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A mysterious monolith discovered in a remote part of the US has been removed, equally mysteriously.
The 10-12 feet (3-3.6 meters) the metal frame was found in utah last week, planted in the ground and hidden in a red rock cove, sparking speculation about how it got there.
But on Sunday the Utah Bureau of Land Management said the structure had been removed.
The metal monolith found in Utah. Photo: Utah Department of Public Safety
On Facebook, the office said: “We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, known as the ‘monolith,’ has been removed from the public lands of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) by an unknown party.
“The BLM did not remove the structure, which is considered private property.
“We do not investigate crimes that involve private property, which are handled by the local sheriff’s office.
“The structure has received international and national attention and we receive reports that a person or group removed it on the night of November 27.”
The monolith had originally been discovered by state wildlife officials who were helping to count the bighorn sheep from a Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) helicopter.
“That was the strangest thing I have come across in all my years of flying,” pilot Bret Hutchings told local news channel KSL TV.
The mystery of the metal monolith received worldwide attention. Photo: Utah Department of Public Safety
“We were joking that if one of us suddenly disappears, the rest of us will run away,” he said.
“We were, like, thinking this is something NASA put in there or something. Are they bouncing satellites or something?”
He said it appeared to have been man-made, perhaps by “some new wave artist” or a “big fan” of the 2001 science fiction movie: A Space Odyssey, referencing a scene from the movie.
In Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 classic, apes discover a metal monolith in the desert.
The structure was compared to a view in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The DPS had posted images and footage of the discovery on its website, and a person recording one of the videos could be heard saying, “Intrepid explorers go down to explore the alien life form.”
After the DPS shared images of the structure on its social media channels, followers came up with their own theories.
One suggested it was a “space portal”, another suggested that the object was “probably left behind from a movie shoot.”
Others joked “this is where the charger plugs in” and “I was wondering where the hell I left that.”
