- BEIJING, China -- 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.
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- Nine scientists will travel this month to probe the origins
of the 50-60 meter (165-198 ft) tall structure -- dubbed "the ET relics"
-- in the western province of Qinghai, China's state-run Xinhua agency
said on Wednesday.
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- The mystery pyramid 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.
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- Rusty iron scraps, pipes and unusually shaped stones
are scattered around the inhospitable and largely uninhabited area, it
said.
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- ET theory
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- A research fellow at a nearby observatory of the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, Yang Ji, told Xinhua the theory the pyramid
was created by extra terrestrials was "understandable and worth looking
into."
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- "But scientific means must be employed to prove
whether or not it is true," Yang said.
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- Xinhua has not given any details on the age of the structure,
or any other possible explanations for it.
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But a study carried out by a local smeltery
suggests the pipes are very old, Liu Shaolin, the engineer who carried
out the analysis, told Xinhua.
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- These findings have made the site more mysterious, says
Qin Jianwen, a spokesman for the Delingha government.
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- "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," Qin said.
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- This will be the first time scientists are heading out
to study the mysterious site near Delingha City in the depths of the Qaidam
Basin, according to sources with the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture.
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- Mysterious Pipes
- From English People Daily
english.peopledaily.com.cn
The widespread news of mysterious iron
pipes at the foot of Mount Baigong, located in the depths of the Qaidam
Basin, Qinghai Province of northwest China, has roused concern from related
departments.
The widespread news of mysterious iron pipes at the foot
of Mount Baigong, located in the depths of the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province,
has roused concern from related departments.
Some experts believe that these might be relics left behind
by extraterrestrial beings (ET), for the site, with its high altitude and
thin, crisp air, has long been held as an ideal place to practice astronomy.
Three caves are found at the foot of Mount Baigong. Two
of them have collapsed and are inaccessible. The middle one 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, a little like
a cave dug out by human beings, with pure sand and rock inside.
What is astonishing is inside for 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 into the earth with
only its top visible above the ground.
At the opening of the cave there are a dozen pipes at
the diameter between 10 and 40 centimeters run into the mount straightly,
showing high fixing technique.
About 80 meters away from the caves is the shimmering
Toson Lake, on whose beach 40 meters away, many iron pipes can be found
scattered on sands and rocks. They run in the east-west direction with
a diameter between 2 and 4.5 centimeters. They are of various strange shapes
and the thinnest is like a toothpick, but not blocked inside after years
of sand movement.
More strange is that there are also some pipes in the
lake, some reaching above water surface and some buried below, with similar
shapes and thickness with those on the beach. |