The Dropa Disc’s of China

An Early Version of the Phaistos Disc of Greece?

or Perhaps

 Early Phonograph Records?

The Phaistos Disc (side A)

Dropa (also Dropas, Drok-pa or Dzopa,) is the name given by the ancient Chinese to an alleged race of dwarf-like extraterrestrials that landed or “fell from the sky” near the Chinese-Tibetan  border more than twelve thousand years ago.

The existence of such beings was you might say were “re-discovered” when Chi Pu Tei, a Chinese professor of archeology at Beijing University; in 1938 he and several of his students were on an expedition to explore a series of caves in the remote Bayan Kara Ula range of the Himalayan mountains, near the region of Qinghai. Upon entering the caves it became apparent that the caves had been artificially carved into a system of tunnels and underground storerooms. The walls were described as being squared and glazed, as if cut into the mountain with great heat.

The explorers said to they also found numerous orderly rows of tombs that contained rather short (4.5 foot / 138 cm) skeletons buried within. The skeletal remains were described as having larger than normally heads coupled with small, thin, fragile bodies.

No epitaphs at the graves were reported, but there were hundreds of 12 inch / 30 cm wide stone discs that came to be called “Dropa Stones”; each with a small hole at their centers. The stone discs were said to be inscribed with two fine grooves spiraling from the edge to a small (3/4 inch / 20 cc) hole in the disc's center and weighing about 2 pounds each; they were said to resemble the clay “Phaistos Disc” that was discovered in 1908 on the Greek island of Crete which is currently on display in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum of Crete. Another description simply calls them a prehistoric phonograph record. The discs were reportedly labeled along with other finds of the expedition and stored away at Beijing University for 20 years, during which time all deciphering attempts were unsuccessful.

Approximately about 20 years later the discs were reportedly examined by a Dr. Tsum Um Nui of Beijing beginning around 1958, he concluded after an in-depth study that each groove consisted of a series of tiny hieroglyphs of unknown pattern and origin. The rows of hieroglyphs were so small in fact that a magnifying glass was needed to see them clearly. Although several hieroglyphics had been worn away by erosion,  according to Dr. Tsum’s deciphered version of the symbols, they told the story of a crash-landing of the Dropa spaceship that had originated in the Sirius Star System and the ultimate slaughter of the majority of the survivors of the crash by the local inhabitants.

One of the best preserved discs was dated as being fashioned sometime between 10,000 and 12,000 BC.  A total of 716 such discs / plates were reportedly recovered; each holding its own mystery.

At first sight, this appears to be a fantastic story that validates early contact with extraterrestrials or ancient astronauts; however there appears to be no credible evidence of record proving that the discs actually exist, or that an individual named Dr. Tsum Um Nui from Beijing ever existed. Apparently however there was a Chi Pu Tei, who was a Chinese professor of archeology at Beijing University; in 1938.

Supporters of the story insist that Dr. Tsum Um Nui’s findings were squelched or subdued by the Chinese academic community due to their controversial nature which led to the good doctor’s relocation to Japan, once there he changed his name and died in 1965 a broken man.  In short, it comes as little surprise that such alleged events in regard to the Dropa Disc’s are often referred to as “China’s Roswell”.

Sources:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/esp_dropa_11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disk htm  http://ufocasebook.com/chinesedisks.html                                  http://www.zuko.com/CrypticSphere/Droppa_Stones_Unsolved_Mysteries.asp