Controversies Ī Han-era bì (璧), 16 centimetres (6.3 in) in diameter. In Japan, they were mentioned in 1996 when a translated version of Hartwig Hausdorf and Peter Krassa's Satelliten der Götter ('Satellites of the Gods') was released. Gamon later revealed in the British publication Fortean Times that his book was his "favorite hoax" and a satire. He was told that they had crashed there long ago and that their ancestor had come from a planet in the Sirius constellation. Robin-Evans allegedly lived among the Dropa for half a year and during that time he learned their language and history, and also impregnated one of the Dropa women. According to his book, the Dropa population consisted of a few hundred members all of which were approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) tall.
It follows his supposed travels into the secluded region of the Bayan Har mountain range where he finds dwarfish people called the Dropa. This book is written as if it were a documentary of a 1947 expedition with the scientist Karyl Robin-Evans. They are mentioned in the 1978 book Sungods in Exile by David Agamon (real name David A. Publications Ī reference to the Dropa and Dropa stones is found in the July 1962 edition of the German vegetarian magazine Das vegetarische Universum. By 1994, the discs and the manager had disappeared from the museum. He claims that in his photos the hieroglyphs cannot be seen as they have been hidden by the flash from the camera and have also deteriorated. It is said that when he inquired about the discs the manager could tell him nothing, but permitted him to take one in his hand and photograph them up close. Supposedly, Ernst Wegerer (Wegener) was an Austrian engineer who, in 1974, visited the Banpo Museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, where he saw two of the Dropa stones. Vyacheslav Zaitsev describes an experiment where the discs were supposedly placed on a special turntable whereby they were shown to 'vibrate' or 'hum' in an unusual rhythm as though an electric charge was passing through them. As recorded in the Soviet magazine Sputnik, Dr. Once there, it is said that they were scraped for loose particles and put through a chemical analysis which revealed that they contained large amounts of cobalt and other metallic substances. Russian researchers requested the discs for studying, and allegedly several were shipped to Moscow.
Shortly afterwards he is said to have gone to Japan in a self-imposed exile, where he died not long after he completed the manuscript of his work.
Tsum Um Nui is said to have published his findings in 1962 in a professional journal, and was subsequently ridiculed and met with disbelief. When at last we understood the sign language of the Dropas, we realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions". Our men, women and children hid in the caves ten times before sunrise.
Tsum Um Nui noted specifically that one glyph apparently said: "The Dropa came down from the clouds in their aircraft. Further, his research claims that the Dropa people were hunted down and killed by the local Han Chinese for a period. He announced that he had deciphered them into a story that told of a spacecraft that crash landed in the area of the cave, the Bayan Har Mountains, and that the ship contained the Dropa people who could not fix it and therefore had to adapt to Earth. In 1962 Tsum Um Nui ( Chinese: 楚聞明 pinyin: Chǔ Wénmíng) was reported to have concluded that the grooves on the discs were actually very tiny hieroglyphs, none of which were of a pattern that had been seen before, and which can only be seen with the use of a magnifying glass.