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ALIEN VISITORS TO ANCIENT _ spindly bodies and large, overdeveloped CHINA? nas, _ 3 At first, it had been thought that the High in the mountains of Bayan Kara caves had been the home of an hitherto Ula, on the borders of China and Tibet, 4 unknown species of ape. But as the leader team of archaeologists were conducting 4 of the team—the Chinese archaeologist, very detailed routine survey of a series of Professor Chi Pu Tei—pointed out, "Who interlinked caves. , ever heard of apes burying each other?” _Their interests had been excited by the J was while studying the skeletons that discovery of lines of neatly arranged graves one of the team stumbled on a large, round which contained the skeletons of what must tone disc, half buried in the dust on the have been a strange race of human beings; —_fjgor of the cave. strange because they had unnaturally The team gathered round the discovery, tum- ing it this way and that. It — looked, absurdly, like a 29° oa © Oy kind of Stone Age gramo- phone record. There was a hole in the centre and a fine, spiral groove radiat- ed to the rim. Closer inspection, how- ever, showed that the groove was, in fact, a con- tinuous spiralling line of closely written characters. The object was a ‘record’, in more ways then one. Only nobody at > the time—the year was Poe 97 1938—possessed the key to its incredible message. The disc was labelled 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 hicro- glyphs in the 20 years the disc languished in Beijing. 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 realised. Realised, that is, by only a sclect few. The outside world remained in ignorance. For the professor's conclusions on the meaning of the disc were so shattering that they were officially suppressed. The Peking Academy of Prehistory forbade him to pub- lish 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 con- cerning Spaceships 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 moun- tain range. The strange, spiral script told ALIEN VISITORS TO ANCIENT CHINA? Qwm__\< _& . —st Titi EL , ee ced NEXUS¢*59 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1994