Unexplained Monolith Discovered in Rural Utah's Red Rock Country

[Lochloosa]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/unexplained-monolith-discovered-in-rural-utah-s-red-rock-country/ar-BB1biYEn?ocid=msedgdhp

Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety discovered a shiny metallic monolith in rural Utah’s Red Rock Country on November 18 while surveying big horn sheep by helicopter. The monolith has drawn comparisons to the black monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the helicopter crew said there’s “no obvious indication” of who may have placed the object there.

The Utah agency published photos and videos to its website, showing the team’s investigation of the strange looking object. The monolith appears to have three sides and measures roughly 10-12 feet high, according to the people who found it. The crew did note that it’s firmly planted into the ground and didn’t appear to have been dropped from above. It would seem someone really wanted that thing to stay anchored into the rock.

“One of the biologists is the one who spotted it and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it,” helicopter pilot Bret Hutchings told local news station KSL-TV. “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!’”

[lapucelle]

1. I read about it today on The Cut.

Last week, wildlife-resource officers were flying over the deserts of southern Utah, tallying all the bighorn sheep that roamed below them, when they spotted something jarring: Tucked among the glowing red rocks was a towering metal structure, jutting somewhere between 10 and 12 feet into the air. “We just happened to fly directly over the top of it,” Bret Hutchings, the helicopter pilot, told a local outlet. In all his career, Hutchings said, the monolith is “about the strangest thing that I’ve come across.”

In the days since, the helicopter crew has weighed a number of predictable explanations for the miraculous phenomenon: At first, they wondered if the structure belonged to NASA and had fallen from space; after concluding that it appears to be firmly situated in the ground, they decided it must’ve been installed, perhaps by a “new wave artist” or a 2001: A Space Odyssey super-fan. But they haven’t seriously considered, at least publicly, what we are probably all thinking...

https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/mysterious-metal-structure-discovered-in-utah.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Cut%20-%20November%2024%2C%202020&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20The%20Cut%20%281%20Year%29

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[yellowcanine]

2. Tucker Carlson's UFO?

[ananda]

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey

goosebumps

[DBoon]

7. this thread needs music

[sdfernando]

4. Utah: Maybe Joseph Smith placed it there

and underneath are the golden plates????

[FreeState]

12. Haha

Utahs own Hill Camorah n/t

[obamanut2012]

5. It's Q

[royable]

6. I suspect it's an art installation, and if not that, it was placed there by a wealthy prankster.

One could bring in an archaeologist and a geologist to carefully excavate the sand layers around the base. I'm sure they could reveal disturbance of the wash floor's bedding and perhaps even determine a time range for when the pillar was installed, based on sand bedding from stream flows at times that there was water in the wash. It hasn't rained there much recently.

I could well imagine some avant-garde experiential artist placing the pillar there, saying that the emotions brought up by people encountering it are part of the art experience.

In any case, someone went to quite a lot of work.

[Saboburns]

8. Epic level trolling

As many chuckleheads who'll tell you about faked moon landings, 5G corona virus, and tell you that Donald Trump is the greatest POTUS in history and mean it.

Whoever put that there is going to get decades of troll outta of it.

[Initech]

9. Was it a species of really intelligent apes???

[lindysalsagal]

10. Don't touch it!!!

You'll land in 18th century scotland, being chased by redcoats and rescued by clansmen. (But they're really nice.)

[Maeve]

11. And handsome!

Well, at least the redhead.....

[lindysalsagal]

16. Aye, Lassie. Dinna fash yerself.

Only some can travel through the stones!

[Nevilledog]

13. ...

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[Withywindle]

14. LEAVE IT ALONE!!!

It's just that kind of year!

[PSPS]

15. Who's surprised?