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© 1995 by Filip Coppens Chief Editor, Frontiel" 2000 P<:iBox372, B250A) Dronten The Netherlands Phone: +31 (3210) 80558 Fax: +31 (3210) Hl892 E-maH: rsfFi Ico@gki,be DECEMBER 1995 • JANUARY 1996 Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Chinese archaeologists stumbled upon a cave containing small skeletal remains. Alongside the bodies they found stone discs that were only deciphered 20 years later. They seemed to tell of an extraterrestrial craft that had crash-landed In the mountain range of Balan-Kara·Ula 12,000 years ago. The Western media treated the news with the usual attitude of "communist propaganda-do not believe a word of It". But Hartwig Hausdorf recently returned from ChIna with a different tale to tell. The discs exist-and do indeed seem to Indicate that representatives from a spacefaring alien race visited the Chinese mountain area In antiquity. Slowly, the mountains of Baian-Kara-U1a, along the Chinese-Tibetan border, were starting to reveal their secrets. Scientists had stumbled upon an intricate network of con necting caves. In one of them they carne across the neatly ordered graves of a race that appeared most peculiar, strange even: short bodies, except for the skull which was unpro portionately large. At first, the scientists believed the caves had been the habitat of mon keys; but their leader, archaeologist Professor Chi Pu Tei, pointed out he had never heard of monkeys burying their dead. During the unearthing of the bodies, an archaeologist recovered a stone disc from the bollom of a grave. All the archaeologists gathered around the artefact and turned it in every direction, trying to figure out what it had to mean. A circular hole in the midGie and a groove spiralling inward or outward, however you wanted to look at it, were the only apparent features. Had tbey stumbled upon a Stone Age LP? Did 'The Flintstones" really exist? Closer inspection showed that the grooves were actually a line of small carvings or signs. Each disc was a book, but, upon their discovery in 1938, nobody possessed the dic tionary so no one was able to read them. All the discs were collected and stored along with the other findings made in the area. There was no reason to consider these stone discs special or important; perhaps just odd. The discs were kept in Peking, where, for the next 20 years, a line of experts tried to decipher the writing. Nobody succeeded. But, in 1962, Professor Dr Tsum Urn Nui did succeed, and learnt of the astonishing message the discs contained. He announced his findings to a small group of friends and colleagues, hut the public remained unaware of his discovery. The public was purposefully kept in the dark, for the authorities felt it wise nol to announce the professor's findings. The Peking Academy of Prehistory forbade the professor from publishing anything about the discs, After two years of probably utter frustration, the professor and four of his colleagues were finally allowed to publish the conclusions of their research. They decided to call it "The cartelled script relating to the spaceship that, as is written on the discs, descended on Earth 12,000 years ago". The discs, 716 of which were retrieved from one cave, told the story'of inhabitants of another world stuck in the mountains of Baian-Kara-Ula. The peaceful intentions of these people had not been comprehended by the local population. Many extraterrestrials had been chased and killed by members of the Han trihe, living in nearby eaves. Professor Tsum Urn Nui offered a few lines of his translation: TheDropacameQutofthecloudsintheiraeroplanes. Beforesunrise,ourmen,women and children hid in the qwes ten times. When they finally understood the sign language ofthe Dropa, they realised the newcomers had peaceful intentions... Another pan of the tellt slated the Han tribe regretted that the Dropa had crashed in this remote area and that lhey were unable to build a new spaceship so the Dropa could return to their home planet. NEXUS. 59