- 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 Mount Baigong 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. (read more)
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- "ET" pyramid, caves and pipes
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- 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 60
meters high.
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- 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.
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- 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 into
the earth with only its top visible above the ground. Above the cave are
a dozen pipes of various diameters which run into the mountain.
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- 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 are a
large number of rusty scraps, pipes of various diameters and strangely
shaped stones.
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- Some of the pipes run into the lake.
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- Mysterious site to be explored 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 per cent ferric oxide with a large amount of silicon
dioxide and calcium oxide. Eight per cent of the content could not be identified.
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- "The large content of silicon dioxide and calcium
oxide is a result of long interaction between iron and sandstone, which
means the 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 migrating herdsmen to the north
of the mountain."
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- 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. It is an ideal place to practice astronomy, Qin said.
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- In fact, the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese
Academy of 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.
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- "But scientific means must be employed to prove
whether t it is true," he added.
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