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A mysterious monolith that had left viewers baffled has disappeared from the spot where it was discovered in the Utah desert.
The structure was originally spotted Nov. 18 by state officials who were helping to count sheep from a helicopter, although it was unclear how it got there.
Now, equally mysteriously, he has disappeared, and officials say his dismissal has nothing to do with them and is instead due to an “unknown party.”
The Utah Bureau of Land Management said in a statement: “We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, known as the ‘monolith,’ has been removed from public lands by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) by an unknown part “.
The BLM said the structure, which it described as “private property,” had been removed by “one person or group” on the night of November 27.
He added that any criminal investigation would be handled by the local sheriff’s office.
Officials never revealed the monolith’s exact whereabouts, but internet detectives were quick to pinpoint its precise location, prompting a series of intrepid tourists to make the difficult journey to see it.
One of them, Matt Misbach, told the Palestinian Authority news agency that he arrived early on November 28 to find that he had already left.
He said: “I arrived early on Saturday morning.
“When I arrived there were two young men still in their sleeping bags camping at the site. They got there at 2 in the morning.
“The monolith was gone when they arrived.”
He said other observers told him the monolith was still there the night before.
The metal obelisk was between 10 and 12 feet tall and had been embedded in the red earth.
Helicopter pilot Bret Hutchings, who was among the group that discovered it, described it as “the strangest thing I have come across in all my years of flying.”
He told local news channel KSL TV that his best guess was that it was put there by a “new wave artist” or a fan from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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