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CIA Reading Room DOC_0000728028 — Mount Ararat / Noah's Ark
Central Intelligence Agency · Cold War / posted 2026
Declassified CIA
Request
Public CIA Reading Room PDF flagged by Lee Nicholson as DOC_0000728028; Hume amplified.
Outcome
Hume files CIA interest in Noah's Ark / Ararat under archaeological / OOPArt UFOlogy with Lundahl and the Riggs story. Lee posted DOC_0000728028.pdf (the Reading Room permalink currently bounces to the search home). A public cousin item, Noah's Ark and Mt. Ararat (0000839383), is archived as a PDF.
The paper CIA-Ararat file sitting next to NPIC lore.
Names on this file
Lee Nicholson
Independent researcher, Pendle, UK
Flagged CIA Reading Room DOC_0000728028 (Mount Ararat / Noah's Ark). Hume credited him.
Don Riggs
Source in The Pyramid and the Pentagon
Told the story of his father Harold Riggs and archaeological/out-of-place artifacts (Noah's Ark). Hume calls this the most interesting archaeological-UFO case and notes Lundahl's involvement.
Harold Riggs
Father of Don Riggs
Subject of the Riggs family account Hume highlights for CIA archaeological interest.
Arthur C. Lundahl
Founding director, CIA NPIC
Told Jacques Vallée in 1989 that he possessed a fragment shot off a UFO during the 1952 Washington, D.C. flap and that IBM analysed it. AARO later looked for the piece for its historic report and could not locate it. Hume argues CIA then passed 1950s fragments to LMSSC, which is why AARO came up empty.
Cases
Documents & links
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- CIA Reading Room — Noah's Ark and Mt. Ararat (0000839383)
- Archived PDF — Noah's Ark and Mt. Ararat (0000839383)
- CIA FOIA Reading Room
Source posts
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- 2026-08-31
HT to @LeeNich40634972 CIA interest in Noah's ark