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The mysterious “metal monolith” originally unknown, whose recent finding in a western united states desert sparked all kinds of speculation, He disappearedlocal officials said Saturday.
Utah’s spatial planning office said it received “credible evidence” that someone had removed the object Friday night.
“The office did not remove the structure, which is considered private property”said in a statement.
“We do not investigate crimes related to private property, which depend on the local sheriff’s office,” he added.
The triangular metal block, more than 3.5 meters high, was discovered in mid-November by local officials who were flying over the area in search of specimens of bighorn sheep.
Upon landing to investigate, crew members from the Utah Department of Public Safety found the “metal monolith installed in the ground,” but “no obvious indication” of who might have put it there.
News of the find quickly went viral on the internet, and many noted the similarity of the object to the strange alien monoliths that unleash enormous advances in human progress. famous sci-fi movie by Stanley Kubrick 2001: Space Odyssey, 1968.
Although officials refused to reveal the location of the object for fear that hordes of onlookers would approach the place, an internet race was soon launched to find its location, with the help of the surrounding geological formations. Some claimed to have located the site.
Some observers noted the resemblance of the object to the avant-garde work of John McCracken, an American artist who lived for a time in the neighboring state of New Mexico and died in 2011.
His son, Patrick McCracken, recently told the New York Times that his father told him in 2002 that he would love to “leave his works in lost environments to be discovered later.”
And earlier this week, David Zwirner, McCracken’s legal representative, said the mysterious “monolith” may be the work of the artist.
“The gallery is divided about it,” he said, admitting that he himself is “persuaded” that the work is by McCracken and has not been discovered for almost 10 years.
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