You’ve probably heard about the mysterious monolith discovered November 23 in the remote red rock country of Utah in fly over by the Bureau of Land Management. Five days later, it disappeared, and the BLM says they didn’t remove it.
The smooth metallic monolith is a reminder of Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey 2001, and the comparisons of course sparked speculation that it was left by aliens. The BLM called it an illegal monument, no matter who put it there, and they say they didn’t remove it. All that remained was a metal triangle and some rocks. The monolith had been placed about ten feet from a rock wall.
Because of its remote location, a BLM spokesperson suggested it could have been there for “forty or fifty years…or maybe more.” A Google search though found it in place for at least five years.
One hint of a possible origin is the fact that the TV series “Westworld” was filmed in the area. The first season came out in 2016.
The most mysterious aspect of the monolith story for us at this writing is its mysterious removal. With all the attention the monolith has received, its surprising that no one has come forward to claim the monolith or take credit for removing it. Considering the location, there’s also the question of how it was removed…and why no one has reported observing the departure of the monolith.
We would have thought that the BLM by the end of the week would’ve placed a camera nearby to observe activity in the area. Shrug it off as a bureaucracy slow to react? Or, perhaps they did install a camera, and they’re not talking about what appears on the video.
Mystery solved –
https://www.news.com.au/technology/stunt-artists-claim-responsibility-for-viral-marketing-strategy-of-disappearing-monoliths/news-story/857b0e24808d7c6a905058958ded731b
The monolith mystery seems to be “solved” as a group of stunt artists are taking responsibility and claim to sell them for $60,596 each.
Over the last 24 hours, the artists, who go by the name The Most Famous Artist, have been posting up photos and clues on their Instagram account that detail the making of the monoliths.
The group, who are based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, first posted up photos of the monoliths, one from the Utah site and the other apparently in transit on a dolly near a warehouse.
The stunt artists posted a third photo of the California monolith on their website.
When asked by their followers on Instagram “was it you?,” the account replied “if by you you mean us, yes.”
I heard something like this on FB. But in the past, there have been anomalies cropping up like these things and then someone steps in and claims they did it. Happened at one point with crop circles and from then on, douobt was sown. And yet, crop circles aren’t all man-made. I’d love to see these close up, touch them, rap my knuckles against them, figure it out for myself. So cool, though, that you feel like you’re in a Kubrick movie.
I read a couple was heading there to see it and saw a truck with a large object covered in the back and the guy jokingly said to the girl “there’s the monolith”? Of course when they arrived to the actual area it was gone.
Really? I read a third one appeared. Have to check that story.