Baigong Pipes

The Baigong Pipes are a series of pipe-like features found on and near Mount Baigong about 40 km southeast of the city of Delingha , in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture , Qinghai Province , China.

These pipe-like features are cited by various web pages as an example of an , and have been put forward as a possible sign of extraterrestrial life having visited Earth.

The “Pyramid”

The Baigong Pipes are reported to be associated with a "pyramid" about 50 to 60 meters built on Mount Baigong. The front of the "pyramid" is reported to contain three caves. The mouths of the two smaller caves have collapsed. Only the largest cave, which is 6 meters high, can be entered

Baigong Pipes

Two Baigong Pipes have been reported from the largest cave. One of these is described as being 40 cm in diameter and preserved as a reddish-brown "half-pipe". Within the same cave, another pipe-like feature of similar diameter was also found. "Dozens" of upright pipe-like features, about 10 to 40 cm in diameter, were also found protruding from Mount Baigong above the largest cave

In 2002, expeditions to study the Baigong Pipes were reportedly planned. Anonymous reported that a group of nine Chinese scientists were to visit and study them in June 2002. A group of researchers from the Beijing UFO Research Association were making preparations to visit and study these pipe-like features. This group was to be composed of 10 "experts", 10 journalists, and film team from CCTV . from the Navajo and other Jurassic sandstones within Utah and adjacent states. Figure 3C shows a few of the many natural hematite pipes, which occur in Navajo Sandstone. Brenda Beitler notes the presence of hollow "subhorizontal planar strata-bound pipes" and "vertical pipes", which have been created by the precipitation of hematite within the Navajo Sandstone.

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