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High in the mountains of BayanKara-Ula, on the boarders of China and Tibet - a team of archeologists were
conducting a very detailed routine survey of a series of interlinked caves. Their interests had been excited by the
discovery of lines of neatly arranged graves which contained the skeletons of what must have been a strange race of
human beings; strange because they had unnaturally spindly bodies and large, over-developed heads.
At first, it had been thought that the caves had been the home of a hitherto unkown species of ape.
But as the leader of the team - the Chinese archeologist, Professor Chi Pu Tei - pointed out, "Who ever heard of
apes burying each other?"
It was while studying the skeletons that one of the team stumbled on a large, round stone disk, half buried in the dust
on the floor of the cave. The team gathered round the discovery, turning it this way and that. It looked, absurdly,
like a kind of 'Stone Age Gramophone record'. There was a hole in the center and a fine, spiral groove radiated to
the rim. Closer inspection, however, showed that the groove was, in fact, a continous spiralling line of closely written
characters. The object was a 'record' ... in more ways then one. Only nobody at the time - the year was 1938 -
possessed the key to its incredible message.
The disc was labeled and filed away among other finds in the area. Even those who knew of its existence knew
nothing of its meaning. Many experts tried to translate the hieroglyphs in the 20 years the disc languished in Peking.
They all failed. It was not until another professor -Dr. Tsum Um Nui - broke the code and started to decipher the
'speaking grooves' that the extraordinary implications of the disc were realized. Realized, that is, only by only a
select few. The outside world remained in ignorance. For the professor's conclusions on the neaning of the disc
were so shattering that they were offically suppressed. The Peking Academy of Pre-History forbade him to publish
his findings.
Two years later, in 1965, the professor and four of his colleagues were finally given permission to reveal their
theory. It appeared under the long-winded but intriguing title, "The Grooved Script concerning Space-ships which,
as recorded on the Discs, landed on Earth 12,000 years ago".
The 'records' - 716 of the grooved discs were later uncovered in the same caves - told an astonishing story of a
'space probe' by the inhabitants of another planet which came to grief in the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountain range. The
strange, spiral script told how the peaceful intentions of the 'aliens' had been misunderstood and how many of them
were hunted down and killed by members of the Ham tribe, who lived in the neighboring caves.
According to Tsum Um Nui, one of the lines of the hieroglyphs read, "The Dropas came down from the clouds in
their aircraft. Our men, women and children hid in the caves ten times before sunrise. When at last they understood
the sign language of the Dropas, they realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions... Another section
expressed 'regret' by the Ham tribe that the aliens' spaceship had crash-landed in such a remote and inaccessible
mountains and that there had been no way to building a new one to enable Dropas to return to their own planet.
In the years since the discovery of the first disc, archeologists and anthropologists had learned more about the
isolated Bayan-Kara-Ula area. And much of the information seemed to corroborate the bizarre story recorded on
the discs.
Legend still preserved in the area spoke of small, gaunt, yellow faced men who 'came from the clouds, long, long
ago'. The men had huge, bulging heads and puny bodies and were so ugly and repellent that they were hounded
down by local tribesmen on horseback. Strangely, the description of the 'invaders' tallied with the skeletons orginally
discovered in the caves by Professor Chi Pu Tei. On the walls of the caves themselves archeologists had uncovered
crude pictures of the rising Sun, the Moon, unidentifiable stars and the Earth... all joined together by lines of
pea-sized dots. Along with the discs, the cave drawings had been dated around 12,000 years old.
The cave area was still inhabited by two semi-troglodyte tribes known as the Hams and the Dropas, themselves
extremely odd in appearance. The frail and stunted tribesmen averaged only about five feet in height and were
neither typically Chinese nor Tibetan. "Their racial ack-ground," said one expert, "is a mystery."But even with the
publications of Professor Tsum Um Nui's amazing translation, the story of the 'space discs' was not over. Russian
scientists asked to see the discs and several were sent to Moscow for examination. They were scraped free of rock
particles which had stuck to them and then put through chemical analysis. To the suprise of the scientists, they we
found to contain large amounts of cobalt and other metallic substances. That was not all. When placed on a special
turntable - according to Dr. Vyatcheslav Saizev, who described the experiments in the Soviet magazine Sputnik -
they vibrated or 'hummed' in an unusual rhythm as though an electic charge was passing through them. Or as one
scientist suggested, "as if they formed some part of an electrical circuit." At some time, they had clearly been
exposed to extraordinarily high votages.
Did the discs actually record an abortive space mission by alien astronauts 12,000 years ago?
Nearly all the leading 'space speculators' - theorists like Erich von Daniken and Peter Kolosimo - believe so.
For once one accepts the proposition that aliens may have already have visted earth, then it follows that some of
their space-probes must have failed and the astronauts must have been destroyed.
Posted by John Winston
johnfwin@mlode.com
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File#:10000BC-01
THE CHINESE ROSWELL
Date & Location: 10,000 BC Byan-Kara-Ula mountains China
Vallee Classification:CR3-333
Tangibile Evidence: Multi-Witness, Physical Evidence (The skeletons, and the discs), Local legend of a tribe called
the dropas who "fell from the sky", Living tribe found matching the Dropas description and history.
Tangibilty index: 3.20 (64%)
It's been called "The Chinese Roswell". A story of a crashed spacecraft over 12,000 years ago in a remote
mountain area of China. An expedition led by archeologist Chi Pu-Tei found a number of strange skeletons,
entombed. The skeletons had abnormally large heads, and proportionally small frail frames for bodies. Also found
were 716 stone discs with a spiral groove in each starting at the rim and leading to a hole in the center.
The grooves accompanied a series of heiroglyphics which could not be deciphered at the time they were found.
In 1963 a professor at the Beijing Academy of Sciences was succesful in translating some of the heiroglyphics on
the stone discs. When he submitted his report to the Academy they forbid him to publish the results. He had
determined the discs told the story of an alien ship which crashed over 12,000 years ago.
Two years later in 1965 the professor and his collegues were given permission to publish their findings. The story
was of an alien race called the Dropas who after a long space flight, crashed in the mountains. A great number of
them died in and after the crash, the survivors could not repair the ship.
Tales from the Qinghai province supported the findings of the report. They told of small, skinny, ugly beings, with
oversized heads and small thin bodies and limbs. The beings had "come from the sky" long ago.
A report from China in 1995 also seems to support the tale of the Dropas. A new tribe had been found near the
eastern border of the Byan-Kara-Ula mountains. The most interesting fact about this new group of people? Their
size..... averaging 3 ft in height.
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ANOTHER STORY ABOUT THE DROPA STONES
Chi Pu Tei, a professor of archaeology at Beijing University, was leading some his students on an expedition to
survey a series of interlinking caves in the Himalyan mountains. According to one account, the caves may have been
artificially carved, and were more like a complex system of tunnels and underground storerooms. The walls were
squared and glazed, as if cut into the mountain with a source of extreme heat. Inside the caves were several ancient,
but neatly arranged burial sites, and in them the skeletal remains of a strange people. The skeletons, measuring a
little more than four feet tall, were frail and spindly with disproportionately large skulls.
