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DROPAS and DROPA DISKS
 The Dropas
To this very day, there are two tribes of
people inhabiting the Bayan-Kara-Ula region who call themselves the Dropa and
the Han. Neither tribe can be categorized into any known race - they are not
Chinese, nor are they Tibetan. The people of both tribes are pygmy-sized
with adults growing no taller than 3'-10" (the smallest measuring
2'-1") and weighing an average of 45 lbs. Their skin is yellowish and
they have unusually large heads just like the remains of the aliens found in the
caves in 1938. Hair is very sparse on their bodies and their non-Asian
eyes are large with pale blue irises.
There is even an old Chinese tale which speaks
of tiny, yellow-skinned people who came to Earth from the sky, and who were
shunned because of their ugliness.
Supposedly the following article appeared in
Nexus 2/16 with no author's credit given. The text, regarding the
mysterious stone disks found in the mountains of Tibet some years back, offers
additional information not commonly found in the newspaper account.
The Dropa Disks
High in the mountains of BayanKara-Ula, on the
borders of China and Tibet - a team of archaeologists 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, overdeveloped heads.
At first, it had been thought that the caves
had been the home of a hitherto unknown species of ape. But as the leader
of the team - the Chinese archaeologist, 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 continuous spiralling line of closely written characters.
The object was a 'record'... in more ways than
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 a
select few. The outside world remained in ignorance. For the
professor's conclusions on the meaning of the disc were so shattering that they
were officially 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 build a new one to
enable the Dropas to return to their own planet.
In the years since the discovery of the first
disc, archaeologists 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
local tribesmen on horseback hounded them down. Strangely, the description of
the 'invaders' tallied with the skeletons originally 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
back-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 that
had stuck to them and then put through chemical analysis. To the surprise 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 electric
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 voltages.
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 already have
visited earth, then it follows that some of their space-probes must have failed
and the astronauts must have been destroyed.
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