The Telegraph published this video item, entitled “Mysterious monolith discovered in Utah desert” – below is their description.
Public Safety Officers in Utah were left perplexed after discovering a mysterious monolith in a remote part of the Red Rock Country desert. The crew was tasked with a count of big horn sheep in a portion of southeastern Utah when they came across the strange object. There was no immediate reason for the monolith to be there or any explanation for who put it there. Constructing structures in that land is illegal without previous authorisation.
Pilot Bret Hutchings told local news channel KSL TV: “That’s been about the strangest thing that I’ve come across out there in all my years of flying.” Mr Hutchings said his best guess was that it had been put there by a “new wave artist” or a fan of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie, a metal monolith is discovered in the desert by apes.
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A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive stone or rock, such as some mountains, or a single large piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument or building.
It is also the term used to describe the upright triangular metal columns which were sighted in the Utah desert and Romania.
The territory of modern Utah has been inhabited by various indigenous groups for thousands of years, including the ancient Puebloans, the Navajo, and the Ute. The Spanish were the first Europeans to arrive in the mid-16th century, though the region’s difficult geography and climate made it a peripheral part of New Spain and later Mexico.
Disputes between the dominant Mormon community and the federal government delayed Utah’s admission as a state; only after the outlawing of polygamy was it admitted as the 45th, in 1896.
A little more than half of all Utahns are Mormons, the vast majority of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which has its world headquarters in Salt Lake City. Utah is the only state where most of the population belongs to a single church. The LDS Church greatly influences Utahn culture, politics, and daily life, though since the 1990s the state has become more religiously diverse as well as secular.
The state has a highly diversified economy, with major sectors including transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, and mining and a major tourist destination for outdoor recreation.
A 2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the “best state to live in the future” based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, and health-related outlook metrics.