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THE HAGUE (AFP): A mysterious metal monolith appeared on a wasteland in the Netherlands after similar objects were found in the United States, Romania and Britain, an official said.
Hikers found the object Sunday on private land near the Kiekenberg nature reserve in the northern province of Friesland, a spokesman for the Dutch Forestry Commission said.
“We know that it was probably placed this weekend because some hikers who were walking there found it, but we do not know that it got there,” forestry commission spokesman Imke Boerma told AFP.
Rangers went to see the object Monday morning and were still looking for clues as to where it came from.
A similar-looking structure appeared briefly in the Utah desert late last month, then two others appeared in southern California and Romania days later. Another appeared on a beach on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England on Sunday.
Photos in the Dutch media showed the object in Friesland with a dull silver surface, next to a marshy pool on icy ground.
Local broadcaster Omrop Fryslan said the Dutch object was not shiny like the other monoliths, although it was similar in size and shape.
“I walked towards it, but there was nothing to see around the monolith. As if it was placed from above,” hiker Thijs de Jong, the first person to find the obelisk, told Omrop Fryslan, adding that yes “They have certainly needed two or more people “to place it.
The station said there were suspicions that the obelisk could be a trick of a “New Year’s Eve club”, a tradition in the north of the Netherlands to draw attention to a town or association.
But he quoted De Jong as saying there was no such club in the area. “I myself am thinking more of a kind of artist collective that does something like that,” he said.
The appearance of the Utah object in late November sparked rumors of extraterrestrial visitation due to a resemblance to the black monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 sci-fi film: A Space Odyssey.
An anonymous art collective has claimed credit for the Utah installation, but no one has claimed responsibility for those in Romania, the Isle of Wight and the Netherlands. – AFP
Another mysterious metal monolith is found: Holland #monolith #monolithism pic.twitter.com/qIey4odrWv
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