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While workers from the Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Sign up today to
Bureau were conducting a helicopter count of bighorn sheep in get weekly
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remote Red Rock County, Utah, earlier this week they discovered a
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large metal monolith of unknown origin.
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People immediately noted the similarities between this object and
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the mysterious monolith in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey,
planted by an unknown alien species in order to shift human
evolution forward a notch.
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Theories of what it is and where it comes from abound, from the

probable but disappointing – it's an impressive but obscure art
installation, given how remote it is – to the not at all likely idea
that it's actually a monolith sent by aliens who are clearly massive
Stanley Kubrick fans. 

There are always people who will go that little bit further to find
out which. A group of Redditors set up a subreddit
r/FindTheMonolith in order to do just that, and then go to the
monolith and sit on it.

Found it from r/FindTheMonolith

In their attempt to have a bit of a squat on a mysterious obelisk in
the desert, Redditors have managed to pick up a fair amount of
information on it, not just how it feels on the buttcheeks. The first
task was to locate the coordinates on Google Maps. This was
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bighorn sheep. from r/FindTheMonolith
You can even see it and it's shadow on google maps satellite view.
How long has this thing been there?? from r/FindTheMonolith

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Now armed with the co-ordinates, Redditors and other Internet
sleuths began looking back through Google Maps to see when it
first appeared, eventually discovering that the big hunk of metal
was installed sometime after August 2015 and before October
2016.

The #Utah #Monolith has apparently been out there since at least
October 2016, but was not there in August of 2015.
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Somewhat pleasingly for 2001: A Space Odyssey fans, this isn't too
long before a group of monkeys entered the Stone Age.

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When people started visiting the monolith, they took a closer look
at how it was made, as well as taking awesome photographs.

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"It is made of 1/8th sheet steel that is riveted on the seams,"

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is epoxy along the base."
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We don't want to be a downer, but we doubt aliens would get
down here and leave a monolith that could easily be made by
humans from the days we began riveting steel. It is likely either an
art installation or a fitting tribute from a Kubrick fan.

As for who put it there, one Twitter user believes they have solved
the mystery, with some fairly compelling evidence to back it up.

They shared a screenshot of the Instagram page of photographer

Eliot Lee Hazel. The "builder" of the monoliths tagged in the
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"But to what I have found, it’s simply just an art piece that was
forgotten in the desert after the photoshoot happened," they
concluded.

"Or I’m wrong and it’s aliens. I’ll let you be the judge."

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