In true pop-up art fashion, a nearly 7-foot-tall monolith made of gingerbread mysteriously appeared on a San Francisco hilltop on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day. The three-sided tower, held together by icing and decorated with a few gumdrops, delighted the city on Friday when word spread about its […]
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OpinionThe opinions expressed here are solely those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Sierra Club. We still don’t know where it came from. Not precisely, anyway. Suffice it to say that the Utah monolith that made headlines this late autumn was not a […]
It was there… but now it’s gone. Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau Two men have taken credit for removing the strange monolith that’s captured the internet’s attention since being spotted in the Utah desert last week. As mysteriously as it showed up, the strange monolith disappeared, and Sylvan Christensen and Andy Lewis […]
It was there… but now it’s gone. Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau Last week the internet went crazy when a strange 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque metal monolith was spotted in the Utah desert. Then, as mysteriously as it showed up, the strange metal object went missing. The state’s Bureau […]
The monolith (which is not really a monolith). Zak Podmore/The Salt Lake Tribune If you knew exactly where to look, you could find it on Google Earth going back as far as 2016: an L-shaped aberration in the Utah redrock, formed by a strange, right-angled object and its shadow. But […]
Posted: Nov 29, 2020 / 01:55 PM CST / Updated: Nov 29, 2020 / 02:27 PM CST This Nov. 18, 2020 photo provided by the Utah Department of Public Safety shows a metal monolith installed in the ground in a remote area of red rock in Utah. The smooth, tall […]
An image provided by the Utah Department of Public Safety, a monolith discovered by wildlife officials in southeastern Utah, Nov. 18, 2020. (Utah Department of Public Safety via The New York Times) At first it sounded like a plot twist from a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. A […]