Christian Heritage of America: Its Absolute Requirements for National and World Leadership; God Is Not Religion...HE IS.

Saturday, 7. August, 15:32

The Fedralist Papers, US Constitution, The Virginia Constitution, US Declaration of Independence, Mayflower Compact 1640, American Early Documents, Thomas Jefferson Notes on Virginia, Abraham Lincoln Against Slavery, John Quincy Adams Letters, Obama Birth Certificate from Mombasa Kenya, John Adams Letters, Bill of Rights, Mysterious Missile Launch Near Los Angeles, Killing of Unborn Children 

Thomas Jefferson: For in a warm climate, no man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labor. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God that they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. From Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1781.

Clifford A. Paiva: Any nation incurring increasing rates of divorce, killing of unborn children, and justification of homosexuality will be subject to invoking the Lord's anger; this as a function of the tremendous damage that such practices generate in personal lives of people. Consider that if 620,000 military men died in the American War of the Rebellion (southern states demanding the continuance of the institution of slavery for monetary gain), how many men and women will today die when America insists on homosexual perversion in all its institutions (including the military). Also increasing murder rates of its unborn children and the assumed right of mothers and fathers to deprive their children of a central family structure (through divorce), just so each parent may retain their own life styles, apart from Him? America is in very grave danger and remains largely ignorant of where or Who is the very real threat. Essential: Removal of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (for oversight of the report concerning the encouraging of homosexual perversion within the United States Department of Defense); dishonorable dismissal of Admiral Mullen (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), for openly endorsing homosexuality in the United States military, and impeachment and prosecution of Mr. Barry Soetoro (Barack Obama) for an illegal acceptance of the 2008 United States presidency, and for endorsing the murder of the unborn. These men should be removed from national power for the security of the United States and stability of the world. That God the Father would allow America to win any war while America publicly endorses homosexual perversion and killing of unborn children is of course absurd, no matter what laws are passed in the United States. America is in grave danger as it continues on a collision course with its Creator. If God permits America to remain unscathed through her practices of for example sodomy, then the God the Father (and His Son) owe a sincere apology to Sodom, Gomorah, and the surrounding valley for His mass killing of men and women, old and young, born and unborn. The new American view is that the innocents of Sodom and Gomorah were only seeking the recognition and implementation of their sexual orientation rights, and also their right to freedom under a government of their choice; not a government imposed upon them from an above (self-appointed) royal dictatorship (nepotism style).

Abraham Lincoln: "In regard to this great book (the Bible), I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to men. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it." [Sept. 9, 1864]

Clifford Anthony Paiva Resume
BSM Research Associates Representative Symphony: Mozart Requiem

Abraham Lincoln Quotes Regarding God"It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, and to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in Holy Scripture, and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And, insomuch (sic) as we know that by His divine law nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisement in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness." [March 30, 1863]

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Clifford Anthony Paiva: Resume and Vita

CLIFFORD A. PAIVA

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Executive Summary:  Missile Defense Physicist; Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Defense (ASBMD) Electro-Optics and Millimeter Wave Technologies; Advanced Image Processing Techniques Applied to Target Detection, Tracking, Classification and Identification (ATDCI); SM3-Block 1-A Naval BMD System; System Integration Engineering and Sensitivity Analysis Methods for High Energy Laser Program (HEL); Missile Hardbody and Exhaust Plume Interactions; Exoatmospheric/Endoatmospheric Applications of   HEL Weapons

BSM RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (Director)

California City, CA  (2000-2007)

BSM Research Associates (BSMRA) addresses ballistic missile defense challenges, including vulnerabilities to High Energy Lasers (HEL) algorithm battlespace effectiveness. General studies further include: Geophysics of Global Heating; Deceleration of Earth-Solar Equatorial Rotation Rates; Geomagnetic Dipole Field Decay; Image Processing of Noah’s Ark; Galaxy-Galaxy and Galaxy-Quasar Physical Coupling; Halton Arp’s Peculiar Galaxy Catalogue Image Processing; Electromagnetic and Gravitational Coupled Processes of the Integrated Field System (IFS)

HIGH ENERGY LASER RESEARCH:

Ÿ         Analysis of HEL interactions with solid and liquid propellant missile and jet aircraft exhaust plumes

Ÿ         HEL interactions analysis directed to specific foreign and domestic target sets, including PRC/Russian/North Korea and Middle East derivate systems

SPACE PHYSICS RESEARCH:

Space physics addressing solar storms and geomagnetic field coupled physical processes, and its effects on space-based infrared focal plane arrays (Ph.D. dissertation topic); geomagnetic field decay and increase solar storm activity

Naval Science

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Laboratory, Dahlgren, VA (1991-2000)

                                                               

Electro-Optics and Infrared Countermeasures Technologies Division

Primary Responsibilities for Missile Defense Agency Applications (MDA):

 Image processing of missile plumes, and nuclear circular error probable predictive capabilities using   UV/Optical/IR/MMW SSGM                 

Ÿ         SS-27 (TOPEL-M; Russian/PRC DF-31 and Middle East derivative systems (SHAHAB V/VI and GHADR-110;  NK  TAEPODONG II M2, etc.)

Ÿ         SRBM/IRBM/ICBM ballistic missile defense target detection, classification and identification (DCI) algorithm generation and simulation

Ÿ         Implement Advanced Visual Systems (AVS), KHOROS and NRL-SCION advanced image processing packages for DTCI operations

Ÿ         Implement NIMA-Digitized Radiation Mapping for DTCI operations

Ÿ         Scientific and Technical Intelligence Liaison Office (STILO): Analysis of Foreign Directed Energy Programs

Naval Warfare Assessment Center (formerly Naval Fleet Analysis Center), Naval Weapons Systems, Seal Beach, Corona, CA (1979-1983)

Test Technology Branch Primary Responsibilities for Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO)

Ÿ        High Energy Laser (HEL) electro-optics and pointer-tracker configuration management, functioning under Naval Directed Energy Office, Washington, D.C. (PMS 405)

Ÿ         AIM-7 NAT0  Sea Sparrow Weapons Telemetry and Flight Performance Analysis

Ÿ         Scientific and Technical Intelligence Liaison Office (STILO): Analysis of Foreign Directed Energy Programs

Air Force Science

Air Force Research Laboratory, Rocket Propulsion Directorate, Edwards AFB, CA (1986-1991)

Thermophysics Branch

Primary Responsibilities:

Ÿ         Project Manager: Strategic Defense Initiative (SDIO/BMDO/MDA) Composite High Altitude Radiation Model (CHARM) Program in Conjunction with Airborne Laser Propagation Applications

Ÿ         Project Manager: SDI Kinetic Weapons (KEW) Plume-to-Hardbody Handover Algorithm Evaluations Program for Sandia National Laboratories

Ÿ         Project Manager: High Altitude Observatory (HALO), Aerospace Corporation, Optical and Infrared Target Discrimination Program for The Aerospace Corporation

Ÿ         Scientific and Technical Intelligence Liaison Office (STILO): Analysis of Foreign Directed Energy Programs

Computer sCIENCES

Formulation of Missile Defense Agency Simulation Systems

US Naval Research Lab SCION Advanced Image Processor

Microsoft Office Professional

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects Target Acquisition Algorithm

UNIX and Windows Based Operating Systems

INSTRUCTOR

Advanced Mathematics at The King’s Academy, Fredericksburg, Virginia

MUROC (Edwards AFB, CA) Unified School District K-12

EDUCATION

Defense Intelligence School, Washington D.C.: Imagery Intelligence and Physics for Strategic Intelligence

Chapman University Education Program: 3 Courses in Primary and Secondary Education

Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon, CA: Degree: M.S. Astro-Geophysics

Christian Heritage College, El Cajon, CA: Degree: B.S.  Geophysics

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA: One Year: Mathematics, Ocean Sciences

Southwestern College: Two Years in Science, Business and Music

Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Mo: Two Courses:Egyptology and Psychology

Air Force Command and Staff College: Three Course in Strategy and Policy

Naval War College: Four Courses in Strategy and Policy

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor): Nine Courses in Advanced EO-IR Analysis

International Society for Optical Engineering: Eleven Courses in Automatic Target Detection

Georgia Institute of Technology: Two Courses in Millimeter Wave Radar                                  

University of Tennessee Space Institute: Two Courses in  Solid Rocket Motor Propulsion

US Defense Management College:  Contract Performance and Budget Analysis
Forces Institute: Two Courses: General Undergraduate in English

Antelope Valley College Current: Master Chorale and Concertino

California CBEST Test Completed for Credential

Technical Papers accepted for presentation and publication

              HEL-Generated Extinction Effects and Extinction Along Extended Atmospheric Paths: Implications for USAF-ABL and HEL-Missile Exhaust Plumes Interactions; Paper 7842-70 (U); C. A. Paiva; BSM Research Associates; H. S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; SPIE Laser Damage Conference 2010; Laser Damage Symposium on Optical Materials for High Power Lasers (Conference 7842); Proceedings of  SPIE Volume: 7842; Conference Site: National Institute of Standards and Technology; Boulder Colorado; (29 September 2010)

USAF High-Energy Laser (HEL) Systems: HEL-Generated Extinction Effects and Degradation of ATR/Space-Based Infrared Algorithms: GHADR 110 (PRC DF-31 (U); C. A. Paiva; BSM Research Associates; H. S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; 40th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference/ 28th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference/ 41st AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference/ 10th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA (28 June – 1 July 2010)

USAF High-Energy Laser (HEL) Systems: HEL-Generated Extinction Effects and Degradation of ATR/Space-Based Infrared Algorithms (U); C. A. Paiva; BSM Research Associates; H. S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE); Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IV;  (5-9 April 2010)

Chemical-Oxygen- Iodine (COIL) HEL Systems and Missile Exhaust Plasma- Plasma Interactions: HEL Extinction Effects (U); C. A. Paiva; BSM Research Associates; H. S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; AIAA 40th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference; Session: Session 95-PDL-3 Chemical and Electric Oxygen-Iodine Lasers Weapons; (24 June 2009)

Plasma Generation Within Missile Exhaust Plumes and HEL Beam Extinction: Analysis of the Iranian SHAHAB 5/6 - AIAA Paper (U); C. A. Paiva; BSM Research Associates; H. S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; AIAA Missile Sciences Conference; Session: Weapons Systems Effectiveness; Available: Defense Technical Information (DTIC) Publication;  (11 November 2008)

High Energy Laser (HEL) Plume Lensing: HEL Plasma Extinction Processes Asymmetric Missile Plumes (U); C. A. Paiva; BSM Research Associates; H. S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; AIAA Missile Sciences Conference; Session: Weapons Systems Effectiveness; Available: Defense Technical Information (DTIC) Publication;  (15 November 2006)

 Space Based Detection/Tracking/Identification: Iranian SHAHAB 5/6 Missile Exhaust Plumes (U); C. A. Paiva, BSM Research Associates; H. S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; AIAA Space 2005 Conference; Paper Number: AIAA-2005-6820; Session SW-3; Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, CA; Session: AIAA-2005-6820; Available: Defense Technical Information (DTIC) Publication;  (31 August 2005 -1 September 2005)

High Energy Laser Interactions With Solid Rocket Exhausts: Case Study: PRC/DF-15 (U). A. Paiva, BSM Research Associates; H.S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; AIAA Missile Sciences Conference; Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA; Defense Technical Information (DTIC) Publication;  (16-18 November 2004)

High Energy Laser (HEL) Interactions With Liquid Propellant, Rocket Exhaust Particles: Case Application: DF-15 (U):  C.A. Paiva, BSM Research Associates; H.S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; 35th AIAA Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, Portland Oregon; Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Publication; (28 June-1 July 2004)

High Energy Laser Plasma Refraction and Extinction Processes Within Missile Exhaust Plumes: An Analysis of the Taepo-Dong II HEL/Exhaust Plume Interactions (U):  C.A. Paiva, BSM Research Associates; H.S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; SPIE's Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering (LASE) Photonics West); Gas and Chemical Lasers and Applications IV Proceedings; (24-29 January 2004)

High-Energy Laser Beam Transmissions Through Aluminum Oxide and Carbon Soot: A Case for Dispersion (U):  C.A. Paiva, BSM Research Associates; H.S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department, 33rd AIAA Missile Science 5-7 November 2002; AIAA-Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Publication; Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, C.A.; (5-7 November 2002)

High-Energy Laser Beam Transmissions Through Dissociated and Ionized Atmospheres and Missile Exhaust Plumes (U): C.A. Paiva, BSM Research Associates; H.S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; International Society for Optical Engineers http://www.spie.org/; International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology Proceedings, 7-11 July 2002

High-Energy Laser Beam Transmissions Through Turbulent Atmospheres Missile Exhaust Plume Species (U):  C.A. Paiva, BSM Research Associates; H.S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department, 33r AIAA Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference and the 14^th International Conference on MHD Power Generation and High Temperature Technologies Proceedings; American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics; 25 May 2002

High-Energy Laser Interactions With Missile Plumes Containing Oxides of Zirconium and Magnesium in Rocket Exhausts (U): C. A. Paiva, BSM Associates; H.S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; Conference on Laser Electro-Optics Proceedings 21 May 2002; Optical Society of America; (21 May 2002)

High-Energy Laser Transmissions Through Missile Exhaust Plumes: The Implications for High Angle-of-Attack (AOA) Scenarios (U): C. A. Paiva, BSM Research Associates; H.S. Slusher, University of Texas at El Paso, Physics Department; Laser Weapons Technology III Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume 4724-14; (1 April 2002)

Imaging Analyst in Washington Times Insight Magazine On The News Magazine Article: Noah’s Ark? Insight Exclusive (20 November 2000)

Theater Ballistic Missile Defense/Debris Signature Suppression and Hardbody Aimpoint Selection (U): C.A. Paiva; Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence; Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, Proceedings of the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE); AeroSense Conference Proceedings SPIE Volume 3390-6; (16 April 98)

Navy Theater Ballistic Missile Defense: Post Boost Multi-spectral Discrimination Requirements for Detection/Classification/Aimpoint Selection (U); C.A. Paiva; Infrared Information Symposium Proceedings for Targets, backgrounds and Discrimination (Classified Paper: SECRET), Volume II, (January 1998)

Theater Targets Plume Edge Extraction and Hardbody Aimpoint Selection (U); C.A. Paiva; National Target/Threat Signature Data System (NTDS) Conference Working Papers Aberdeen Test Center, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD, (15 July 1997)

Theater Targets Plume Edge Extraction and Hardbody Aimpoint Selection: (U); C.A. Paiva; Automatic Object Recognition VII: Advances In ATR Algorithms and Systems I VI; Gerald C. Holst, Editors, Proceedings of the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) AeroSense Conference Proceedings SPIE Volume 3069, (23 April 1997)

Target Edge Extraction and Morphological Image Segmentation for Discrimination of PRC M-9 from North Korean Backgrounds (Using MOSART and APART Atmospheric Radiative Transmission Codes): C.A. Paiva; (Abstracts) Air Force Research Laboratory, Geophysics Directorate 19th Annual Review of Atmospheric Transmission Models Proceedings (1996)

Mobile Foreign Missile Target Edge Extraction and Aimpoint Selection Using Region Growing Morphological Segmentation; C.A. Paiva;  Infrared Information Symposium Proceedings for Targets, Backgrounds and Discrimination, Volume II (Classified Paper: SECRET) (1996)

Morphological and Segmentation Processing of Four Mideast Targets Using Synthetic Scene Generator Model (SSGM) and Advanced Visual Systems (AVS) Image Processing Package.  US Army Automotive Tank Command Ground Targets Modeling and Validation Conference Proceedings VI (1995)

Maximum Detection Range of Very Low Intensity Targets Using Morphological and Segmentation Image Processing Techniques; C.A. Paiva;  Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling and Testing VI, Gerald C Holst, Editors, Proceedings of the International society of Optical Engineers (SPIE) AeroSense Proceedings SPIE Volume 2470, (10-20 April 1995)

Maximum Detection Range of Very Low Intensity Targets (via SSGM VI/OSC 18) Using Marr-Hildreth and Sobel Edge-Detection of Fourier Transform Imagery; C.A. Paiva; 18 Annual Atmospheric Transmission Conference Proceedings (1995), Air Force Research Laboratory Geophysics Directorate

Maximum Detection range of Target Edge Intensity Using Morphological and Segmentation Image Processing Techniques; C.A. Paiva; US Army Automotive Tank Command Ground Targets Modeling and Validation Conference Proceedings V (1994)

Angle-of-Attack Effects in CHARM/DSP Data Comparisons (U); C.A. Paiva, (USAF Research Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate), and R.B. Lyons, (Aerojet GenCorp);  Proceedings of Joint Army, Air Force, Navy, NASA,  (JANNAF) Plume Technology Conference: (Classified Paper: SECRET/NOFORN) (1989)

Cavitation in Macro-Fluvial Processes and the Implications for Geologic Time; C.A. Paiva; Graduate Thesis for Masters Degree in Geophysics (1985); Advisor and Editor: Dr Harold Slusher, Ph.D., D.Sc.; University of Texas at El Paso Physics Department

Maritime Tactical Nuclear War; C.A. Paiva; Research Paper, US Naval War College, (1982)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

*      Antelope Valley Creation Science Association

Ÿ         Creation Research Society

Ÿ         Institute for Creation Research Staff Scientist

Ÿ         International Society for Optical Engineers (SPIE)

Ÿ         International Technical Group on Penetrating Radiation (ITGPR)

Ÿ         Optics Society of America (OSA)

Ÿ         American Physical Society (APS)

Ÿ         Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Automatic Target Recognition Working Group (ATRWG)

Ÿ         Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) East Asia Working Group

Ÿ         Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Theater Ballistic Missile Defense: Asia-Pacific Working Group

Ÿ         Atlantic Council of the United States Senior Councilor (1999-2001)

Ÿ         United States Naval Institute (USNI)

Ÿ         American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE)

Ÿ         United States Navy Memorial

Ÿ         Organization of Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP)

Ÿ         Affiliation of Christian Geologists (ACG)

Ÿ         Imaging Physicist for Global Underwater Search Team (GUST)

Special Recognition

Marquis’ Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (Years: 1998-2010)

Marquis’ Who’s Who in America (Years: 2000-2010)

Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World (Years: 2000-2010)

PUBLIC MEDIA PRESENTATIONS OF IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

History Channel Monsterquest 2009: Flight Dynamics and Target Edge Extraction from Imagery of Pterosaurs and Ropen

Discovery Channel Animal-X (2005): Unidentified Lake Animals: Classified and IdentifiedUsing Image  Processing

               

                               

The Global Fracture System (GFS); Genesis Flood; Lithospheric Destruction

http://my.opera.com/mycpaiva/blog/the-global-fracture-system-gfs-genesis-flood-lithospheric-destruction

The explosive thermal destruction of the Earth's crust is presented in this section, as it has direct bearing on decisions of national security. The occurrence of the global fracture zones, including the primary and transform faults, resulted in the near destruction of all life on this planet some 4500 years ago. Indeed, this is the essence of the Noah's Ark Ministries International (NAMI) discovery in October 2009. The 1.5- 2.0 million cubic feet cargo barge (Noah's Ark) positioned at the 16,300 ft. altitude on Mt. Ararat strato-volcano, should have provided the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) far more than just the cursory interest he displayed in 1994 while at CIA. DCI Director Robert Gates� initiated Noah's Ark investigations on Mt. Ararat, but imprudently allowed the project to be shelved. Robert Gates' priorities should have�centered first on national and international security requirements; and secondly on the�critical implications for geophysics and biology of the planet On a related issue,�Hydrothermal vent complexes exuding methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are located globally in the millions along these fracture systems. Global Fracture System.doc 

The Global Fracture System provides the basis for the CIA's and Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency's imaging investigations concerning Mt. Ararat, the Ark; followed by classified discussions with the Defense Department's National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). These took place on a secured telecommunications unit (STU) phone in 1999, at Naval Surface Warfare Center's Dahlgren Laboratory while I worked as a physicist. The information concerning the "ship" was classified at the time of the conversation in 1999; hidden of course from the general public but revealed to me by way of STU phone from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) NRO. My involvement pertained to application of image processing techniques applied to available imagery of the ship. These events followed current SECDEF Dr. Robert Gates tenure (1994) and his abandonment of his national security responsibilities concerning the verification and validation of the ship's position on the strato-volcano, Mt. Ararat in Eastern Turkey. Fears concerning personal and professional embarrassment may have affected his courage regarding this critically important investigation. Dr. Gates may have confused historical anthropology and geophysics with the illusion of religion. The concept of religion is a safe way out for government employees. The Ark was stated to be, and the Simmons--Arslan photo confirms that it is, located on the northeastern section of the strato-volcano, very near the summit, northwest of the Ahora Gorge. The ship has been photographed by Dr. Ahmet Arslan in 1989 under direction and funding of Mr. Robin Simmons. One of the frames (number 2) has been extensively image-processed here at BSMRA, which resulted in extraction of the ship from the ambient background. The image was eventually forwarded to CIA and the Geospatial Intelligence Agency from here. The objective of forwarding the Ark information was to give the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) an actual processed Ark photo, and to correct the widely distributed (and diversion-oriented) Mt. Ararat "anomaly" photos, made famous by Dr. Porcher Taylor of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.. The Mt. Ararat anomaly is a geophysical, and possibly modified cultural rock formation, located approximately 1,000 feet below the ship, in a southeast direction. The anomaly is on the edge of the caldera plateau, being first 29-bomber crew on a mission. The enclosed PDFs have the declassified FOIA documents from 1949 through 2009, including pending requests photographed by the new CIA in 17 June 1949 by a USAF B-29.