26 July, 2021

RIDDLE OF ASIAN STONE DISCS 'FROM OUTER SPACE' | February 26, 1967 | The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

Russian archaeologists are puzzling over a remarkable collection of stone discs, thousands of years old, found in the mountains bordering China and Tibet. So hard is it to explain them in terms of earthly experience that the archaeologists do not rule out the possibility that the discs may have come from outer space.

A total of 716 discs, like Stone Age 'gramophone records' have been picked up in recent years by men exploring caves in the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountain range, reports the Soviet Union's new English-language magazine, Sputnik.

Each disc has a central hole and irregular grooves spiraling out to the edge, but the report says (quite seriously) that the grooves are not sound tracks. It is thought that they are some form of ancient writing, but scientists ave so far failed to decipher them.

Chinese archaeologists estimate that the discs are about 12,000 years old, but have made no headway at all in trying to explain their purpose or how they came to be in the caves.

The Russians, who have examined some of the discs in a Moscow laboratory, claim to have made two important discoveries. One is that the discs contain certain traces of metal - particularly cobalt.

The second discovery, according to Vyacheslav Zaitsev, author of the Sputnik report, is that the discs when scrapped free of rock particles 'vibrate as if they carried an electric charge.

Zaitsev, who has spent 30 years collecting evidence that intelligent beings from outer space have had contact with the earth, believes that the discs may give substance to ancient Chinese legends of 'small, gaunt, yellow-faced men who came down the clouds' many centuries ago.

'In some of the Bayan-Kara-Ula caves,' he writes, 'archaeologists and speleologists have found 12,000-year old vestiges of graves and skeletons. The remains belong to human beings with huge craniums and underdeveloped skeletons.'

'The Chinese expeditions which discovered the burial grounds reported that they had found an extinct species of ape,' adds Zaitsev. 'But so far as is known apes do not bury each other in graves or write hieroglyphic symbols on stone discs.'

 

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