The metal pyramid of Mount Baigong: fairy tale or mystery?
In June 2006, China's Xinhua news agency reported that a team of scientists was studying the ruins of a metal pyramid, about sixty meters high, found on the southern shore of a salt lake at the foot of Baigong Shan Mountain (2200 meters above sea level).
The metal Pyramid is located about 40 km southeast of the town of Deligha, lost in the Qaidam Depression in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Haixi, in a remote and virtually uninhabited corner of Qinghai Province.
The proximity of ponds and a complex of canals and pipes seem to reveal that the pyramid was part of a pumping system.
On the southern shore of the salt lake, the Toson, there are wrecks that people indicate as left by extraterrestrials. They appear like a 50 to 60 meters high pyramid; a large structure of metal tubes with diameters ranging from ten to forty centimeters.
In front of it there are three caves with triangular openings, two collapsed and inaccessible; a third cave, larger than the others, with the floor two meters below ground level and the vault eight meters above, with a depth of six metres.
Inside, placed on the ground, there is a 40 centimeter long pipe, cut in half, while another is buried and only one end can be seen protruding from the ground.
Outside the cave, along the lake shore, numerous rusty fragments are scattered, tubes of various diameters between two and 4.5 centimeters, strangely shaped stones.
Some tubes disappear beneath the surface of the lake. They are all reddish-brown in color like the surrounding rocks and, although thin, they do not present obstructions after having been subjected to sandy movements for years.
The fragments were analyzed by a local foundry and it emerged that they are composed of 30% iron oxide, contain a large quantity of silicon dioxide and calcium oxide, while the remaining 8% has not been identified (is probably non-existent on Earth). This increases the mystery that has been created around the "remnants of ET".
Engineer Liu Shaolin of the Xitieshan Smelting Plant, who carried out the analysis, says the levels of silicon dioxide and calcium oxide suggest the pipes remained on the mountain for a long time. The advanced state of corrosion suggests its dating to 5000 years ago.
The large quantity of silica dioxide and calcium dioxide derives from a prolonged interaction between the iron and the sandstone of the stones, consequently it can be assumed that the pipes are very ancient.
The date is certainly "strange", because the technology of metal fusion spread to human cultures, according to our knowledge, several millennia later. According to some scholars, the site may have been an extraterrestrial launch tower or at least an ancient observatory. The altitude of the place and the transparent air are ideal for practicing astronomy. In fact, seventy kilometers from there is the radio telescope of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Observatory.
Extraterrestrial or not, this is a find of iron that is considered very ancient.
The site was first detected in 1998 by a group of US scientists, on the trail of dinosaur fossils, who informed local authorities in Delingha. It remained ignored until one of the six reports, drawn up by Ye Zhou, was published in June 2002 in the "Henan Dahe Bao". Quin Jianwen, a local official, immediately informed Xinhua News Agency journalists of the discovery on June 16, 2002. It appears that the local government then promoted the site as a tourist attraction.
An expedition was planned in 2002 to further investigate. An anonymous source announced that a group of nine Chinese scientists visited and studied the place. This group consisted of 10 experts, 10 journalists and a television crew from CCTV (China Central Television).
Unfortunately, this is all we know. The news released on internet are accompanied by several photos. However, the only overall photo that shows the "pyramid" seems to be that of a mountain of natural origin, with rather folded and twisted geological layers, and not of an artefact.
In the attached photos: The pyramid and other findings at Mount Baigong.
