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| The Dropa Stones... Alien Implanted History |
In 1938, a team of archaeologists, led by Professor Chi Pu Tei of Beijing University,
was conducting a very detailed routine survey of a series of interlinked caves of
Balan Kara-Ula, a district on the border of China and Tibet. 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. At first, it had been thought by one of the assistants,
that the caves had been the home of a hitherto unknown species of ape. But as
Professor Chi Pu Tei pointed out, "Who ever heard of apes burying each other?"
On the walls of the caves were found rock drawings which portrayed beings with
round helmets. Engraved in the rock were also sun, moon, earth and stars, connected
by groups of pea-sized dots.
It was while studying the skeletons that one of the team stumbled on a large, round
stone disk, about two centimeters thick (0.8 inch), half buried in the dust on the floor of the cave. The team
gathered around the discovery, trying to make some sense of the object. It looked, absurdly, like a sort of Stone
Age gramophone record. There was a hole in the center and a fine groove, spiraling out from the center to the rim.
Under closer inspection, however, it was obvious that the groove was, in fact, a continuous inscribed double-line of
closely packed characters. This one plate, dated to be between 10,000 and 12,000 years old -- older by far than
the great pyramids of Egypt. After a thorough search of the caves, an additional 715 plates were found! Each disc
was 22.7 cm (9 inches) in diameter and 2 cm (3/4 inch) thick. Each disc also had a perfectly circular 2 cm hole in
the exact center. The outside edges were regularly indented all the way around, almost like the fluting on a pie
crust. Each disc also had a twin groove which began at the center hole and gradually moved in an expanding
counterclockwise spiral to the outer rim, bearing a striking similarity to modern phonograph records. Only nobody at
the time was able to decipher the messages they contained. The discs were labeled and filed away among other
finds in the area. Even those who knew of their existence knew nothing of their meaning.
Many experts tried to translate the inscriptions in the two decades during which the discs were stored away in
Beijing, but without success. 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
discs were so shattering that they were officially suppressed. The Prehistory Department of the Beijing Academy
forbade him to publish his findings.
Dr. Tsum Um Nui felt the smooth face of the disk with the palm of his hand. "What could this disk possibly be?" he
wondered. He knew of its recent history; how it was discovered in 1938 by a Chinese archaeologist in a cave high in
the Himalayans, along with 715 similar disks; how buried nearby were skeletons of a strange tribe of people
averaging only a little over four feet high; how it was found that each disk was inscribed with a tiny groove that
spiraled around its face, and that the groove turned out to be an unknown hieroglyphic.
He also knew how the disks, as remarkable as they were, had been simply labeled along with other finds of the
expedition and stored away at Beijing University for 20 years.
During that time, others had attempted to decipher the strange inscriptions, but without success. Perhaps now, in
1962, he could.
The professor painstakingly transcribed the characters from the disk to paper. The writing was so small he had to
use a magnifying glass to see it clearly. But the stones were old -- perhaps 12,000 years old, it was estimated --
and much of the hieroglyphics were difficult to make out or had been worn away by time and the elements.
As he worked, many questions nagged the professor.
How did these primitive people fashion these precise stones?
How did they manage the almost microscopic writing?
Who were they and what was the purpose of these hundreds of stones?
Once the characters were transcribed, Dr. Tsum Um Nui began the arduous task of trying to decode its message.
Eventually, he began to make progress. A word emerged. Then another. A phrase became understandable, then
an entire sentence. He had broken the code.
He discerned that the messages on the stones were written by a people who called themselves the Dropa.
But what they were saying to him 12,000 years later made no sense. What the Dropa had written must have been
one of their cultural myths, or was part of some prehistoric religious ceremony. Or was it?
When he had completed the translation as much as he could, the professor sat back in his chair in disbelief.
The story the Dropa related was nothing short of astounding. How would his colleagues react?
How might the world react if this story was true? The professor wrote up a paper on his findings and presented it to
the university for publication.
The deciphered records contain a story which may be upsetting to some and absurd or bizarre to others. The
records told of a space probe by the inhabitants of another planet which came to an abrupt halt in the
Bayan-Kara-Ula mountain range. The strange, spiral script told of how the peaceful intentions of theirs had been
misunderstood and how many of them were hunted down and killed by members of the Kham tribe, who lived in the
neighboring caves.
According to Tsum Um Nui, one of the lines of the hieroglyphs read, "The Dropas (aka Dzopas, due to the fact that
the sound of the second consonant is in between a 'Z' and an 'R') 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 (the Kham) understood the
sign language of the Dropas, they realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions." Another section expressed
regret by the local Kham tribe that the aliens' spaceship had crash-landed in such a remote and inaccessible
mountain range and that there had been no possibility of building a new one to enable the Dropas to return to their
own planet.
Their reaction was swift and emphatic: the paper would not be published. The Academy of Prehistory expressly
forbade him to publish or even speak of his findings. The world, the academy decided, should not know about the
Dropa and their fateful journey to Earth. Dr. Tsum Um Nui's findings were eventually published, however.
Just two years later, he published the paper entitled, "The Grooved Script Concerning Spaceships Which, as
Recorded on the Discs, Landed on Earth 12,000 Years Ago."
By some accounts, the academy relented and gave permission to the professor to publish the paper, and by other
accounts he published it despite the official ban.
In either case, his translation and his theory were met with ridicule by the archaeology establishment. The
translation was just too shattering to be taken at face value or as an historical account. It just could not be true. It
would change everything we know about our history and humankind's place in the universe.
In cooperation with geologists and after spectrographic analysis, it was found that the plates had a high cobalt and
metal content (the metals involved are not, though, referenced in the available sources). That implied an artificial
origin of the plates; they were not of diorite as previously thought. The hardness of the material, however,
compared to diorite.
Russian scientists asked to see the discs and several were sent to Moscow for examination. They were cleaned
free of rock particles which had stuck to them and then put through analysis which corroborated the findings of
Chinese scientists. That was not all. When placed on a special turntable, they vibrated or hummed with a high
frequency resonance, which led to the conclusion that they had been exposed to very high voltages at some point
in time. Or as one scientist suggested, "as if they formed some part of an electrical circuit."
In 1963, Dr. Tsum Um Nui decided to publish the findings in spite of the position of the Academy. The paper
appeared under a long-winded but intriguing title, "The Grooved Script concerning Space-ships which, as recorded
on the Discs, landed on Earth 12,000 years ago". It was not taken seriously in the West and, in short time, the
whole matter seemed to fade into oblivion. That is, until 1967, when Russian philologist Dr. Viatcheslav Zaitsev
published the extracts from the stone-plate story in the Sputnik Magazine. Allegedly, the whole story is preserved in
the Beijing Academy, as well as in the historical archives of Taipei, R.O.C.
was conducting a very detailed routine survey of a series of interlinked caves of
Balan Kara-Ula, a district on the border of China and Tibet. 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. At first, it had been thought by one of the assistants,
that the caves had been the home of a hitherto unknown species of ape. But as
Professor Chi Pu Tei pointed out, "Who ever heard of apes burying each other?"
On the walls of the caves were found rock drawings which portrayed beings with
round helmets. Engraved in the rock were also sun, moon, earth and stars, connected
by groups of pea-sized dots.
It was while studying the skeletons that one of the team stumbled on a large, round
stone disk, about two centimeters thick (0.8 inch), half buried in the dust on the floor of the cave. The team
gathered around the discovery, trying to make some sense of the object. It looked, absurdly, like a sort of Stone
Age gramophone record. There was a hole in the center and a fine groove, spiraling out from the center to the rim.
Under closer inspection, however, it was obvious that the groove was, in fact, a continuous inscribed double-line of
closely packed characters. This one plate, dated to be between 10,000 and 12,000 years old -- older by far than
the great pyramids of Egypt. After a thorough search of the caves, an additional 715 plates were found! Each disc
was 22.7 cm (9 inches) in diameter and 2 cm (3/4 inch) thick. Each disc also had a perfectly circular 2 cm hole in
the exact center. The outside edges were regularly indented all the way around, almost like the fluting on a pie
crust. Each disc also had a twin groove which began at the center hole and gradually moved in an expanding
counterclockwise spiral to the outer rim, bearing a striking similarity to modern phonograph records. Only nobody at
the time was able to decipher the messages they contained. The discs were labeled and filed away among other
finds in the area. Even those who knew of their existence knew nothing of their meaning.
Many experts tried to translate the inscriptions in the two decades during which the discs were stored away in
Beijing, but without success. 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
discs were so shattering that they were officially suppressed. The Prehistory Department of the Beijing Academy
forbade him to publish his findings.
Dr. Tsum Um Nui felt the smooth face of the disk with the palm of his hand. "What could this disk possibly be?" he
wondered. He knew of its recent history; how it was discovered in 1938 by a Chinese archaeologist in a cave high in
the Himalayans, along with 715 similar disks; how buried nearby were skeletons of a strange tribe of people
averaging only a little over four feet high; how it was found that each disk was inscribed with a tiny groove that
spiraled around its face, and that the groove turned out to be an unknown hieroglyphic.
He also knew how the disks, as remarkable as they were, had been simply labeled along with other finds of the
expedition and stored away at Beijing University for 20 years.
During that time, others had attempted to decipher the strange inscriptions, but without success. Perhaps now, in
1962, he could.
The professor painstakingly transcribed the characters from the disk to paper. The writing was so small he had to
use a magnifying glass to see it clearly. But the stones were old -- perhaps 12,000 years old, it was estimated --
and much of the hieroglyphics were difficult to make out or had been worn away by time and the elements.
As he worked, many questions nagged the professor.
How did these primitive people fashion these precise stones?
How did they manage the almost microscopic writing?
Who were they and what was the purpose of these hundreds of stones?
Once the characters were transcribed, Dr. Tsum Um Nui began the arduous task of trying to decode its message.
Eventually, he began to make progress. A word emerged. Then another. A phrase became understandable, then
an entire sentence. He had broken the code.
He discerned that the messages on the stones were written by a people who called themselves the Dropa.
But what they were saying to him 12,000 years later made no sense. What the Dropa had written must have been
one of their cultural myths, or was part of some prehistoric religious ceremony. Or was it?
When he had completed the translation as much as he could, the professor sat back in his chair in disbelief.
The story the Dropa related was nothing short of astounding. How would his colleagues react?
How might the world react if this story was true? The professor wrote up a paper on his findings and presented it to
the university for publication.
The deciphered records contain a story which may be upsetting to some and absurd or bizarre to others. The
records told of a space probe by the inhabitants of another planet which came to an abrupt halt in the
Bayan-Kara-Ula mountain range. The strange, spiral script told of how the peaceful intentions of theirs had been
misunderstood and how many of them were hunted down and killed by members of the Kham tribe, who lived in the
neighboring caves.
According to Tsum Um Nui, one of the lines of the hieroglyphs read, "The Dropas (aka Dzopas, due to the fact that
the sound of the second consonant is in between a 'Z' and an 'R') 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 (the Kham) understood the
sign language of the Dropas, they realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions." Another section expressed
regret by the local Kham tribe that the aliens' spaceship had crash-landed in such a remote and inaccessible
mountain range and that there had been no possibility of building a new one to enable the Dropas to return to their
own planet.
Their reaction was swift and emphatic: the paper would not be published. The Academy of Prehistory expressly
forbade him to publish or even speak of his findings. The world, the academy decided, should not know about the
Dropa and their fateful journey to Earth. Dr. Tsum Um Nui's findings were eventually published, however.
Just two years later, he published the paper entitled, "The Grooved Script Concerning Spaceships Which, as
Recorded on the Discs, Landed on Earth 12,000 Years Ago."
By some accounts, the academy relented and gave permission to the professor to publish the paper, and by other
accounts he published it despite the official ban.
In either case, his translation and his theory were met with ridicule by the archaeology establishment. The
translation was just too shattering to be taken at face value or as an historical account. It just could not be true. It
would change everything we know about our history and humankind's place in the universe.
In cooperation with geologists and after spectrographic analysis, it was found that the plates had a high cobalt and
metal content (the metals involved are not, though, referenced in the available sources). That implied an artificial
origin of the plates; they were not of diorite as previously thought. The hardness of the material, however,
compared to diorite.
Russian scientists asked to see the discs and several were sent to Moscow for examination. They were cleaned
free of rock particles which had stuck to them and then put through analysis which corroborated the findings of
Chinese scientists. That was not all. When placed on a special turntable, they vibrated or hummed with a high
frequency resonance, which led to the conclusion that they had been exposed to very high voltages at some point
in time. Or as one scientist suggested, "as if they formed some part of an electrical circuit."
In 1963, Dr. Tsum Um Nui decided to publish the findings in spite of the position of the Academy. The paper
appeared under a long-winded but intriguing title, "The Grooved Script concerning Space-ships which, as recorded
on the Discs, landed on Earth 12,000 years ago". It was not taken seriously in the West and, in short time, the
whole matter seemed to fade into oblivion. That is, until 1967, when Russian philologist Dr. Viatcheslav Zaitsev
published the extracts from the stone-plate story in the Sputnik Magazine. Allegedly, the whole story is preserved in
the Beijing Academy, as well as in the historical archives of Taipei, R.O.C.
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In the years since the discovery of the skeletons and discs, archeologists and
anthropologists had learned more about the isolated Bayan-Kara-Ula area.
And much of the information seemed to corroborate the astonishing story
recorded on the discs. Legend still preserved in the area tells of small, yellow
faced folks who came from the clouds, long, long ago. These people had huge,
bulging heads and spindly bodies and were so ugly and repellent that they were
hounded down by local tribesmen. Curiously, the description of the perceived
invaders, tallied with the skeletons originally discovered in the caves by Professor
Chi Pu Tei. Along with the discs, the cave drawings and skeletons had been
dated to around 10,000 BCE!!
At the time of the discovery, the cave area was still inhabited by two tribes known
as the Khams and the Dropas, themselves extremely odd in appearance. The
tribes simply did not fit into any racial category established by anthropologists.
For one thing, they were both of pygmy stature. The tallest and shortest adults had measured 4 ft. 7 in. and 3 ft.
6 in. respectively, but the average height was 4 ft. 2 in. They were yellow-skinned. Their heads were
disproportionately large and sparsely haired, and their eyes were large but not Oriental in aspect, with pale bluish
irises. Their features were very nicely formed, most nearly approximating Caucasian, and their bodies were
extremely thin and delicate. Adult weight was estimated to average about 38 to 52 pounds.
In 1995 there was a remarkable news report from China: In the province of Sichuan, which lies on the eastern
border of the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains, 120 people of a previously ethnologically unclassified tribe were
discovered. The most important aspect of this new tribe was the size of its people: No taller than 3 ft. 10 in.; the
smallest adult measured only 2 ft. 1 in.! This discovery was the first 'hard evidence' which verified the existence of
the Dropa/Dzopa - a people whose predecessors are said to have come from outerspace.
Whatever their true nature, origin, or meaning, the Dropa stones present an intriguing puzzle for archaeologists
and anthropologists. Were the Dropas truly visitors from some distant planet, or is their story merely a creation
myth imagined by a primitive culture? If the latter is true, it adds one more such "myth" to the large number of
stories from ancient cultures that claim their descendants came to Earth from the heavens, and that also have
remarkably accurate astronomical knowledge. And if the former is true, the Dropa stones could represent the first
recorded visit of an alien civilization to our planet.... Maybe not, the strong possibility does exist given recent
information that an alien time traveling species has peppered our history with "enigmas' that make it seem that
these are ancient artifacts. We will be exploring this concept as we proceed in Eyepod... The Alien Chronicles.
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