Have you ever wondered if aliens have landed on earth? Well lets take this question a step further, have you ever wondered if aliens after having landed on earth decided to stay or had no way to leave? You say you think your boss is an alien, well maybe, who knows for sure, but a lot of people insist that the Dropa are aliens. The question is, why would anybody think that a race of people were descended from aliens?

Lets look at the Dropa and find out a little more about them. The Dropa are a people that live between China and Tibet in caves. There are caves that are inhabited by two tribes the Hans and the Dropa. In physical appearance it is said that the Dropa have an old appearance, they are short, the tallest being about five feet in height with the averang being under four feet, and their builds are very slight. The other tribe the Hans now looks the same. Neither tribe looks Chinese or Tibetan.

Now lets get back to the question of why on earth would people think the Dropa are the descendants of aliens? The story goes this way, in 1938 while a survey was being conducted of the caves in the area, by archaeologists, they discovered some strange graves. The occupants of these graves left their skeletons behind as is often the case. The skeletons had very large heads but very thin frail bodies. No one was sure if the creatures in the graves were even human. The story would have ended here, unsettled, except for the next discovery. It was a large round stone disk and it was on the cave floor. Even this stone was strange because it had the appearance of a large record, you know, the kind that used to be used on a record player. The stone even had grooves cut into it, like record grooves. The grooves turned out to be extremely small characters written very close together. The weight of the disks is estimated at one kilogram or two pounds, and the diameter at 28 to 30 centimeters, making them about one foot in diameter.

You would think that everyone would be running to translate this disk, wouldn't you? Well you would be wrong. The disk lay in storage for over twenty years with the occasional scientist looking at it. But then it happened. Dr. Tsum Um Nui broke the code, and the information on the disk started to flow. I don't know if this part is true, but it is say that he was prevented from publishing the translation. Well, be that as it may, there was another find. It was 1965 and a cache of 716 more disks were found in the caves again. It is said that these disks contained a strange story that went like this:

There was a space ship flying over the earth when something went terribly wrong. The ship crashed into the mountain range known as the Baya Kara Ula range. Since the occupants of the ship did not look like the humans that inhabited the region, and were ugly by human standards, they were hunted down after the crash and many of them were killed. They had no way to repair their ship and I guess no way to contact anyone else for help. We are talking about a crash that took place around 12,000 years ago. The date is derived by dating the drawings on the caves of the region. The drawings consist of pictures of the heavens, including known stars, that are connected by large dots.

Do these stone records contain some other message, that we can not yet decipher? Nothing else has been discovered yet but Russian scientists have tested the stones and when they are spun they hum. Unfortunately Professor Tsum Um Nui is now deceased. The stone disks seem to have disappeared, yes that's right, all 717 of them. Two had been sighted in 1974 by an Australian at Banpo Museum at Xi'an, where he photographed them, but now they are gone also.

In order for us to believe that the Dropa are descended from aliens that crashed on this planet we would have to believe that after the crash they lost all their technology over time. It is possible, especially if the ones who were the engineers and scientists were killed, leaving the ordinary Dropa. Just imagine a ship load of people. Only a few know how to sail or repair the ship. Further imagine that all the passengers are just ordinary people, or that maybe there are a few hundred people but only one or two is an engineer or scientist. The ship crashes into a reef, the captain and crew are killed and of 300 passengers only 17 survive, none of whom have any technological skill. They float to a desert island and they and their descendants remain there for 12000 years, undiscovered. Finally an explorer comes across them. What does he find, technology? Probably not, more likely huts and spears.

Some people are using the argument that it would be impossible for a race of people to exist that are so small unless alien DNA was controlling their growth. They seem to totally disregard the fact that the pigmy exists in Africa. Another think I find curious, is the fact that stone records were found when records were very popular. It does seem a little too convenient. Maybe it is time for a study of the Dropa DNA. Could the Dropa be aliens, well in any event, I guess anything is possible and there does seem to be some evidence to warrant further investigation, what do you think?