Utah Monolith: Helicopter crew discovers mysterious metal monolith in the desert


Written by Leah Asmelesh, CNN

Utah’s rural safety department officials took a turn to the outside world for Utah’s public safety department after the start of regular wildlife assistance stumbled upon a mysterious monopoly.

Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau were flying by helicopter last Wednesday, helping the Division of Wildlife Resources count the Byron sheep in southeastern Utah, when they spotted something similar to “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

“One of the biologists … found it, and we just flew straight to the top of it,” pilot Brett Hutchings told CNN-affiliated KSL. “It was like, ‘Oh, this, this, this, this, this!’ And I was like ‘Vote.’ And it’s like, ‘This thing is back there – we have to go see it!’ ”
Pilot Brett Hutchings believes most of the budget was probably created by an artist.

Pilot Brett Hutchings believes that the object budget was probably created by an artist. Deposit: Utah Department of Public Safety

And it was there – in the middle of the red rock a shiny, silvery metal monotony was sticking out of the ground. Hutchings estimated it was “between 10 and 12 feet.” It doesn’t look like it was randomly dropped on the ground, it was KSL. Said, but it seemed to have been planted.

“We were making this kind of joke that if one of us suddenly disappeared, the rest of us would run for it,” Hutchings said.

Still, Hutchings said he thinks it was probably put there by an artist rather than an alien.

“I’m assuming it’s a new wave artist or something or, you know, someone who was a big fan (” 2001: A Space Odyssey “),” he said, referring to a scene from a 1968 film. Where a black ecmolith appears.

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The Utah DPS said in a statement released Monday that it is illegal to install structures or art on public land without authority.

The location of the monolith is not being revealed, and it is not yet clear who – or what – put the monolith there, the DPS said.

By Monday, the Bureau of Land Management will decide whether further investigation is needed.

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