Just when you think 2020 is done (not-so-pleasantly) surprising you, another thing comes up. Now, a strange monolith has been found in the wilds of Utah. According to a report by Independent, a state employee spotted it from a helicopter.?
Turns out, the employee was counting sheep from the sky when he spotted the unusual structure.?
The monolith's size is estimated between 10 and 12 feet high. It appeared to be hidden amongst the rocks and planted into the ground. It is reportedly made of smooth, black-grey metal, which isn't like anything else seen in the nearby red rocks.?
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In an interview with Bret Hutchings, the pilot who helped discover the structure said,?¡°That¡¯s been about the strangest thing that I¡¯ve come across out there in all my years of flying."
He also said that a biologist counting bighorn sheep in the helicopter was the first one to spot the structure.?
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¡°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 ¨C we¡¯ve got to go look at it!¡¯¡± Mr Hutchings said.??
He added that the object had a similarity to the evolutionary monolith featured in a famous Stanley Kubrick film. He believes it is an art piece.?
¡°I¡¯m assuming it¡¯s some new wave artist or something or, you know, somebody that was a big 2001: A Space Odyssey fan,¡± he said.??
Mr Hutchings and the helicopter crew landed to take a better and closer look at the monolith. The structure is in the center of a small canyon cul-de-sac.
¡°We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then the rest of us make a run for it,¡± he said.?
If what Mr Hutchings said is true, the art installation is not the first time a pop culture reference has been built far away from civilisation.?
In 2019, German-Namibian artist Max Siendentopf, constructed an art installation in the middle of the Namib Desert in Namibia. It consisted of seven white pillars, an mp3 player, and seven speakers. It played the Toto song 'Africa' on repeat.?
Siendentopf had refused to give the exact location of the art work. He had said,?"It is like a treasure that only the most loyal of Toto fans can find."
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