells999
4 жыл бұрын
The fungus takes all of the moisture.when probed golf course greens are completely dry inside ring and that's a sand and petemoss mixture
@MimiJoys
4 жыл бұрын
When you see rings, think Uranus, there's rings there too! 😁 Gasses have been known to bubble to the surface and leak out too! 😨
@wesleywells999
4 жыл бұрын
@@MimiJoys good thing no moisture was detected on uranus too lol
I really like this show it’s interesting!
@douglashanlon1975
4 жыл бұрын
see my comments above
*_the rings are like the craters on the moon_*
That's what I'm saying. It looks like the earth has a rash.
Thank You for some truth in our lives.
The locals straight up told you what those circles were! You should listen to people who are from the area- they know more than you.
@leydenfisher7807
4 жыл бұрын
End Times - Get Out while you can...
@SuperChimcham
4 жыл бұрын
leyden fisher where we gonna go?
@leydenfisher7807
4 жыл бұрын
Chandylands: Where you go is determined by Who You Are and What You Believe,,,, The Most High God Is Faithful to His People,,,,, He honors His Word Over His Name....
Lost gear, good logging operations not only cut the wood and take it to Lumber Mills and paper mills. They also go back and plant new trees afterwards. Harvesting Lumber does not work by burning the trees to the ground. You were talking about something completely different. Many farmers in Latin America burn off the forest to plow up the land and plow under the Ash to make it more fertile. I feel they do this in excess of what is truly needed to produce Foods.
Area 51 "It doesn't look like any aircraft I've ever seen." Me: well, yeah! ITS AREA 51! Top secret military testing, secure perimeter, with deadly force authorized. Strictly enforced no-fly zone. Even other nearby military forces don't know what goes on there. Many aircraft were developed there that were cutting edge tech and look completely unlike any other aircraft on the planet. Thats one reason, I believe, so many UFO sighting are in Nevada. Cutting edge military craft never before seen by anyone outside the test range.
@mattysee24
4 жыл бұрын
Have you seen the VZ-9AV Avrocar? That thing was tested in the 50s, it was a silver flying saucer shaped hovercraft
The natives planted that grass in them circles. On wet years, the grass grew and the neighbors used to weave the grass. They used the circles to keep in and protect their fighting chickens! So easy to figure out.
@knottreel
4 жыл бұрын
That's racist, Just kidding, LOL
@20:25: The cloud seeding patterns are real and can be seen here in Simi Valley California. The US Air Force creates a checker board pattern, in a day or two the patterns turn to clouds and you have heavy rains for 1-5 days. It leaves our swimming pool with a top layer of an oily greenish orange substance. Our dogs won't even drink the outside water. We have video and pictures of these events.
Hmmmmm my father was stationed just outside of Melbourne Aust. back in the 1960's. His squadron was a weather recon squad, hmmmmmmm
Is weather Geo-engineering what happened with Dorian?
@KennyMcCormick99
4 жыл бұрын
IDK about that... However, I wouldn't doubt it for a second if they had that technology to that extent.
@richj2709
4 жыл бұрын
Damien X weather engineering has been going on since the Vietnam War where they made it rain on the Vietnam Army to get their vehicles stuck in the mud to slow their response time Scientists have admitted to this
Giant Sandworms!
@michellemullin7127
4 жыл бұрын
grabitz 🤣
El Dorado: So, what are they waitin' fer?
We finally know the name of "The Island" in Lost, a question finally answered woot!!
The Bible does NOT say that the Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat! (33:39) It says that it came to rest on the MOUNTAINS (plural) of Ararat. So, it MIGHT be on Mt. Ararat, or it might be on one of the OTHER mountains in the same chain.
I like biologist Rob Nelson. I could listen to him all day!
According to the Sumerian text on the great flood as translated by Irving Finkel the ark was a round vessel and not shaped like a conventional boat. Check out Irving Finkel of the British Museum.
Could Sandy Island have been just a sandbar and not an island? Or one of those floating islands that are made of biological matter...can't remember the term for it. Great Video! One of the better ones.
@TheRealUnknown01
4 жыл бұрын
More then likely just a military submarine
Why hasnt anyone dug down into the center of those rings? Or has anyone??🤓
@jordanboss2403
4 жыл бұрын
My question exactly.
@TwigJitsu
4 жыл бұрын
Or, transplant the soil to see if it sustains life elsewhere.
@gailhandschuh1138
4 жыл бұрын
They are trusting the CIA desk jockeys to analyze a photo ?? I LIVE IN THE US AND NEVER TRUST WHAT THEY SAY !! The CIA have been proven wrong so many times that now everything they touch turns out to be a lie to the world and they tell the world they are positive it is Ruth.
It looks evenly distributed, i wonder if these grass communities formed these rings as an efficient way to funnel and share water, grass does look thicker on edges.
@johndowe7003
4 жыл бұрын
they look like those mushroom feiries
Dude I found these on google earth years ago, can't wait to learn what they are
Love the channel
@christopherlohse7976
4 жыл бұрын
Chanel 100
Wow. What a way to discredit Tesela from the Philadelphia experiment. Video's validity lost
OMGGGG, WITH THE CAMERA ZOOM SOUND....
@JillyBean860
4 жыл бұрын
I can't unhear it now lolol
@KennyMcCormick99
4 жыл бұрын
You must get irritated quite easily! Send my regards to your boyfriend/husband! (😂) J/K, J/K
I saw an age progression of this missing island on the back of a milk carton... UGH!!
Amazing
i see those same rings in the Mojave desert
Fairy circles. He only probed for soil dampness at like 6 inches... check what's up at 5 feet, or 10 feet down.
Ring worm . Earth needs jock itch cream
@knottreel
4 жыл бұрын
Ship in a 500 lb tube of Lotrimin Ultra Extra Strength from Walmart.
@JennTN411
29 күн бұрын
This comment did not age well. 😮
These look like fungal•bacterial fairy rings of outward nutrient availability to them to convert for plant growth, then depleted the diameter grows, the depression aeolian ablation. These also can be started as corrals, the wood decayed and trees grew in those nutrient, shade & wind protected soils.
That old man said that those rings are perfect circles. I can see just by looking at them that they are not.
At area 51 you guys are focusing on the so-called blob. What about that other anomaly to the right, that black stringy thing that looks like it is coming up from underground. #WTF is that?
@douglashanlon1975
4 жыл бұрын
Its al gore resurrecting his presidential hopes
@justasub
4 жыл бұрын
@@douglashanlon1975 🤣🤣🤣
Dramatic music helps a lot.
The Noah's ark thing looks too much like the formations around it. It makes me think that it's a natural occurrence.
The earth is alive and very sick. Australia is having quakes in those areas
Natural phenomenon, unproductive people who have run out of other peoples ideas never having had any of their own.
the ark was found in the 70s by ron wyatt. u can find it on youtube.
@carolj471
4 жыл бұрын
Yup, it was a huge media deal then. Turkey invited Wyatt to come examine the object and see if he thought it was the ark. Wyatt took wood samples and pretty much proved that that was the only thing it could be, was the ark. Turkey celebrated the whole deal, there is now a museum there, that is, there was prior to the "soft coup" Obama and whoever tried to stage against the current leader. I don't know what is going on in that area now:-( Like a media black out on it:-(
@westyavro
4 жыл бұрын
There is no ark it was a hoax
@MimiJoys
4 жыл бұрын
@@westyavro The real Hoax is that Satan got you to believe there was never an Ark. So sad you bought into that.
@gormdengamle6399
4 жыл бұрын
@@westyavro there's a museum there now silly. Chariot wheels under red sea, 400 Quadrillion to 1 odds of bible code unreproducible today vetted by both harvard and Yale. Facts
@giavannasebastiano7261
4 жыл бұрын
@@westyavro It's easier for a man to believe in a lie then to believe he has been lied to.
That desert is not 80 million years old.
@znayJ
4 жыл бұрын
How do you know it's not.that old Africa is the Oldest Civilization on Earth not Greeks nor Romans
Wth the military has been changeing weather for years. Delivered by plane.Now its lazers from space. This is man made 100%
Dang it! You sunk my battleship!
I can dig it!
How did they not mention Ron Wyatt's expedition to Mt. Ararat?
Reminds me of the South American Trail of Tears circles.
Ringworm comes to mind. 🤔
@nimrodquimbus912
4 жыл бұрын
Molly Ringworm
@royl858
4 жыл бұрын
Ringworm is a bacterial infection
@nimrodquimbus912
4 жыл бұрын
I thought it was a movie actress.
Expeditions to the Ark site have been done. They apparently don’t have google. Hell, it’s on KZread. Ron Wyatt did several expeditions and they were awesome
It is a disruption in the electromagnetic spectrum. They’re terminus points for energy along the electromagnetic spectrum, scientist did not calculate for when beaming giga watts of energy into the ionosphere. They’ve fallen short of becoming sinkholes because they’re very dry. Unlike what’s happening in the Siberian tundra.
There many circles near tbe coast in North Carolina and a few other states along the east coast. Are they the same things?
Forget the rings. It's the necklace that is important.
circles are plants that start at a middle and grow outward. It's a bush type.
It looks like measles on a planetary scale!
I can’t believe I liked this show when I was 12
What happened to Sandy Island? They used it to build Dubai.
Sandy Island, in the Pacific Ocean east of Australia, is not pixelated-out on Google Earth.
8:13 it's so weird too how there is an edge of bushes and makes it stand out... 9:03 looks more like an aircraft carrier than an island....
@karrigarcia1399
4 жыл бұрын
But aircraft carriers are not 26km long. An aircraft carrier is a mere 0.3km long (about 300meters) by comparison.
Is that dude in the beginning wearing an Aperture Science shirt?
@chaoselites3636
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, just noticed it
80 million years! I can't stop laughing!
Have seen these rings picked up by radar in the States. On the different online weather radars
The Aperture Science guy knows more than he's letting on.
@barneymiller7894
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, hes just trying to hide it from Black Mesa.
What's happening faster? Islands disappearing or new islands appearing?
That island looks like an aircraft carrier
@mattcruse495
4 жыл бұрын
Lol simple as that
@yabobayo5787
4 жыл бұрын
must’ve been used Since 1800 s
@redle0pard
4 жыл бұрын
Nah....Typhoon-Class Sub
18:10 is there the actual time lapse of this available anywhere? Why just a still?
@photinodecay
4 жыл бұрын
The images they show in the video are just mockups of what the actual radar showed, anyway
Our Star, the SUN blasts Earth via Nova on a regular basis. Every 12,800 years???
@hegeliandetective1034
4 жыл бұрын
12,048 - 12,056 years
From a botanist, my theory is smart foliage collecting moisture.
The gas monitor is a H2S gas + and O2 level monitor, it’s used for personal protection in the oil fields
8:06 couldn't this be salt? I know you said they get rain, so, doesn't that make more sense than gas or termites?
Ships and planes have vanished all over the planet. Not just inn a few places like the Bermuda Triangle. No big mystery there.
I think it’s because all the grass died on the inside And sunlight only hit certain places like that
Plant rings explanation seems fairly easy, a taller grass/bush grows, sucks nutrients and water from the soil and smaller grass that accumulated the water, and dies after dropping seeds and running out of water/nutrients to steal. The seeds grow a small ring around original bush and when they eventually seed and die off the seeds that survive are the ones that land on the outside of the ring since the inside has less water/nutrients and this cycle repeats until the ring spreads wide enough that the pattern begins to fade and smaller grasses return to inside of the ring and begin moistening and returning organic nutrients to that soil. It seems possible the bushes share nutrients and water through connected roots too since that could be the reason the rings seem to be limited to smaller sizes and start to die off when they grow too large or start intersecting past dead zones. The missing island one looked to me like an area of missing data from where a satellite or plane did not fully overlap images from a couple of passes. This happens quite often and can have those irregular squared edges since orbital images are combined from many smaller square pictures overlapped, but it could also easily be the case that a strategic military asset such as an island base, ship/s, or a surfaced submarine was located there and cut out of the image in a way to look like a failed overlap just to keep from broadcasting the location at the time. They do that with the orbital space station sometimes when one of the fancy military satellites is passing by and it drives the UFO junkies crazy when they see a shape getting close and the feed cuts out for a little while. Many of the best commercial satellite cameras are actually several decade old spy satellites sold to the public, so you know the government has some crazy cool newer ones up there. I am not sure about now, but years ago the companies that sold satellite images were required to blur the resolution as well to hide how powerful even the old spy satellites were so that can probably create odd blurred effects on the outer edges of the photos. Most of the things on this show are fairly easy to explain so I don't know why they pretend they are mysteries and often propose some of the most radical possibilities. The Australia rings are obviously radar glitches or computer errors in the software that is processing radar data. Unless perhaps anyone thinks clouds form perfect patterns right over big cities with weather radars. You can often notice a similar issue on your local radar on foggy mornings as you will see the radar confusing fog for light clouds in a circle around the radar station that does not actually correspond to a near perfect circular rain cloud that just happens to be centered over big cities. That is just due to the fog reflecting the radar back a tiny bit causing a short range error, but that is normal and nothing like whatever horrible error the pictures in this show have. There were definitely not black line clouds with a red center causing storms though, the storms were likely completely unrelated or they were messing with the radar settings to try tracking the severe storms and that caused the errors. For example, you could expand the frequency to try detecting hail stones to locate areas that will most likely experience hail or tornadoes. Perhaps they were trying to do stuff like that in these cases and messed it up giving them useless data sweeps such as those. This show is outright lying by claiming that data comes from weather satellites though, the radar data is captured by a rotating array on the ground and computers calculate and display it over a map. We don't typically use satellites for weather the way they imply and the radial patterns are a clear giveaway it is radar. If the array or computers mess up the data is corrupted like this, but I would bet no such pattern existed in reality and certainly was not some weather weapon. They probably just had the radar array rotating at the wrong speed or tried to calculate the data for the wrong speed and the results got stretched and cut up all wrong. If they had asked a radar expert they would have probably got an exact explanation of what went wrong to create those radar patterns, but asking some crazy people if they think it is a super weapon attacking Australia for some inexplicable reason seems to make sense too I guess... I bet 90% of the photos in this series are perfectly understood and they are just pretending to not know what they are and getting statements from people with no clue what they are talking about just to support dramatic conspiracy ideas that make the show more interesting than telling the truth.
A show about rings but only 10 minutes of it is actually about the rings and the rest is about different anomalies.
The rings are a single grass plant though quiet old it grows outward over a period of time. It has been documented before in other places.
I heard that they are made of creosote bushes and they die out after a while and nothing will grow for a few years
Michael Tellanger has been showing those rings all over Africa for 20 years
Weather wars have been going on for years.
Looking on Earth Maps - HD 3D Earth Satellite Maps, I can clearly see a submerged mountain with a summit shaped similarly to Sandy Island, in the exact spot indicated on the map that uses the modern spelling of New Caledonia. Another map had it spelled with a K. So, to me, it looks like the island is still there, just somewhat lower than it was before. The earthquake, off the coast of Japan may have had something to do with it!
I'm not saying it's Aliens, but it's Aliens. Everything we can't explain is Aliens. Your welcome (☞͡͡°͜ʖ͡͡°)☞
@redle0pard
4 жыл бұрын
Could be ancient crop circles or ancient landing pads for bell-shaped UFOs. "OR"....it could be proof that ancient aliens had ATV's and Motor Cycles and enjoyed tearing-up the landscape with them like Earthlings do (lol)
@Chevelle17
4 жыл бұрын
except aliens are really the nephilim.
@anthonywebster2125
4 жыл бұрын
@@redle0pard lmfaooooo
They need to do a mineral analysis of the rings. I would bet they have traces of gold higher than the ground surrounding them Just a guess. Also, mercury and/or cyanide. Growing rings? Growing new circles or existing circles growing?
Sandy Island would have been a great spot for a mid ocean runway, for aircraft needing to land and refuel. It also seemed to be facing N-S, meaning that it may have had a connection to magnetic North. I say "BS," on the gold of El Dorado. If those mounds were indeed the location of the fabled city of gold, then I'd say that the people living there, over the past decades... Centuries, have helped themselves to whatever they found. El Dorado may have once been the city of gold, but today, it should be called the "city of the dead." Because that's all you'd ever find there... At the time of the Great Flood, Mt. Ararat did not even exist! It's a volcanic cone, that has developed over time, since the flood, which would have destroyed the Ark of Noah. Ararat isn't just the name of a volcanic mountain, it's also the name of the surrounding region. The Bible story of the flood, does NOT say the Ark came to rest "on Mt, Ararat," but that it came to rest "In the mountains of Ararat." 17 miles to the West of Mt. Ararat, the remains of an ancient ship were discovered, matching exactly the measurements of the Ark, using the "royal Egyptian cubit," the standard of measurement in the scriptures. The remains found at this location, are currently being excavated for archeological research. The remaining wood of the structure has become "petrified," because of it's long age. But clearly, it can be seen by ground penetrating radar, that this is indeed a man made structure. And samples taken from the center of this location, yielded "petrified animal dung," in what would have been the bottom of the Ark. KZread has videos on this location! The nation of Turkey, realizing the value of this site, has turned it into a protected area, with even a visitors station, where people can come and see it for themselves! What's on the mountaintop of the volcano, Ararat? There cannot be 2 Noah's Arks...
They made a movie to describe this, it was called the Island.
This has probably been asked, but who pixelated the satellite photo of Sandy Island in the first place? Satellites don't pixelate photos, so who did? That seems to be where the mystery of the island starts, yet little is said about this part of it.
Look into the ancient writings about a planetary war.. these could be an ancient bombardment site...
Namib Desert, West Africa 1:30 into video. Ouch. Starting out with such an erroneous statement, said with such authority, is shocking. The Namib Desert is in Namibia, Southern Africa, just north of South Africa.
First thing I would have done is test the Ph of the soil and whether there was mycorrhizea present. If you look at the ground formations all around the supposed Noah's Ark location you will notice it looks extremely similar. It's a repeating pattern that has a bullseye in the shape of a boat. Clouds look like animals too.