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The mysterious shiny metallic monolith found in Red Rock Country, Utah, has disappeared. They had found it more than a week ago and began various online and offline investigations into who, or what, was responsible for leaving it there.
On Saturday, the federal office of the Bureau of Land Management in Utah announced that the monolith had been removed by an unknown person. The aliens may have removed it just to see humans go crazy looking for it. Just kidding. I believe.
In a note posted on Facebook, the agency said it had received reliable reports that a person or group removed the structure on the night of November 27. The federal agency said it did not remove the monolith and considered it private property. In addition, he added that he would not investigate those who fled by taking the structure for not investigating crimes involving private property. This is the job of the local sheriff, the agency said.
According to New York Times, the Utah Department of Public Safety, which found the monolith on November 18, said what we’re all probably thinking: “SUMIU!” in reaction to the Instagram post with the news.
“It appeared out of nowhere and disappeared out of nowhere,” the department said, according to the Times. “I can only speculate” that the aliens took him back, added the organ, using the alien emoji.
Photo: Utah Department of Public Safety
This and other posts related to the monolith appear to have been removed from the department’s Instagram. Perhaps state officials didn’t like the reference to aliens. Given the use of “I” in the post, I imagine it is also possible that the department’s social media manager accidentally posts to the account. This is also a mystery.
Ever since the Utah Department of Public Safety announced its discovery, which occurred while searching for wild sheep by helicopter, the monolith has captivated the internet. The structure, which has three sides and measures between 3 and 3.6 meters, was planted firmly in the ground at the bottom of a red rock cove.
The department declined to provide the exact location of the monolith because it claimed that the structure was in a very remote area and that people who tried to visit it could be trapped and in need of rescue.
That decision, of course, was like an open invitation to amateur Internet detectives.
In just a few days, some people traced the flight paths of the Utah Department of Public Safety helicopters to gather more clues about the location of the monolith.
Others used Google Earth to find the structure, restricting its location to the south of Dead Horse Point State Park and relatively close to Canyonlands National Park.
There were some adventurers who went to the place and managed to find it, posting their experience on Instagram. As we all know, if you’re not on Instagram, it didn’t happen.
To find out when the monolith was placed in the rural area, detectives carefully studied data from historical Google Earth images, eventually discovering that the structure had appeared in the area between August 2015 and October 2016.
Now for the other question: who exactly put it there?
According to the Times, some art sources speculated that it was the work of minimalist artist and science fiction fan John McCracken, who died in 2011.
John McCracken’s son Patrick McCracken told the newspaper that he is intrigued by the monolith, but that it could be his father’s work. Patrick McCracken cites a conversation in which he says his father said he wanted to leave his works of art in remote places to be discovered later.
Patrick McCracken doesn’t think his father was joking.
“It was inspired by the idea of extraterrestrial visitors leaving objects that looked like their work, or that their work looked like,” McCracken said. “This discovery of a monolithic piece is very much in line with his artistic vision.”
However, there is no consensus. Some people at the David Zwirner Gallery, which exhibits McCracken’s work, say that the work is definitely his, although there are differences even within the gallery. But his artist friends, including James Hayward and Ed Ruscha, say he’s not a John McCracken.
Others, like Gizmodo, point to the history of the area in Hollywood movies and series and claim that someone working on a production probably put it there as a joke.
Dead Horse Point State Park was used as a filming location for Westworld (2016), John carter (2012), 127 hours (2010), Mission Impossible 2 (2000), Air conditioner (1997), Thelma and Louise (1991) e Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Canyonlands National Park, in turn, was used to film Baraka (1992) e Koyaanisqatsi (1982), along with many old western classics.
Considering the work done by Internet detectives and the fact that Westworld Having been filmed at Dead Horse Point State Park in 2016, another plausible theory is that someone on the series probably got bored and decided to get creative with the extra metal out there.
Unfortunately, the origins of the monolith and its demise will remain a mystery for now. If the thing was left there by extraterrestrial visitors, thanks for distracting us from the apocalyptic situation we are all in. Please don’t notice the mess.
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