China Scientists to Probe 'ET' Launch Tower

Yahoo News ^ | FR post 07-21-02 | BEIJING (Reuters)

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BEIJING (Reuters) - A team of Chinese scientists is to head out to the far west of the country to investigate a mystery pyramid that local legend says is a launch tower left by aliens from space, Xinhua news agency said Wednesday.

Nine scientists would probe origins of the 165 to 198-foot tall structure -- dubbed "the ET relics" -- in the western province of Qinghai this month, the agency said.

It sits on Mount Baigong, has three caves with triangular openings on its facade and is filled with red-hued pipes leading into the mountain and a nearby salt water lake, Xinhua said. Rusty iron scraps, pipes and unusually shaped stones were scattered around the inhospitable and largely uninhabited area, it said.

A research fellow at a nearby observatory of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said the theory the pyramid was created by extra terrestrials was "understandable and worth looking into," it added

Xinhua did not report any details on the age of the structure, or any other possible explanations for it.

[vannrox]

China has been really looking into a number of strange sites lately. I wonder why.

[gg188]

For callers north of the Great Wall, you can reach Art Bell at....

....south of the Great Wall, call ....

(Sorry...couldn't resist:-)

[jaz.357]

You NEVER see photos of this site.

[Alas Babylon!]

Maybe they're like the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark. They could be looking for that little supernatural edge to help them win the Big One.

[Husker24]

They must not be getting the free info. like they got under Clinton for their space program, they must be getting desparate.

[Consort]

...and Stonehenge was a drydock (keel blocks) for repairing or maintaining UFOs.

[TaxPayer2000]

I believe the reason china has been looking into alot of anchient sites lately is due to the fact that vast areas are about to be covered with water due to the construction of the damn. ?????

[spycatcher]

Chinese Scientists to Head for Suspected ET Relics

A couple small pictures here...

Mysterious Pipes Left by 'ET' Reported from Qinghai

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Chinese Scientists to Head for Suspected ET Relics

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Xinhuanet 2002-06-19 16:17:14

¡¡¡¡DELINGHA (QINGHAI), June 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A group of nine Chinese scientists will go to west China's Qinghai Province this month to closely examine the relics thought by some to have been left by extraterrestrial beings (ET). 

¡¡¡¡It will be the first time scientists seriously study the mysterious site near Delingha City in the depths of the Qaidam Basin, according to government sources with the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where Delingha is located.

¡¡¡¡The site, known by local people as "the ET relics", is on MountBaigong about 40 kilometers to the southwest of Delingha City.

¡¡¡¡On the north of the mountain are twin lakes dubbed as the "lover Lakes", one with fresh water and the other with salty water.

¡¡¡¡The so-called ET relics structure is located on the south bank of the salty lake. It looks like a pyramid and is between 50 to 60meters high.

¡¡¡¡At the front of the pyramid are three caves with triangular openings. The cave in the middle is the biggest, with its floor standing two meters above the ground and its top eight meters above the ground.

¡¡¡¡This cave is about six meters in depth. Inside there is a half-pipe about 40 centimeters in diameter tilting from the top to the inner end of the cave. Another pipe of the same diameter goes intothe earth with only its top visible above the ground.

¡¡¡¡Above the cave are a dozen pipes of various diameters which runinto the mountain.

¡¡¡¡All the pipes are red brownish, the same color as that of surrounding rocks.

¡¡¡¡The two smaller caves have collapsed and are inaccessible.

¡¡¡¡Scattered about the caves and on the bank of the salty lake area large number of rusty scraps, pipes of various diameters and strangely shaped stones. Some of the pipes run into the lake.

¡¡¡¡According to Qin Jianwen, head of the publicity department of the Delingha government, the scraps were once taken to a local smeltery for analysis.

¡¡¡¡The result shows that they are made up of 30 percent ferric oxide with a large amount of silicon dioxide and calcium oxide. Eight percent of the content could not be identified.

¡¡¡¡"The large content of silicon dioxide and calcium oxide is a result of long interaction between iron and sandstone, which meansthe pipes must be very old," said Liu Shaolin, the engineer who did the analysis.

¡¡¡¡"This result has made the site even more mysterious," Qin said."Nature is harsh here. There are no residents let alone modern industry in the area, only a few migrant herdsmen to the north of the mountain."

¡¡¡¡Someone has suggested that the site might have been a launch tower left by ET.

¡¡¡¡The area is high in altitude, with thin and transparent air. Itis an ideal place to practice astronomy, Qin said.

¡¡¡¡In fact, the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academyof Sciences has a large radio telescope just 70 kilometers from the site.

¡¡¡¡Yang Ji, a research fellow at the observatory, said the hypothesis of ET relics is understandable and worth of looking into.

¡¡¡¡"But scientific means must be employed to prove whether or not it is true," he added. Enditem

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Chinese Scientists to Head for Suspected ET Relics

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Xinhuanet 2002-06-19 16:17:14

¡¡¡¡DELINGHA (QINGHAI), June 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A group of nine Chinese scientists will go to west China's Qinghai Province this month to closely examine the relics thought by some to have been left by extraterrestrial beings (ET). 

¡¡¡¡It will be the first time scientists seriously study the mysterious site near Delingha City in the depths of the Qaidam Basin, according to government sources with the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where Delingha is located.

¡¡¡¡The site, known by local people as "the ET relics", is on MountBaigong about 40 kilometers to the southwest of Delingha City.

¡¡¡¡On the north of the mountain are twin lakes dubbed as the "lover Lakes", one with fresh water and the other with salty water.

¡¡¡¡The so-called ET relics structure is located on the south bank of the salty lake. It looks like a pyramid and is between 50 to 60meters high.

¡¡¡¡At the front of the pyramid are three caves with triangular openings. The cave in the middle is the biggest, with its floor standing two meters above the ground and its top eight meters above the ground.

¡¡¡¡This cave is about six meters in depth. Inside there is a half-pipe about 40 centimeters in diameter tilting from the top to the inner end of the cave. Another pipe of the same diameter goes intothe earth with only its top visible above the ground.

¡¡¡¡Above the cave are a dozen pipes of various diameters which runinto the mountain.

¡¡¡¡All the pipes are red brownish, the same color as that of surrounding rocks.

¡¡¡¡The two smaller caves have collapsed and are inaccessible.

¡¡¡¡Scattered about the caves and on the bank of the salty lake area large number of rusty scraps, pipes of various diameters and strangely shaped stones. Some of the pipes run into the lake.

¡¡¡¡According to Qin Jianwen, head of the publicity department of the Delingha government, the scraps were once taken to a local smeltery for analysis.

¡¡¡¡The result shows that they are made up of 30 percent ferric oxide with a large amount of silicon dioxide and calcium oxide. Eight percent of the content could not be identified.

¡¡¡¡"The large content of silicon dioxide and calcium oxide is a result of long interaction between iron and sandstone, which meansthe pipes must be very old," said Liu Shaolin, the engineer who did the analysis.

¡¡¡¡"This result has made the site even more mysterious," Qin said."Nature is harsh here. There are no residents let alone modern industry in the area, only a few migrant herdsmen to the north of the mountain."

¡¡¡¡Someone has suggested that the site might have been a launch tower left by ET.

¡¡¡¡The area is high in altitude, with thin and transparent air. Itis an ideal place to practice astronomy, Qin said.

¡¡¡¡In fact, the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academyof Sciences has a large radio telescope just 70 kilometers from the site.

¡¡¡¡Yang Ji, a research fellow at the observatory, said the hypothesis of ET relics is understandable and worth of looking into.

¡¡¡¡"But scientific means must be employed to prove whether or not it is true," he added. Enditem

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[EternalHope]

Interesting.

[BenLurkin]

Geez, ETs come all this way and the pipes they made rusted. No wonder they left, I guess.

[FormerLurker]

An interesting link..

Chinese Pyramids

[Las Vegas Dave]

Bump...

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Chinese Pyramids

TIBETAN PYRAMIDS

"Great White Pyramid" of "Xian,China" is the "Worlds Largest Pyramid". It is reported to be about 300 meters high.

It is found in Tibet - located in the Qin Ling Shan mountains, about100 km southwest of the city of Xi'an, in the People's Republic of China.

Life Magazine had a picture of this Tibetan Pyramid taken in 1957. The first picture to be seen here was taken from a C-54 in world war II by a pilot who flew supplies through the Himalaya Mountain terrain as a volunteer helping the Chinese.

Hartwig Hausdorf, a researcher in Germany, sent over photographs from his collection, taken during his 1994 trip to the Forbidden Zone in The Shensi Province in China.

Estimates for an age are 4,500 years old. Hausdorf mentions the diaries of two Australian traders who, in 1912, met an old Buddhist monk who told them these pyramids are mentioned in the 5,000 year old records of his monastery as being "very old."

Hausdorf reports: There are over 100 pyramids, made of clay, that have become nearly stone hard over the centuries. Many are damaged by erosion or farming. One pyramid is as large as the Pyramid of the Sun of Teotihuacan in Mexico (which is as large as the Great Pyramid of Giza). Most are flat topped, some have small temples on top. There is a stone pyramid in Shandong, about 50 feet tall. Some incorporate the golden proportion.

Pyramid Built 5000 years ago Found in Inner Mongolia

July 7, 2001 - People's Daily

A three-story pyramid dating 5000 years back has been discovered in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The pyramid, which looks like a trapezoidal hill from afar, is located on a hill one kilometer north of Sijiazi Town, Aohan County. The pyramid is about 30 meters long and 15 meters wide at its base.

This is considered the best-preserved pyramid built during the Hongshan Culture period that has been found so far, said Guo Dasun, an archaeologist in charge of the excavation.

Seven tombs and one altar were also found on the top of the pyramid. Archaeologists also discovered a number of pottery pieces with the asterisk character inscribed on the inner wall. The asterisk character is believed to be related to the understanding of ancient people on astrology.

Among the culture relics excavated from one of the seven tombs are a bone flute and a stone ring and a full- sized stone statue of Goddess unearthed from another tomb.

What astonished the archeologists is a one palm-sized stone genital found on the inner wall of a tomb with a small stone statue of Goddess below.

Guo Dasun said that most of these relics are found for the first time and will shed light on studying the origin of Chinese civilization.

The Burma Tibetian Pyramid

The Burma Tibetian Pyramid is called 'The Pyramid of Gathering'.

It is a bright white pyramid that is well preserved in the Buhtan Province.

The limestone is still preserved beyond imagination. It supposedly glows under light.

This pyramid was spotted by U.S. pilots in China in WWll flying over the hump in Burma.

It is mentioned much by an Irish author Mona Rolf.

It same size as the Khufu Pyramid in Egypt.

These images were taken by Hartwig Hausdorf, a researcher in Germany.

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Pyramids in Australia

On the outskirts of Gympie, off Tin Can Bay Road the 'stepped pyramid' of Gympie exists. Gympie is situated on the Mary River 160km north of Brisbane Queensland Australia.

Although constructed of huge granite blocks stands about 100 feet tall. A small stone idol unearthed near the Gympie Pyramid is also believed to represent the Egyptian God "Thoth" in ape form clutching the Tau or the Cross of Life. This statuette is badly weathered with age. Thoth was the god of writing & wisdom, depicted as an ape by the Egyptians untill about 1000 BC when he became an Ibis-headed human bodied diety who recorded the judgement of the souls of Amenti, the after world. Thoth's symbol was the papyrus flower.

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An ancient 'Terrace Hill' at least 6000 years old has been found on the outskirts of Gympie off Tin Can Bay Road. The Pyramidal structure is 100 foot high and consists of a series of terraces up to 4 feet tall and eight feet across constructed of small and larger lumps of stone. It was recorded by the first white man into the area in the 1850's.

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Another crudely built pyramid structure at least twice the height and dimensions of the Gympie example has been found near the NSW Central Coast by Rex Gilroy.

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Another crudely built pyramid structure at least twice the height and dimensions of the Gympie example has been found near the NSW Central Coast by Rex Gilroy.

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In NE New Guinea, 5 pyramidal structures identical to the Gympie Structure have been found.

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Larry Cooper of Hervey Bay discovered a pyramid on Magnetic Island. He also claims a Sphinx is nearby.

- Awareness Quest

ABC News - 2001 - Egyptian mummy unwrapped in Australia

[FormerLurker]

Ever hear of Shambhala?

There is definitely much of history that we don't know. Homo sapiens have been around for what, around 500,000 years? Recorded history only goes back as far as 6,000 years or so. What happened before that I wonder...

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Shambhala

Is there really a hidden galaxy of minds living in seclusion in an inaccessible part of Asia, or is it merely a myth? Shambhala, the "Hidden Kingdom," is thought of in Tibet as a community where perfect and semiperfect beings live and are guiding the evolution of humankind. Shambhala is considered to be the source of the Kalacakra, which is the highest and most esoteric branch of Tibetan mysticism. The Buddha preached the teachings of the Kalacakra to an assembly of holy men in southern India. Afterwards, the teachings remained hidden for 1,000 years until an Indian yogi-scholar went in search of Shambhala and was initiated into the teachings by a holy man he met along the way. The Kalacakra then remained in India until it made its way to Tibet in 1026. Since then the concept of Shambhala has been widely known in Tibet, and Tibetans have been studying the Kalacakra for the least 900 years, learning its science, practicing its meditation, and using its system of astrology to guide their lives. As one Tibetan lama put it, how could Shambhala be the source of something which has affected so many areas of Tibetan life for so long and yet not exist?

Tibetan religious texts describe the physical makeup of the hidden land in detail. It is thought to look like and eight-petaled lotus blossom because it is made up of eight regions, each surrounded by a ring of mountains. In the center of the innermost ring lies Kalapa, the capital, and the king’s palace, which is composed of gold, diamonds, coral, and precious gems. The capital is surrounded by mountains made of ice, which shine with a crystalline light. The technology of Shambhala is supposed to be highly advanced; the palace contains special skylights made of lenses which serve as high-powered telescopes to study extraterrestrial life, and for hundreds of years Shambhala’s inhabitants have been using aircraft and cars that shuttle through a network of underground tunnels. On the way to enlightenment, Shambhalans acquire such powers a clairvoyance, the ability to move at great speeds, and the ability to materialize and disappear at will.

The prophecy of Shambhala states that each of its kings will rule for 100 years. There will be 32 in all, and as their reigns pass, conditions in the outside world will deteriorate. Men will become more warlike and pursue power for its own sake, and an ideology of materialism will spread over the earth. When the "barbarians" who follow this ideology are united under an evil king and think there is nothing left to conquer, the mists will lift to reveal the icy mountains of Shambhala. The barbarians will attack Shambhala with a huge army equipped with terrible weapons. Then the 32nd king of Shambhala, Rudra Cakrin, will lead a mighty host against the invaders. In a last great battle, the evil king and his followers will be destroyed.

By definition Shambhala is hidden. It is thought to exist somewhere between the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas, but it is protected by a psychic barrier so that no one can find the kingdom who is not meant to. Tibetan lamas spend a great deal of their lives in spiritual development before attempting the journey to Shambhala. Those who try to get there who are not wanted are swallowed by crevasses or caught in avalanches. People and animals tremble at its borders as if bombarded by invisible rays. There are guidebooks to Shambhala, but they describe the route in terms so vague that only those already initiated into the teachings of the Kalacakra can understand them.

Strange sightings in the area where Shambhala is thought to be seem to provide evidence of its existence. Tibetans believe that the land is guarded by beings with superhuman powers. In the early 1900s an article in an Indian newspaper, the Statesman, told of a British major who, camping in the Himalayas, saw a very tall, lightly clad man with long hair. Apparently, noticing that he was being watched, the man leaped down the vertical slope and disappeared. To the major’s astonishment, the Tibetans with whom he was camping showed no surprise at his story; they calmly explained that he had seen one of the snowmen who guard the sacred land.

A more detailed account of these "snowmen" guardians was given by Alexandra David-Neel, an explorer who spent 14 years in Tibet. While traveling through the Himalayas she saw a man moving with extraordinary speed and described him as follows: "I could clearly see his perfectly calm impassive face and wide-open eyes with their gaze fixed on some invisible distant object situated somewhere high up in space. The man did not run. He seemed to life himself from the ground, proceeding by leaps. It looked as if he had been endowed with the elasticity of a ball, and rebounded each time his feet touched the ground. His steps had the regularity of a pendulum."

While people (especially Tibetan lamas) have been searching for Shambhala for centuries, those who seek the kingdom often never return, either because they have found the hidden country and have remained there or because they have been destroyed in the attempt. Tibetan texts containing what appear to be historical facts about Shambhala, such as the names and dates of its kings and records of corresponding events occurring in the outside world, give Tibetans additional reason for believing that the kingdom exists. Recent events that seem to correspond to the predictions of the mythic kingdom add strength to their belief. The disintegration of Buddhism in Tibet and the growth of materialism throughout the world, coupled with the wars and turmoil of the 20th century, all fit in with the prophecy of Shambhala.

[From: The People's Almanac #3 by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace.]

[Siobhan]

If Shambhala does not exist, then it is the most important fictional city in the history of the world because it continues to shape and inform a living major religion.

[cosmikfactory]

I´ve been looking for up-to-date info about this... what ever happened to the nine scientists who were going to the site?
That was some 6 months ago! and still no news.