Dropa (also Dropas, Drok-pa or Dzopa, Chinese: 杜立巴 ) is the name given to an allege race of dwarf-like extraterrestrials claimed to have landed near the China-Tibet border approximately twelve thousand years ago by Erich von Däniken in his book Gods From Outer Space. There is no genuine evidence that any such beings existed or any such landings occurred, and many claims made by Däniken have been specifically disproved.