Pierres de Dropa
The legend: 716 granite discs discovered in 1937 in the Bayan Har mountains, bearing an inscription deciphered by a professor "Tsum Um Nui" telling of the crash of "Dropa" extraterrestrials 12,000 years ago. The reality: a documented hoax — no physical disc exists in any museum, the central figures (Chi Pu Tei, Tsum Um Nui) cannot be found in any archive, and the author of the most famous book on the subject confessed the fabrication in 1995.
- Lieu
- China (alleged) · Asie & Pacifique
- Civilisation
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- Période
- canular du XXe s. (récits des années 1960)
- Technique
- aucun objet réel : disques de pierre gravés de spirales allégués, jamais localisés ni exposés dans aucun musée
- Études
la preuve du faux est documentée. Photographie révisable de l’état des recherches, jamais un jugement.
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Aucun des 716 disques allégués n'est localisable dans un musée ou une collection publique ; aucune publication scientifique n'existe
« Tsum Um Nui » et « Chi Pu Tei » sont inconnus de toute archive académique ; leurs noms ne correspondent à aucune morphologie lexicale chinoise valide
David Gamon a avoué en 1995 (Fortean Times) avoir écrit sous pseudonyme le livre Sungods in Exile (1978) comme une fiction inspirée de von Däniken
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