It was during a helicopter trip over the red desert landscape of Utah, USA, that a team from the Wildlife Resources Division discovered a monolith in the middle of nowhere last Wednesday. Its origin is unknown, but there are already several theories emerging on social networks, between extraterrestrial life and the fanatics of the film “2001: Odyssey in Space”.
The strange shiny metal structure, 3 to 3.6 meters high and embedded among the reddish rocks, caught the attention of the biologist who was on board and was part of the team of public officials who walked around with the aim of accounting for the wild sheep population in the region. The pilot stepped back at his request, flew over that area again and posed the apparatus for the crew to see the monolith up close.
Incredulous about what they saw, they could not resist playing with the situation, recalled pilot Bret Hutchings, speaking to the local KSLTV television station. “It was the strangest thing my eyes found in so many years of flying,” he said.
As there is still no information regarding the origin of the mysterious object, the most unusual theories were not long in coming. For the helicopter pilot, the work will have been placed there by “some new wave artist” or a big fan of “2001: Space Odyssey”, by Stanley Kubrick, since in the film imposing monoliths, created by an alien species .
The Utah public security department released images of the metallic monolith and questioned on social media what could be behind it. The answers were not long in coming. There were those who jokingly suggested that it was a sign of the presence of extraterrestrials, but also those who considered it to be just an artistic installation.
The exact location of the monolith was not revealed by the authorities, to prevent adventurous amateurs from traveling to that region and getting lost in its mountains.
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