Utah Monolith Mystery: Wildlife Officers Discover 12-Foot Desert


Utah desert adjacent to confront a strange kind of government workers.

A crew with the state’s Wildlife Resources Department was aboard the Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter when they spotted a mysterious monolith coming out of the dirt last week.

About 10 to 12 feet tall, the shiny metal object was firmly planted on the ground, indicating that it was not just dropped from above.

Officials suggest it may have been created by an artist or a huge fan of 2001: Space Odyssey – the structure by Arthur C. His story resembles those machines.

The unlabeled object object is located inside the red stone cove, but, frightened amateurs may risk themselves to get a closer look, with workers blocking details about its exact location.

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Workers with the Utah Wildlife Resources Department discovered a shiny metal monolith in the desert.  The object is between 10 and 12 feet tall and is firmly planted in the ground.

Workers with the Utah Wildlife Resources Department discovered a shiny metal monolith in the desert. Object objects are between 10 and 12 feet and are firmly planted in the ground.

The team was in a remote area to count the sheep when they found an unfamiliar spot object.

Pilot Brett Hutchings told KSL-TV, “One of the biologists who spotted it and we just flew straight to the top of it.” ‘It was like,‘ Oh, oh, huh, turn, turn! ‘And I was like‘ what ’. And it’s like, ‘This thing is back there – we have to go see it!’

After the helicopter turned back and landed, the crew went into the investigation cob.

‘We were wondering, is this NASA stuck there or something? Are the satellites bouncing off of it? Hutchings said.

Officials suggest it may have been created by an artist or a huge fan of 2001: Space Odyssey - the structure resembles machines found in Arthur C.  Clark's story (pictured)

Officials suggest it may have been created by an artist or a huge fan of 2001: Space Odyssey – the structure resembles machines found in Arthur C. Clark’s story (pictured)

The team was in a remote area to count the sheep when they spotted an unfamiliar spot object.

The team was in a remote area to count the sheep when they spotted an unfamiliar spot object.

'We were wondering, is NASA stuck there or something?  Are the satellites bouncing off of it?  'The Department of Public Safety pilot Brett Hutchings said

‘We were wondering, is this NASA stuck there or something? Are the satellites bouncing off of it? ‘The Department of Public Safety pilot Brett Hutchings said

State activists are on the monolith to give an insight into its size.  A biologist with a wildlife resource office fee found the object from the sky, asking the crew to land and investigate.

State activists are on the monolith to give an insight into its size. A biologist with the Wildlife Resources Office found an object in the sky and asked the crew to land and investigate.

‘We were joking around that if one of us suddenly disappeared, the rest of us would run for it.’

Putting all the jokes aside, Hutchings believes the structure is probably some kind of artwork.

‘I guess it’s a new wave artist or something or, you know, someone was bigger [2001: A Space Odyssey] Fan, ‘he said.

Public safety pilot Brett Hutchings told KSL-TV that the

Public safety pilot Brett Hutchings told KSL-TV that the “object” without this mark was the one I had been there for all the years of my flight.

The monolith is located inside a red stone cove, but workers have blocked details about its exact location to prevent them from endangering themselves trying to get a closer look.

The monolith is located inside a red stone cove, but workers have blocked details about its exact location to prevent them from endangering themselves trying to get a closer look.

Utah has a history of ‘land art’, ‘unusual installations’ that stood away from population centers in the 1960s and’ 70s.

In 1970, artist Robert Smithson’s 1,500-foot-long coil, the most famous, spiral jetty, was made of mud, salt crystals and basalt.

Located on the north-east shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rosel Point, the jetty is visible and disappears depending on the water level.

Utah has a history of ‘land art’ unusual installations away from population centers.  The spiral jetty of artist Robert Smithson, located on the north-east shore of Great Salt Lake, is made of mud, salt and basalt stock.

Utah has a history of ‘land art’ unusual installations away from population centers. The spiral jetty of artist Robert Smithson, located on the north-east shore of Great Salt Lake, is made of mud, salt and basalt stock.

So far, no one has moved in the direction of accepting responsibility for the monolith.

That’s why Chings said, ‘It’s been about my weird thing that I’ve come out on all my flying years.’

Workers took videos and photos of object objects, but left in place.

So far, it has not disturbed the Byrne sheep living in southern Utah.

Their population once dwindled to less than a thousand in the 1970s, but conservation efforts have made a major comeback in recent decades.

The crew was in a remote area to count the number of stray sheep that live in southern Utah.

The crew was in a remote area to count the number of stray sheep that live in southern Utah

Sheep are less wary of people in early December, which is their mating season.

“They’re focusing on mating and breeding, so they’ll let vehicles get closer to them than usual,” Brent Stetler of the Utah division of Wildlife Resources told My National Parks Trip Media.

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