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'Tsum Um Nui now had four scientists who supported his theory. In 1963 he decided to publish it in spite of the Academy's doubts. I have heard that his publication was known to you in the west, but was not taken seriously. Over here, too, only a few courageous scholars took any notice of the stone plate theory. Very recently our philologist Dr Vyatcheslav Saizev published extracts from the stone plate story for the periodical Sputnik. The whole story is preserved in the Peking Academy and the historical archives of Taipeh in Formosa.' The story is only upsetting and bizarre to people who are unwilling to face things that may throw new light on our origin. The stone plate story says that 12,000 years ago, reckoned from today, a group of their people had crashed on to the third planet in this system. Their aircraft—that is an exact translation of the groove hieroglyphs—had no longer had enough power to leave this world again. They had been destroyed in the remote and inaccessible mountains. There had been no means and materials for building new aircraft.’ "Yes, and then we are told that these beings who had crashed on to the earth had tried to make friends with the inhabitants of the mountains, but had been hunted down and killed. The story ends almost literally: "Men, women and children hid themselves in the caves until sunset. Then they believed the sign and saw that the others had come with peaceful intentions this time ..." That's more or less how it ends.' 'There are the graves in rows, the rock drawings and the plates themselves. And there are also the Chinese sagas which precisely in the Baian Kara Ula region tell of small spindly yellow beings who came down from the clouds. The myth goes on to say that the alien creatures were shunned by the wo Dropas because of their ugliness, indeed that they were killed by the men in "the quick way". known?' My companion laughed, put his hand on my arm and said with mild resignation: 'Here in Moscow the story is known, you only need to keep your ears open. But the story contains too many facts which cannot be slotted straight into the painfully constructed chronology of archaeology and anthropology. Authorities who attach importance to their reputation in the scientific world would have to abandon a great deal of their own theories if they were to take serious notice of Baian Kara Ula. Surely it is very human to take the easy way out? To keep silent or laugh discreetly and condescendingly? When recognised scientists stick together and smile or say nothing, the boldest man loses enthusiasm in a subject that is too hot to handle.’ ‘Please go on!' "What is so explosive and shocking about the stone plate story?’ ‘Ts all that written on the stone plates?’ Is there anything else that corroborates the contents of the stone plate story?’ 'Kassanzev, why isn't this fascinating story discussed all over the world? Is it really well enough