Unexplained Monolith Discovered in Rural Utah's Red Rock Country

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1. I read about it today on The Cut.

Last week, wildlife-resource officers were flying over the deserts of southern Utah, tallying all the bighorn sheep that roamed below them, when they spotted something jarring: Tucked among the glowing red rocks was a towering metal structure, jutting somewhere between 10 and 12 feet into the air. “We just happened to fly directly over the top of it,” Bret Hutchings, the helicopter pilot, told a local outlet. In all his career, Hutchings said, the monolith is “about the strangest thing that I’ve come across.”

In the days since, the helicopter crew has weighed a number of predictable explanations for the miraculous phenomenon: At first, they wondered if the structure belonged to NASA and had fallen from space; after concluding that it appears to be firmly situated in the ground, they decided it must’ve been installed, perhaps by a “new wave artist” or a 2001: A Space Odyssey super-fan. But they haven’t seriously considered, at least publicly, what we are probably all thinking...

https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/mysterious-metal-structure-discovered-in-utah.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Cut%20-%20November%2024%2C%202020&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20The%20Cut%20%281%20Year%29

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