The mystery metal pillar which showed up in Utah last week – much to the delight of global media – has apparently “disappeared”, or, as the local authorities described it, been removed “by an unknown party.”
South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Mystery metal pillar found in US desert disappears” – below is their description.
A mysterious metal monolith spotted by local officials in a desert in the western US state of Utah on November 18, 2020, has apparently disappeared.
The Bureau of Land Management in Utah on November 28, said that it had received “credible reports” that the object had been removed “by an unknown party” the previous day.
The metal object has sparked a national guessing game over how it got there. Some have noted its resemblance to the avant-garde work of John McCracken, a US artist who died in 2011.
His representative has said it may have been a fellow artist paying homage to his work.
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Interestingly, a similar object has also showed up in Romania… perhaps we’re on the cusp of a mystery metal object epidemic? What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments section, below. Please note comments are moderated before publication.
About This Source - South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper founded in 1903. It is Hong Kong’s newspaper of record, owned by Alibaba Group.
China is the third largest country in the world by area and the largest country in the world by population. Properly known as the People’s Republic of China, the political territory of the country includes Tibet and Hong Kong. The capital is Beijing.
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.
Romania is a southeastern European country known for the forested region of Transylvania, ringed by the Carpathian Mountains. Its preserved medieval towns include Sighişoara, and there are many fortified churches and castles, notably clifftop Bran Castle, long associated with the Dracula legend. Bucharest, the country’s capital, is the site of the gigantic, Communist-era Palatul Parlamentului government building.
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.
