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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUtah monolith: Helicopter crew discovers mysterious metal monolith deep in the desert
What started as routine wildlife assistance took an extraterrestrial turn for Utah's Department of Public Safety after officers stumbled upon a mysterious monolith in the middle of rural Utah.
Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety's Aero Bureau were flying by helicopter last Wednesday, helping the Division of Wildlife Resources count bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, when they spotted something that seemed right out of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"One of the biologists ... spotted it, and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it," pilot Bret Hutchings told CNN affiliate KSL. "He was like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!' And I was like, 'What.' And he's like, 'There's this thing back there -- we've got to go look at it!'"
And there it was -- in the middle of the red rock was a shiny, silver metal monolith sticking out of the ground. Hutchings guessed it was "between 10 and 12 feet high." It didn't look like it was randomly dropped to the ground, he told KSL, but rather it looked like it had been planted.
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Did they find any ape skeletons with their skulls bashed in?
Probably someone's idea of a joke.
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Utah monolith: Helicopter crew discovers mysterious metal monolith deep in the desert (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Nov 2020
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FirstLight
(13,357 posts)1. ....considering how 2020 has been...
Let's just NOT touch it, ok?
Wounded Bear
(58,618 posts)2. OK. Who had "Alien Visitation" on their 2020 Bingo card?
bluestarone
(16,894 posts)3. WEird for sure
What kind of metal i wonder?
MineralMan
(146,281 posts)4. Looks like brush-finished stainless steel.
Someone put that there as a prank or an art project. Soon, we'll find out who that was, no doubt.
bluestarone
(16,894 posts)6. Yep looks like stainless
roamer65
(36,745 posts)5. I'm not saying it's aliens...
...but it could be...
edbermac
(15,935 posts)7. "Its origin and purpose still a total mystery"