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Also interesting, Google Earth’s historical satellite pictures have shown that the monolith has been there since 2016. The monolith was in effect patiently waiting for years to be discovered at the “right time”.
Some people have already gone to the site using the coordinates yesterday and are apparently disappointed to discover that it looks more man-made than alien, as if that was the only issue.
As reader Atom commented:
What is really remarkable is the amount of attention it is getting and how it is intentionally or unintentionally pushing/triggering the ET theme into the public’s mind. I think we’ve never had anything like this ET-related in the MSM ever before. That’s quite something.
Here on Super Torch Ritual we are a bit different than most out there as we avoid focusing on the literal/surface level of anomalies and events. So while it’s nice to get these new details, they are not something that affects our multicontextual decoding, interpretations and projections. The Utah Monolith whispering…
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UPDATE – November 29
The Utah Monolith is gone! It’s not there anymore. ???????? Disappeared on the evening of November 27th.
Updated Monday, November 30: Just days after the “2001”-esque monolith appeared — and then vanished — in Utah, another similar-looking structure has appeared in Romania. According to the Daily Mail, the shiny triangular structure was discovered on Batca Doamnei Hill, in the city of Piatra Neamt, in northern Romania, facing what is known as the Holy Mountain.
Neamt Culture and Heritage official Rocsana Josanu told Euro Weekly that an investigation has begun. “We have started looking into the strange appearance of the monolith. It is on private property, but we still don’t know who the monolith’s owner is yet,” she said. “It is in a protected area on an archaeological site. Before installing something there, they needed permission from our institution, one that must then be approved by the Ministry of Culture.”
The Utah Department of Public Safety may have found proof that human evolution was meticulously guided by extraterrestrial forces from beyond the stars.
Or, at least, a pretty cool art project.
What did they find? Deep in the middle of the Utah desert, a helicopter spotted a mysterious, 12-foot monolith sticking out of the ground.
One can’t help but draw connections to the nearly identical imagery in the classic 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. And if it’s anything like the monolith in that film, there are some serious, earth-shattering implications.
A Very Mysterious Monolith
The discovery was made on November 18th, as Utah’s Department of Public Safety was conducting a routine count of bighorn sheep by helicopter.
Then they spotted it.
Pilot Bret Hutchings detailed the findings to a local NBC affiliate. “One of the biologists is the one who spotted it and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it. He was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!’ And I was like, ‘what.’ And he’s like, ‘There’s this thing back there – we’ve got to go look at it!’”
And look they did, despite the monolith's eerie similarity to the monolith in Stanley Kubrick's classic 1968 film.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, early hominids awaken to discover a monolith before them. The monolith seems to influence them, as they learn how to use bones as a weapon, and the famously abstract film implies that it was placed there by an alien lifeforce with the intention of guiding human evolution from prehistoric apes to a space-faring species.
Is this a case of life imitating art?
Out of This World Art
Naturally, a mysterious 12-foot monument in the middle of nowhere raised some big questions.
Like how it got there.
In fact, the area it was discovered in is so remote that officials aren’t even disclosing the exact location, out of fear that visitors would get lost. “It is in a very remote area and if individuals were to attempt to visit the area, there is a significant possibility they may become stranded and require rescue,” a statement read. They also said it looked planted, rather than dropped in. Meaning if it is of earthly origin, someone hauled it in through miles of unforgiving Utah desert.
Still, the individuals who found it believe it to be an art piece, an homage to 2001.
"I'm assuming it's some new wave artist or something or, you know, somebody that was a big ("2001: A Space Odyssey") fan," Hutchings said. And the Department of Public Safety even made light of the potentially outer space origin, reminding everyone that “it is illegal to install structures or art without authorization on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you’re from.”
It’s a pretty convincing argument. Artists did it! After all, the American Southwest has a unique history with avant-garde art in remote locations. Take Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, for example, located on the Northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake. Or Michael Heizer’s Double Negative deep in the Nevada desert.
Even if it is merely terrestrial in origin, as logic would suggest, it remains a reminder of the weird and wonderful world we live in. That artists would haul in a 12-foot piece of metal, install it in the ground who-knows how long ago, and spark both international news coverage and some seriously big questions, is an impressive artistic feat.
Or, perhaps, that’s exactly what the government wants us to think.
What do you think? Art installation, or something a bit more… otherworldly?
UPDATE 12/04/2020: The Utah monolith disappeared seemingly overnight a few days later, gone as quickly as it appeared. Similar monoliths have since popped up in Romania and California, deepening a mystery that has baffled public officials. So far, no one has come forward to claim credit for the trio of mysterious monoliths, terrestrial or otherwise.
UPDATE 12/08/2020: A group of California artists have claimed responsibility for the mysterious installation, calling it a piece of "guerrilla art." However, some uncertainty still remains – particularly because of the presence of remarkably similar monuments discovered elsewhere around the world.
Black monolith on the moon. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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Black monolith in orbit around Jupiter. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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NASA Photos show that the Monolith in Utah's Red Rock Desert may have visited the Red Planet just 4 years ago.
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The Mars monolith is a rectangular object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is located near the bottom of a cliff, from which it likely fell. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles away.
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Black monolith on the moon. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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Black monolith in orbit around Jupiter. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Universal Pictures
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NASA Photos show that the Monolith in Utah's Red Rock Desert may have visited the Red Planet just 4 years ago.
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The Mars monolith is a rectangular object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is located near the bottom of a cliff, from which it likely fell. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles away.
Apparently the silver Monolith discovered in Utah's Red Rock desert is part of a family of monoliths, distributed throughout our Solar System by another civilization for some unknown purpose. Either that or it's moving around through our solar system, phasing into different locations at different times.
The monolith (or monoliths), has previously been sighted by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Mars and one of its moons, Phobos.
The Mars monolith is a rectangular object discovered on the surface of Mars. It is located near the bottom of a cliff, from which it likely fell. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles away.
This of course calls to mind the 2001: A Space Odyssey, where a black monolith is found buried on the moon. Then an astronaut named Dave travels to Jupiter, only to find a black monolith in orbit for thousands of years.
The Phobos monolith was a large pillar located on the surface of Mars's moon Phobos. It measured about 279 ft across and 300 feet in height--significantly bigger than the Utah Monolith.
The Mars monolith is a bright object near Stickney crater, described as a "building sized" boulder, which casts a prominent shadow. It was discovered by Efrain Palermo, who did extensive surveys of Martian probe imagery, and later confirmed by Lan Fleming, an imaging sub-contractor at NASA Johnson Space Center.
"A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive piece of rock. Monoliths also occur naturally on Earth, but it has been suggested that the Phobos monolith may be a piece of impact ejecta," claims Wikipedia. But we know better.
The general vicinity of Phobos' monolith is a proposed landing site by Optech and the Mars Institute, for a robotic mission to Phobos known as PRIME (Phobos Reconnaissance and International Mars Exploration).
The PRIME mission would be composed of an orbiter and lander, and each would carry four instruments designed to study various aspects of Phobos' geology. At present, PRIME has not been funded and does not have a projected launch date. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has spoken about the Phobos monolith and his support for a mission to Phobos.
The object appears in Mars Global Surveyor images SPS252603 and SPS255103, dated 1998. The object may be related to another monolith located on the surface of Mars, which NASA noted as an example of a common surface feature in that region. In fact, all three monoliths may be related structures left by an unknown civilization, for us Earthlings to discover and wonder about. Or perhaps they're just rocks.
Is it aliens? Wildlife officials discover mysterious 12-foot-tall metal monolith standing in the middle of a Utah desert that resembles the machines in Space Odyssey
State workers in a helicopter noticed the shiny marker while flying overhead
About 10 to 12 feet tall, it's planted in the ground and not dropped from above
There are no identifying markings and no one has claimed responsibility
Utah has a history of 'land art' placed in the desert far from population centers
By DAN AVERY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:41 BST, 23 November 2020 | UPDATED: 18:34 BST, 24 November 2020
Government workers had a close encounter of the strange kind out in the Utah desert.
A crew with the state wildlife resources department was aboard a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter when they spotted a mysterious monolith sticking out of the dirt last week.
About 10 to 12 feet tall, the shiny metal object was firmly planted in the ground, suggesting it wasn't just dropped from above.
Officials suggest it could be have been constructed by an artist or a huge fan of 2001: Space Odyssey - the structure resembles the machines found in Arthur C. Clarke's story.
The unlabeled object is located inside a red rock cove but, fearful amateurs could endanger themselves trying to get a closer look, the workers have withheld details about its exact location.
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Worker with Utah's wildlife resources department spotted a shiny metal monolith in the desert. The object is between 10 and 12 feet tall and is firmly planted in the ground
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The team was in the remote area to count bighorn sheep when they spotted the unidentified object.
'One of the biologists is the one who spotted it and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it,' pilot Bret Hutchings told KSL-TV. 'He was like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!' And I was like, 'what.' And he's like, 'There's this thing back there – we've got to go look at it!'
After the copter circled back and landed, the crew went into the cove to investigate.
'We were thinking, Is this something NASA stuck up there or something? Are they bouncing satellites off it?' Hutchings said.
The @UtahDPS helicopter was assisting the @UtahDWR in counting bighorn sheep in remote southern Utah Wednesday when the crew encountered something entirely 'out of this world'...@KSL5TV#KSLTV#Utah
Officials suggest it could be have been constructed by an artist or a huge fan of 2001: Space Odyssey - the structure resembles the machines found in Arthur C. Clarke's story (pictured)
The team was in the remote area to count bighorn sheep when they spotted the unidentified object
'We were thinking, Is this something NASA stuck up there or something? Are they bouncing satellites off it?' said Department of Public Safety pilot Bret Hutchings
State workers climb the monolith to give a sense of its size. A biologist with the wildlife resources office spotted the object from the sky, prompting the crew to land and investigate
'We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then the rest of us make a run for it.'
All jokes aside, Hutchings believes the structure is probably some kind of artwork.
'I'm assuming it's some new wave artist or something or, you know, somebody that was a big [2001: A Space Odyssey] fan,' he said.
Department of Public Safety pilot Bret Hutchings told KSL-TV the unmarked object 'is about the strangest thing that I've come across out there in all my years of flying,'
The monolith is located inside a red rock cove but workers have withheld details about its exact location to prevent others from endangering themselves trying to get a closer look
Utah has a history of 'land art,' unusual installations that cropped up far from population centers in the 1960s and '70s.
The most famous, Spiral Jetty, a 1,500-foot-long coil by artist Robert Smithson in 1970 that's composed entirely of mud, salt crystals and basalt.
Located on the northeastern edge of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point, the jetty appears and disappears depending on water levels.
Utah has a history of 'land art,' unusual installations far from population centers. Located on the northeastern edge of the Great Salt Lake, artist Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is made of mud, salt and basalt rock
So far, no one has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the monolith, though.
'That's been about the strangest thing that I've come across out there in all my years of flying,' Hutchings said.
The workers took video and photos of the object, but left in place.
So far, it hasn't disturbed the bighorn sheep that live in the southern half of Utah.
Their population was once down to under a thousand in the 1970s, but conservation efforts have seen them make a big comeback in recent decades.
The crew was in the remote area to count bighorn sheep, which live in the southern half of Utah
The sheep are less wary of people in early December, which is their mating season.
'Because they're focused on courtship and breeding, they'll allow vehicles to get closer to them than they normally would,' Brent Stettler of Utah Division of Wildlife Resources told My National Parks Trip Media.
La febbre per gli UFO esplosa alla fine del 1973 accende l’immaginazione. Incaricato di un reportage sul caso, Mario Bariona sale in Val di Susa con il collega fotografo Moisio. Le montagne sono coperte di neve e ai due viene un’idea: usando un bastone opportunamente modificato, realizzano alcune gigantesche impronte (�almeno il doppio di quelle umane�) su un versante del Rocciamelone. Le fotografie di Moisio finiscono nella redazione di Stampa Sera e il 5 dicembre 1973 conquistano un titolo a sei colonne.
Bariona, che anni dopo confesserà la burla in privato, viene subito emulato da un collega. Se un’impronta sulla neve sparisce in fretta, un’incisione sulla pietra dura a lungo: Nevio Boni - anch’egli cronista di Stampa Sera - sale sul Musinè dalla frazione di Milanere, adocchia un menhir e vi realizza in segreto una suggestiva incisione.
Nella peggior tradizione italiota, le reazioni alla sua opera sono rigorosamente bipartisan: c’è chi avanza ipotesi archeologiche e chi teorie fantascientifiche. Sbagliano entrambi: troppo spesso ci si dimentica dei burloni, i cosiddetti trickster, cui piace confondere le carte e portare alla luce le contraddizioni.
Nevio Boni confesserà nel 1988 («Tutti i graffiti misteriosi sul Musinè l’ai faje mi (1) .» (2) ) ma questo non impedirà a Giuditta Dembech di riprodurre - venticinque anni dopo! - il menhir di Boni sulla copertina del libro Il Musinè (2013) e offrirne due letture opposte:
La lettura ufologica
Dobbiamo tornare indietro di molti secoli, fino alla preistoria, per risalire al primo avvistamento [UFO] documentato, avvenuto probabilmente in epoca neolitica. [�] La cronaca dell’avvistamento è graffita su una grande pietra, alta circa un metro e mezzo. [�] Tre omini levano le braccia verso il cielo, uno di essi pare inginocchiato o comunque reclinato su un lato, un altro ancora pare riverso per terra, forse morto, o ferito, o sacrificato� Nel cielo, sopra alle loro teste sono raffigurati tre �soli� di dimensioni diverse. Quello in primo piano, il più grande e più vicino a loro è raffigurato tagliato a metà, mentre quello più a sinistra è la classica raffigurazione del disco solare in pieno splendore: un cerchio con un puntino al centro. [�] Visto in chiave ufologica, sembrerebbe davvero la cronaca di un passaggio insolito nel cielo. (3)
La lettura archeologica
Il segno circolare che racchiude una minuscola coppella, è la classica raffigurazione dell’astro allo zenith, simbolo comune a molte civiltà preistoriche. L’incisione poco più in alto; dove il sole appare come un semicerchio, indica la sua posizione al tramonto, mentre quella in primo piano dovrebbe essere l’alba. Probabilmente il sole in primo piano è più grande perché il momento in cui l’astro appare all’orizzonte è sempre stato estremamente sacro e solenne. L’alba significava che, almeno ancora per quel giorno, la terra non sarebbe rimasta immersa nelle tenebre. Il tramonto al contrario, rappresentava un momento cruciale. Sprovveduti e indifesi com’erano, gli uomini dovevano vivere nel terrore di non veder più spuntare l’astro il giorno seguente. Ed ecco i personaggi del graffito in posizione di adorante supplica perché non scompaia all’orizzonte. (4)
Sono entrambe sbagliate, certo, ma qui siamo alla sagra della fantarcheologia di quart’ordine.
I due libri di Giuditta Dembech sul Musinè datati 1983 e 2013.
Il massimo del disimpegno lo troviamo in chiusura, dove la scrittrice conclude pilatesca:
Come diceva Hitchcock tagliando il finale dei suoi film: �…e adesso pensatela come volete.� (5)
Per fortuna c’è Andrea Arcà, del Gruppo Ricerche Cultura Montana. Nel suo libro sulle incisioni rupestri in Val di Susa lo studioso prende una posizione netta ma non priva di argomentazioni sottili:
Interpretato sia come raffigurazione di culto solare che come testimonianza di �incontri ravvicinati�, si rivela in realtà di esecuzione contemporanea e goliardica. [�] Il segno dell’incisione è più chiaro rispetto alla superficie circostante. Vi è in sostanza assenza di �patina�. Se noi incidiamo una pietra notiamo effettivamente come la zona incisa risulti più chiara, dato che l’incisone asporta lo strato superficiale e mette a nudo la parte non alterata dall’esposizione al sole e dagli agenti atmosferici, detta appunto �patina�. Tale patina si forma in genere nell’arco di uno o due secoli, a seconda della roccia e dell’esposizione. Ciò è ben visibile negli insediamenti in pietra, dove le date e le iniziali scolpite, risalenti per lo più al secolo scorso, mostrano già nel segno inciso una colorazione di patina uguale a quella esterna. (6)
Approfondimenti
• L’articolo “Strane orme in Val Susa”, Stampa Sera, 5 dicembre 1973 è disponibile nell’archivio de La Stampa (leggi)
• La scheda del menhir (codice SUS 99) sul sito ufficiale del Gruppo Ricerche Cultura Montana (vedi)
1. “Li ho fatti io” in dialetto piemontese. 2. Famiglia Cristiana 13/1988, p. 61. 3. Giuditta Dembech, Il Musinè, Ariete, Torino 2013 (I ed. 1983), pp. 22-24. 4. Giuditta Dembech, Il Musinè, Ariete, Torino 2013 (I ed. 1983), p. 26. 5. Giuditta Dembech, Il Musinè, Ariete, Torino 2013 (I ed. 1983), p. 29. 6. Andrea Arcà, La pietra e il segno. Incisioni rupestri il Valle di Susa, Tipolito Melli, Susa 1990, pp. 76 e 126.
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The mysterious monolith is about 10-12 feet tall.
