James Irwin

It stands as a major clue in unravelling the formative processes of the Moon, the Earth and the planet.

That rock made Jim Irwin famous.

It was named after the Book of Genesis, the first part of the Bible which tells the story of the creation of the world.

According to the Bible, this happened some 6,000 years ago, but when scientists actually examined the rock, they announced it was a lot older, some several billion years.

This was an all-wheel drive, and not all the wheels were working, and they worked on it and couldn't figure it out.

Nobody at Mission Control, a quarter of a million miles away in Houston, Texas, had any idea what to do.

That night, Jim Irwin prayed to God.

Oh, it's nice to be outside where

And it was, you know, close to 7,000 feet above sea level.

And Jim Irwin, one of the astronauts of the Apollo series spaceships, he told Ron that they had done research to see how high, if all the water that they calculated was in the Earth, on the earth and in the heavens was all gathered together and put on the earth, it would be about 7,000 feet.

So Ron said it was in the right altitude.

Here at this map, that little finger sticking out there is the area where this site is.

So now, in 1979, Ron had the idea.

He's going to get specimens.

He met Colonel Jim Irwin.

We talked about him earlier.

I have a very interesting story.

One of the guests who used to come here to the end and give testimony, and one of the men that did that for a number of years was Colonel James Irwin.

You might remember Jim Irwin.

He was on Apollo 15.

Ron Wyatt measured the structure at about 515 feet long, and he said earthquake activity exposed what he interpreted, again, as decayed rib timbers, fossilized wood, and he believed these were key parts to the vessel's structure.

and why it did collaboration with other so-called experts such as astronaut Jim Irwin and geophysicist John Baumgartner, which yielded evidence they believed of man-made alloys and construction techniques not natural to the area.

And I remember as a kid back in the late 80s, early 90s, seeing some of these photographs of Ron Wyatt holding these large circular metal alloy looking objects that they pulled out of this structure.

And I remember thinking, if this is just a natural formation, how can you have what looks like ancient weathered metal alloys? Their metal detectors and radar scans uncovered a substructure, again with organized compartment lines, what looks like bulkheads, consistent with a large ship, not natural geology.