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At first it was a metal monolith in a desert in the United States. These stelae now appear in many places around the world, including Germany. Are they just copycats, or what’s behind it?
The mystery of the mysterious metallic monoliths is expanding: after the discovery, and subsequent disappearance, of a stela in the US state of Utah, several similar objects have appeared in various parts of the world, including in Germany in the Hessian Taunus community of Sulzbach. There were also reports of new monoliths on Tuesday from the Isle of Wight from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and the United States.
The stela in Sulzbach was on the edge of a field near a large shopping center, as photos show. On Tuesday it was unclear who placed the 10-foot-tall column there, for what reason, and if there was a connection to the other stelae. “It was discovered by walkers on Saturday, we cannot explain the origin,” said a community spokesperson.
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The farmer in the field in Main-Taunus-Kreis had claimed he had nothing to do with it. Since the discovery was made, the otherwise less frequented dirt road has been much more crowded than usual, but the monolith is not supposed to stay there for long. “We will examine it for a maximum of three more days. If it is not gone by then, we will have it undone,” the community spokesperson said. According to your impression, it is not a high quality material.
Residents of the Isle of Wight discovered the slim, mirrored structure by chance while strolling along the beach on the west side of the island, British media reported. Britain’s Alexia Fishwick told the PA news agency that acquaintances took photos of the monolith “really quite magical” for a Photoshop collage. “I’m not sure if they are aliens, a Coldplay PR stunt or a local mirror retailer looking to boost business, but it has drawn us all to the beach,” wrote islander DJ Rob da Bank on Twitter.
Joke or aliens?
A metal pillar also appeared in the north of the Netherlands. Walkers discovered them on Sunday morning in the De Kiekenberg nature reserve near Oudehorne in the northern province of Friesland. That same night he disappeared again. Who put the object there and then picked it up again is a mystery to residents and authorities. Even the Frisians, who consider themselves very sober, did not rule out the possibility that the monolith could be a “sign of aliens”, as viewers told the “Leeuwarder Courant”.
Netherlands, Oudehorne – A monolith is located in the De Kiekenberg nature reserve in the north of the country. (Source: dpa)
In the small Spanish town of Ayllón, about 90 kilometers northwest of Madrid, residents also found one of the metal pillars. Mayor María Jesús Sanz is suspicious of a neighbor’s joke behind the discovery, according to the newspaper “El Periódico”. The sheet metal structure erected in the ruins of a church is said to be very poor and has already been blown down several times by the wind. A message allegedly from the community was falsified that “hundreds of onlookers” had already arrived and that it was better to stay away from the column because of its “mysterious origin”. So far, only five neighbors have passed and they have laughed.
Big guesses
According to media reports, a metal pillar was also seen in a potato field in Dendermonde, Belgium, in East Flanders. According to Belgian broadcaster VRT, the farmer who owns the field was called anonymously on Monday night and asked if someone could put something in his field. This was supposed to be a joke, the caller had said. The farmer was pleasantly surprised, although initially he did not understand why the column was so striking.
Similar structures had already appeared in the United States and Romania in recent days, and some of them disappeared only a few days later. That started a lot of speculation on social media. Observers suspected artist installations or an homage to the sci-fi film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” in which similar objects play a role.
The stele in Romania on the Batca Doamnei hill near Piatra Neamt in the northeast of the country was engraved with circular signs. Then the object disappeared on the night of December 1, a night considered magical in Romanian popular beliefs.
“If aliens came to earth …”
An artist collective called “The Most Famous Artist” wants to be responsible for the original monolith in Utah and the one in California, while the others could be knockoff pieces. However, the origin of a stele in Pittsburgh has been clarified: operators of a candy store said they had installed it in front of their store to advertise the support of small stores in the corona pandemic.
A local designer also confessed to the sculpture on the Isle of Wight shortly after its appearance, overwhelmed by the international response. “If the aliens came to earth, they would safely arrive at the safest place: this is the Isle of Wight with the lowest level of corona warning,” the 29-year-old told the BBC.
