On November 18, 2020, the Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau was working with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to conduct a count of big horn sheep in a portion of southeastern Utah.

While on this mission, they spotted an unusual object and landed nearby to investigate further.

The crew members found a metal monolith installed in the ground in a remote area of red rock.

The crew said there was no obvious indication of who might have put the monolith there.

Just when you thought 2020 couldn't get any crazier!

I look forward to following this story.

https://dpsnews.utah.gov/dps-aero-bureau-encounters-monolith-in-red-rock-country/

Isn’t this how Transformers started?

This has to be a prank/hoax right?

22 minutes ago, sportsfan41 said:

This has to be a prank/hoax right?

That is certainly my default position but like always I am open-minded. 

19 years too late!  Been there, done that in 2001.

 

 

3 minutes ago, nkypete said:

19 years too late!  Been there, done that in 2001.

 

 

You just beat me to it. I was about to say, this news is giving me 2001: A Space Odyssey vibes.

11 hours ago, sportsfan41 said:

This has to be a prank/hoax right?

It's some people with too much time on their hands because of COVID.

The masses are showing up now, from the BBC:

It's not visible in historic satellite imagery from 2015, but appears in October 2016 when scrubland in the vicinity also appears to have been cleared.

Video from the dozens - perhaps even hundreds of people - who have already visited the location suggest a professional job. Three large sheets of what appears to be stainless steel were riveted together, with the inside left hollow. Whoever put it there used heavy-duty tools to cut into the bedrock and embed the structure.

"One person alone could not have done it so there is a group of people who have some knowledge of it somewhere," said Wendy Wischer of the University of Utah's School of Fine Art. "Most artists want some recognition for what they are doing but this seems to include a level of humour and mystery as part of the intention."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55071058

I wonder if its creators will reveal themselves or this will remain a mystery.  Any way you cut it this is really interesting. 

And poof, just like that, the Monolith has disappeared... 

13 hours ago, theguru said:

And poof, just like that, the Monolith has disappeared... 

The Decepticons must have found it. We're screwed.

Today is December 1st for most of the world.  In Utah, it is perpetually April 1st.

3 hours ago, SnottieDrippen said:

The Decepticons must have found it. We're screwed.

The question is in this context who are the Decepticons?

2 hours ago, nkypete said:

Today is December 1st for most of the world.  In Utah, it is perpetually April 1st.

I hear what you are saying and I don't like it.  

All things considered this is not the kind of thing you play games with. 

19 minutes ago, theguru said:

I hear what you are saying and I don't like it.  

All things considered this is not the kind of thing you play games with. 

With all due respect Ru, this is EXACTLY the type of thing you play games with. It literally harms nobody and is pretty funny when you think about the fact that some high school or college kid has this sitting in his garage laughing his butt off about everyone freaking out over it haha.

7 minutes ago, theguru said:

I hear what you are saying and I don't like it.  

All things considered this is not the kind of thing you play games with. 

Why not?