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A Lecture on the Dropas
by Hartwig Hausdorf
(I translated the following lecture -- originally in German --
using an online translator. I have made only a few corrections in spelling and
punctuation. -- Webmaster, Inquiring-Mines.com.)
References: This lecture is
by Hartwig Hausdorf, German author of UFO & Ancient Astronaut Theory,
it was given on August 9, 1997 at Lucy & Orlando Pl� house in San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
During the last years, lost of dogmatic truths were pushed
down from their throne, because there are indications that our past was more
fantastic than we can imagine. Light fell down on so many mysteries from
millenniums long gone. Let me take you on the trace of two enigmas from Ancient
China.
I want to begin with a mystery of the Century which allegedly
was discovered 60 years ago. It's ranking around a UFO-crash that probably
happened at a time 12,000 years prior to now a "Chinese Roswell" if
you like this term. First I will like to introduce you to that intriguing story.
It was at the turn of the year 1937 to 1938, when an
expedition led by archeologist Chi Pu-Tei came across the pathless mountain area
of Bayan-Kara-Ula, located in the Chinese province of Qinghai. In some caves,
they discovered lots of tombs with numerous strange looking skeletons buried
inside. All the buried had an abnormal big head, along with a small, thin and
fragile body.
There were no epitaphs at the graves, but a number of 716
stone disc with strange-looking hieroglyphs on them. From a hole in the center
of each disk, a spiral-like groove went to its rim, and the archeologist had no
idea which information were hidden in these hieroglyphs. It was not before the
early sixties, when Beijing fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Professor Tsum Um
Nui, succeeded in translating some passages of the inscriptions on the stone
discs. But when completing on his report, lots of trouble came to the brave man:
The Academy of Sciences banned his publication of the result of his research
work. It's not surprising when we consider the unusual conclusion, that Tsum Um
Nui and four assistant fellows came upon: They were certain that the hieroglyphs
on the stone-disks were talking about the crash of an alien spacecraft, that
happened in this mountain area some 12,000 years prior to now!
After lots of quarrels and fights, Tsum Um Nui got the
permission to publish his work. Herein, he told the story of alien beings called
DROPA, who crashed down in the Baya-Kara-Ula mountains after a long space flight
and had no possibility to repair their craft. The scientific establishment
considered the whole story as nonsense, and Professor Tsum Um Nui was said to be
a complete fool.
What the skeptics ignored was the fact, that in the Qinghai
province, in the area of Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains, old traditions tell about
small and skinny, ugly beings with big and clumsy heads, who came down from the
skies a long time ago. People have always been afraid of the strange-looking
invaders from the clouds.
So shortly after publishing his report, Professor Tsum Um Nui
emigrated to Japan. Embittered from the reactions from the scientific
establishment, he died shortly after completing a manuscript about the
stone-disk-mystery.
There was much criticism on Tsu Um Nui's person. Skeptics
said, that the name of the Professor does not exist in Chinese language, neither
in Mandarin nor in Canton Chinese. But in my book "Satelliten der
Gotter" (Satellites of the Gods), co-authored by Peter Krass, we
could point out from where the name was originating. A friend's wife, born in
Singapore and speaking fluently Japanese, told us, that Tsum Um Nui is a former
Japanese name, but adapted to Chinese language. Now think about German
immigrants in America: Their former names was Herr Schmid now their name is
adapted to Mr. Smith. Consequently Japan was the right place for the Professor
to retire from his enervating defeat in China.
Primary source for the report on the Bayan-Kara-Ula findings
are information coming from Japan. They were first published in German in the
July, 1962 issue of the magazine "Das vegetarische Universum". And
here the ends could meet one day: In the summer of '96 the book Satellites of
the Gods was published in Japan. Peter Krassa and me hope that Japanese
readers could give us new information on the late Professor Tsum Um Nui. Where
is his burial place? And which library contains his reports on the translation
of the stone disc-hieroglyphs of Bayan-Kara-Ula?
What was obvious for a short time's duration but lost again by
now, are two of those mysterious artifacts. An Austrian engineer had the
opportunity to make these photographs in 1974, when he was on a guided
China-tour. In Banpo-Museaum in Xian, the capital of the Province of Shensi, he
came across two discs which exactly met the descriptions we know from the
Bayan-Kara-Ula report from 1962 and upcoming publications. And he could even
recognize hieroglyphs in spiral-like grooves but partly crumbled way.
Knowing of the artifacts background, Mr. Wegerer asked the
former managers of Banpo-Museum for more details on the pieces in the showcase.
I guess he caused a lot of trouble, because the poor woman didn't know what to
say. She was able to tell a complete story about all the other artifacts made
from clay, but all she could explain about the stone disc was that they are but
unimportant "cult objects".
Anyway - the Austrian engineer was allowed to take one of the
discs in his hand make photographs of both of them. Ladies and Gentlemen, the
photographs I'm showing in this lecture are the only existing in the world, made
of the Baya-Kara-Ula stone platters. Mr. Wegerer estimated their weight at one
kilogram or two pounds, and the diameter at 28 to 30 centimeters, that's one
foot. And there�s been all of the details reported: A hole in the center plus
strange hieroglyphs. I regret they're not to be seen here on the photographs,
because they are crumbled away partly and - for second reason - Mr. Wegener used
a Polaroid camera with integrated flash. This wasn't quite good for the contrast
of the photograph. Peter Krassa got these photographs not before the end of the
eighty's.
And this was the status quo when Peter and me tried to take up
trace of this mystery of the Century directly in China. It wasn�t that easy to
do research work on an event that could be compared easily with the Roswell Case
in the United Sates. Meanwhile, China had suffered under the "Proletarian
Cultural Revolution" that raged from 1966 till 1976. Lots of people and
innumerable cultural objects of value fell victim to this ruthless rage. I'm
sure this was the reason for a great number of artifacts to be dislocated from
the Capital Beijing into the provinces.
In March, 1994, Professor Wang Zhijun, Director of the Banpo-Museum,
welcomed us for a discussion on the stone disc. At first, he wasn't willing to
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