The Monolith

Umbran · Nov 24, 2020

The year 2020 being what it is... I vote for not mucking with the monolith...

Unexplained Monolith Discovered in Rural Utah's Red Rock Country

Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety discovered a shiny metallic monolith in rural Utah’s Red Rock Country on November 18 while surveying big horn sheep by helicopter. The monolith has drawn comparisons to the black monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey...

gizmodo.com

UngainlyTitan · Nov 24, 2020

I guess we now need to check the Moon and the vicinity of Jupiter for corresponding ones.

R_J_K75 · Nov 24, 2020

Destros Weather Dominator?

Ryujin · Nov 24, 2020

I'm figuring old movie prop.

... but still on the lookout for huge-headed space babies.

R_J_K75 · Nov 24, 2020

Ryujin said:
I'm figuring old movie prop.

... but still on the lookout for huge-headed space babies.

Either that or anonymous art exhibit.

Dannyalcatraz · Nov 27, 2020

It’s one tine of earth’s tuning fork.

Janx · Nov 27, 2020

How come there are no close-ups of this thing? Not a single person with a camera thought to take a picture of those human-made rivets?

R_J_K75 · Nov 27, 2020

Janx said:
How come there are no close-ups of this thing? Not a single person with a camera thought to take a picture of those human-made rivets?

There are no rivets in space just as there are no bras in space. Just ask George Lucas.

Umbran · Nov 29, 2020

Janx said:
How come there are no close-ups of this thing? Not a single person with a camera thought to take a picture of those human-made rivets?

The first people on the scene were just flying by on a sheep-counting trip, and found something weird in the desert. They weren't journalists, documentary makers, or investigators of weird things in deserts. Comprehensive methodology should not be expected from them.

Dannyalcatraz · Nov 29, 2020

Apparently, the Europans came back for their stuff.

The mysterious silver monolith in the Utah desert has disappeared

A tall, silver, shining metal monolith discovered in the desert in southeastern Utah -- which prompted theories of alien placement and drew determined hikers to its secret location -- has now disappeared.

www.cnn.com