Dropas Crash: 10,000 BC.
Dropas Crash: 10,000 BC - Sino-Tibetan Border


and large, over-developed heads.
burying each other?"


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.

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


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

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

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.

and spindly with disproportionately large skulls.






The Message of the Dropas:


"What could this disk possibly be?" he wondered.




The professor painstakingly transcribed the characters from the disk to paper.

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?



Eventually, he began to make progress.




What the Dropa had written must have been one of their cultural myths, or was part of some prehistoric religious ceremony. Or was it?


The story the Dropa related was nothing short of astounding.

How would his colleagues react?





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."


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

What the Stones Reveal


The occupants of the spacecraft - the Dropa - found refuge in the caves of the mountains. Despite their peaceful intentions, the Dropa were misunderstood by members of the Ham tribe who were









Supposedly, there also is an ancient Chinese tale that might bear-out the Dropa's claims.


Strange Properties

In 1968, the Dropa stones came to the attention of W. Saitsew, a Russian scientist who re-published the findings of Tsum Um Nui and conducted tests on the disks that revealed some very peculiar

with such minute characters.




If the latter is true, it adds one more such "myth" to the large number of stories from ancient cultures that claim their descendents came to Earth from the heavens.

The Dropas:
Ancient texts from the Vedas might be about the Dropas crash and related events.

From: Srimad Bhaghavatam, Sixth Canto, Part 3:
One time while King Citaketu was travelling in outer space on a brilliantly effulgent aeroplane given to him by Lord Vishnu, he saw Lord Shiva..." "The arrows released by Lord Shiva appeared like
fiery beams emanating from the sun globe and covered the three residential aeroplanes, which could then no longer be seen.

From: Bhaktivedanta, Swami Prabhupada.
"The aeroplane occupied by Salva was very mysterious. It was so extraordinary that sometimes many aeroplanes would appear to be in the sky, and sometimes there were apparently none. Sometimes
the plane was visible and sometimes not visible, and the warriors of the Yadu dynasty were puzzled about the whereabouts of the peculiar aeroplane. Sometimes they would see the aeroplane on the
ground, sometimes flying in the sky, sometimes resting on the peak of a hill and sometimes floating on the water. The wonderful aeroplane flew in the sky like a whirling firebrand, it was not steady even
for a moment."

Dzopas/Dropas Rulers:
Photo taken by Dr. Karyl Robin-Evans during his 1947 expedition
Shows the Dzopa ruling couple Hueypah-La (4 ft. tall) and Veez-La
(3 ft. 4 in. tall).
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