SUBJECT: A STRANGE RACE OF HUMAN BEINGS                      FILE:UFO2656





   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, overdeveloped 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
   meaning  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 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 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.




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