SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Deep depth in Utah’s red-stone desert Mars-like landscape is a mystery: a glowing metal monolith in the most remote parts of the state.
The simple, tall structure was found during a helicopter survey of the Bigarn sheep in southeastern Utah, officials said Monday.
A crew from the Utah Department of Public Safety and the Division of Wildlife Resources found the glaming object object in the air on Nov. 18 and landed to check it out during their break.
They found that a three-sided stainless-steel object object was as tall as two men. But they could not find any clues as to who might or may not be among the undulating red rocks on the ground.
“This thing is not from another world,” said Lt. Nick Street of the Utah Highway Patrol, who is part of the Department of Public Safety.
Still, it is clear that he planned a little to make a 10 to 12-foot (3- 4-meter) monotonous and embed it in the rock.
The exact location is so remote that officials are not disclosing it in public, worried that people may get lost or stuck trying to find it and need to be rescued.
The monolithic Stanley Kubrick appears in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Because it is on federal public land, it is illegal to keep art objects without authorization.
Bureau of Land Management officials are investigating how long it has been, who created it and whether to remove it.
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