A
team from the Utah Wildlife Resources Department found a strange structure that
looked like monoliths in the Utah desert, prompting netizens to spread jokes
about the weirdness of 2020.
Department
employees were conducting a census of the number of large sheep in a remote
area of southeast Utah last week when they detected a strange object with a
helicopter from the state's Public Safety Department.
Utah Department of Public Safety
The
Utah Department of Public Safety said in a press release that it had not
discovered the site of the monolith because it was located in a "very
remote" area.
Although
it is unclear how this structure was set up in such an area, experts believe
that it may have been a kind of artwork. Therefore, in its statement, the
administration reminded the public that it is illegal to tamper with the
protected lands.
It
is illegal to install structures or artwork on federally administered public
lands without a license, "regardless of which planet they belong to."
The
mysterious structure caused a sensation on social media, with Twitter users
referring to the infamous Monolith from Stanley Kubrick's book 2001: A Space
Odyssey (2001: A Space Odyssey).
We may never know where the metallic object came from. Utah officials said they are still investigating whether the strange discovery warrants further investigation.
