Mysterious monolith found in Utah desert

[Zonker 2,427]

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/utah-monolith-art-trnd/index.html

Let's just hope its an art installation. If its aliens they have to wait until Jan until they say "take me to your head honcho"

[tommays 26]

Forgotten prop from 2001 space odyssey 

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

Markere foire the nexte burneng man festivus.

[mad 3,705]

3 hours ago, Zonker said:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/utah-monolith-art-trnd/index.html

Let's just hope its an art installation. If its aliens they have to wait until Jan until they say "take me to your head honcho"

They've been waiting for the last 4 years, another couple of months won't hurt.

[IStream 2,233]

Anyone paying attention to the Tycho Crater?

[Blue Crab 957]

I know of him on Twitter. Kinda boring really. 

[DA-WOODY 975]

4 hours ago, mad said:

They've been waiting for the last couple of months, another 4 years won't hurt.

fifU

[El Borracho 1,658]

If those rangers had any sense of art or humor they would have made a video showing them cowering in pain, covering their ears. Or thrown an iPhone at it. Boring.

[hobot 1,864]

Those Rangers need some Cow femurs to swing around.

[Windward 332]

 

 

[bplipschitz 297]

On 11/24/2020 at 3:58 AM, Zonker said:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/utah-monolith-art-trnd/index.html

Let's just hope its an art installation. If its aliens they have to wait until Jan until they say "take me to your head honcho"

Well, lessee:

1. It isn't a solid, one-piece construction

2. It isn't stone.

Ergo, it's not a monolith.

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

12 minutes ago, bplipschitz said:

Ergo, it's not a monolith.

Nevere rellize d you werre so litteralle.............                     

[DA-WOODY 975]

2 hours ago, bplipschitz said:

Well, lessee:

1. It isn't a solid, one-piece construction

2. It isn't stone.

Ergo, it's not a monolith.

what do you call 1 lith ???

[Al Paca 311]

I think I saw the movie. 

[Bump-n-Grind 589]

4 hours ago, bplipschitz said:

Well, lessee:

1. It isn't a solid, one-piece construction

2. It isn't stone.

Ergo, it's not a monolith.

yeah it's a stainless steel box held together with pop-rivets.. 

 

I was hoping they'd find DB Cooper inside...

[cyclone 273]

1 hour ago, DA-WOODY said:

what do you call 1 lith ???

Best of a top 10 lith

[Zonker 2,427]

Really, pop rivets? That's pretty cheesy. At least weld it and grind and polish the welds smooth so it's more mysterious.

Lazy artist or whoever.

[LB 15 4,645]

It bet when they open it they will find it stuffed full of missing trump supporters ballots.

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

21 minutes ago, Zonker said:

Really, pop rivets? That's pretty cheesy. At least weld it and grind and polish the welds smooth so it's more mysterious.

Lazy artist or whoever.

Aliens thet our notte as technicalley advansted as us?                                       

[DA-WOODY 975]

likely the future of communications / message boards

after the governments have all run their course

basically ya just piss on it

you can shit by it But you Must face North

[bplipschitz 297]

5 hours ago, DA-WOODY said:

8 hours ago, bplipschitz said:

Well, lessee:

1. It isn't a solid, one-piece construction

2. It isn't stone.

Ergo, it's not a monolith.

what do you call 1 lith ???

Lillith?

[Caca Cabeza 130]

So we can agree, it is not a monolith. Do we call it: A) multilith, or b) polylith.

Any others?

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

4 minutes ago, Caca Cabeza said:

So we can agree, it is not a monolith. Do we call it: A) multilith, or b) polylith.

Any others?

Chunke of metalle?

[bmiller 730]

I was thinking it could be something similar to the Delimitations project.

google search

There's a few around here but it doesn't look like the old 1821 border extended into utah.

[Mrleft8 2,098]

Thank god they haven't found the 12' tall cast salt penis I put out there in 1986.....

[SloopJonB 7,990]

2 hours ago, Caca Cabeza said:

So we can agree, it is not a monolith. Do we call it: A) multilith, or b) polylith.

Any others?

Doesn't look like a Multilith.

[Grande Mastere Dreade 2,029]

some sleuths have gone to google earth archives and have determined it was put there sometime 2015-2016

[Bump-n-Grind 589]

linky

 

[Left Shift 2,665]

10 hours ago, Snaggletooth said:

Aliens thet our notte as technicalley advansted as us?                                       

But they have infinite patience. 

[Caca Cabeza 130]

Too bad the folks with expensive helicopters, off road vehicles and expensive drones couldn't have figured this out faster than Sailing Anarchy.

That being said - one of my most memorable discussions with Capitan - )who has done 1 - 1/2 laps and is one of the smartest people I know) asked me a couple of years ago why I was asking "sailing anarchy" for help with a technical question, my reply was "Capitan, SA, and sailors in general, are independent, self reliant, problem solvers that follow the code of the sea: help other mariners".

Now I am sitting in Mazatlan on his Swan 47 diagnosing the voltage differential between the house bank and starting battery. I'll be checking the specific gravity in the morning after the Phoenix 12/50 charger does its wizardry overnight.

[Left Shift 2,665]

3 hours ago, Mrleft8 said:

Thank god they haven't found the 12' tall cast salt penis I put out there in 1986.....

Were you working with a reincarnation of the PlasterCasters at the time?

[sailm8 77]

Alien sash weight.

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

Just now, sailm8 said:

Alien sash weight.

Nowe wearre thickeng!                   

[Blue Crab 957]

I'm wondering how it got there from Sedona.

[cyclone 273]

18 hours ago, Bump-n-Grind said:

yeah it's a stainless steel box held together with pop-rivets..

DeLorean TARDIS 

[justsomeguy! 579]

 "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!'"

 

That's like, some erudite yammerin' right there.

 

[bmiller 730]

10 hours ago, Bump-n-Grind said:

linky

 

Help me out here, the link just takes me back to the last place I was looking at. I'd like to go check it out, anywhere red rocky in Utah is of interest to me. 

[Bump-n-Grind 589]

type utah mysterious monolith into google maps.. someone's already pinned it.

10 minutes ago, bmiller said:

Help me out here, the link just takes me back to the last place I was looking at. I'd like to go check it out, anywhere red rocky in Utah is of interest to me. 

edit: apparently google has removed the pin. 

[bmiller 730]

3 minutes ago, Bump-n-Grind said:

type utah mysterious monolith into google maps.. someone's already pinned it.

 

Tried that, no luck. Maybe got taken down?

[Bump-n-Grind 589]

 

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Copper+Mountain,+CO/38.3430886,-109.6661651/@38.988336,-110.2282803,663727m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x876a5ffec68ced8d:0xca5bfeededfc161b!2m2!1d-106.1516265!2d39.501419!1m0!3e0

 

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

37 minutes ago, Bump-n-Grind said:

type utah mysterious monolith into google maps.. someone's already pinned it.

edit: apparently google has removed the pin. 

The covere up hasse begunne!                               

[ancientseawolf 52]

-lith

a combining form meaning “stone” (megalith), “stone tool” ( microlith), “mass of rock” (batholith; laccolith), “calcareous concretion, calculus” ( otolith; urolith).

[bmiller 730]

14 minutes ago, Bump-n-Grind said:

 

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Copper+Mountain,+CO/38.3430886,-109.6661651/@38.988336,-110.2282803,663727m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x876a5ffec68ced8d:0xca5bfeededfc161b!2m2!1d-106.1516265!2d39.501419!1m0!3e0

 

Well hell, I've been right by there, last time was a year or so ago. By the time I get back it will have been overrun and trashed. 

[Bump-n-Grind 589]

4 minutes ago, bmiller said:

Well hell, I've been right by there, last time was a year or so ago. By the time I get back it will have been overrun and trashed. 

or painted up with graffiti..

 

[bmiller 730]

I'll get out in the next couple days and head down to the river to see if our local obelisk is still standing. Odds are it got wiped out last spring.

[Caca Cabeza 130]

Maybe this is what happens to things that return from outside the environment.

[d'ranger 2,542]

3 hours ago, ancientseawolf said:

-lith

a combining form meaning “stone” (megalith), “stone tool” ( microlith), “mass of rock” (batholith; laccolith), “calcareous concretion, calculus” ( otolith; urolith).

so a lil-lith would be a very small rock?

[DA-WOODY 975]

13 hours ago, Caca Cabeza said:

Too bad the folks with expensive helicopters, off road vehicles and expensive drones couldn't have figured this out faster than Sailing Anarchy.

That being said - one of my most memorable discussions with Capitan - )who has done 1 - 1/2 laps and is one of the smartest people I know) asked me a couple of years ago why I was asking "sailing anarchy" for help with a technical question, my reply was "Capitan, SA, and sailors in general, are independent, self reliant, problem solvers that follow the code of the sea: help other mariners".

Now I am sitting in Mazatlan on his Swan 47 diagnosing the voltage differential between the house bank and starting battery. I'll be checking the specific gravity in the morning after the Phoenix 12/50 charger does its wizardry overnight.

Not everyone with a Helicopter from here Buzzes around there

it's a logistical thingie

point out something in SoCal ..... Coast to Mountains (west desert)

Preferably w large Breasted Cougars and a spot to land

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

34 minutes ago, d'ranger said:

3 hours ago, ancientseawolf said:

-lith

a combining form meaning “stone” (megalith), “stone tool” ( microlith), “mass of rock” (batholith; laccolith), “calcareous concretion, calculus” ( otolith; urolith).

so a lil-lith would be a very small rock?

I woudentte saye that.........               

[familysailor 121]

Did anyone else notice it's triangular?

 

 

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

1 hour ago, familysailor said:

Did anyone else notice it's triangular?

Notte till I wached the vidio, that dose add to the mysterey.....................                 

[familysailor 121]

30 minutes ago, Snaggletooth said:

Notte till I wached the vidio, that dose add to the mysterey.....................                 

In the first photos posted by the helicopter guys you can see the top...barely. A later longer version of their video shows the three sides as they walk around it.

Makes it more interesting that a square post.

Message inside?

[Caca Cabeza 130]

11 minutes ago, familysailor said:

In the first photos posted by the helicopter guys you can see the top...barely. A later longer version of their video shows the three sides as they walk around it.

Makes it more interesting that a square post.

Message inside?

Maybe it's used for sharpening razor blades.

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

7 minutes ago, Caca Cabeza said:

Maybe it's used for sharpening razor blades.

Or rechargeng batteriese, healle youre chakras, hormonize youre soulle, minde, bodey, and you braine.                             

[Leeroy Jenkins 200]

It's being covered on As It Happens. 

[peragrin 44]

On 11/26/2020 at 8:20 PM, familysailor said:

In the first photos posted by the helicopter guys you can see the top...barely. A later longer version of their video shows the three sides as they walk around it.

Makes it more interesting that a square post.

Message inside?

A triangle is also easier to haul.  Three same sized panels and a top/bottom piece.  A rectangle would have a lot more pieces.

[bmiller 730]

1 hour ago, peragrin said:

A triangle is also easier to haul.  Three same sized panels and a top/bottom piece.  A rectangle would have a lot more pieces.

If it was tapered to the top, pyramid like, no top piece needed. 

Amateurs 

[Grande Mastere Dreade 2,029]

8 hours ago, bmiller said:

If it was tapered to the top,

Amateurs 

 

designed by Brit Chance?

[dreadom 226]

On 11/26/2020 at 11:51 PM, sailm8 said:

Alien sash weight.

Exactly what I was going to say

[Jules 1,870]

How long until someone plants another?  Maybe they could put it in the middle of a crop circle next to the Bigfoot tracks.

[ExOmo 105]

On 11/25/2020 at 10:27 AM, Bump-n-Grind said:

yeah it's a stainless steel box held together with pop-rivets.. 

 

I was hoping they'd find DB Cooper inside...

 

[ExOmo 105]

On 11/25/2020 at 10:48 AM, Zonker said:

Really, pop rivets? That's pretty cheesy. At least weld it and grind and polish the welds smooth so it's more mysterious.

Lazy artist or whoever.

Maybe it was 3D printed and popped from the inside out....

[Bump-n-Grind 589]

Jimmy Hoffa's headstone?

[Kent H 32]

I am just surprised that nothing has turned up yet to explain it.   Was it a prop to a movie?    Loch Ness has a Nessi monster on the bottom from a movie.   

 

[Black Sox 660]

23 hours ago, peragrin said:

A triangle is also easier to haul.  Three same sized panels and a top/bottom piece.  A rectangle would have a lot more pieces.

A lot more? Not just one more?

[bmiller 730]

Well that didnt take long, its gone.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/11/28/utahs-desert-obelisk-has/

 

This still remains.

http://hiddencolorado.kunc.org/soldierstone/

[Innocent Bystander 843]

1 hour ago, bmiller said:

This still remains.

http://hiddencolorado.kunc.org/soldierstone/

Thanks. Was not aware of that memorial. Strong stuff. 
 

[bmiller 730]

2 minutes ago, Innocent Bystander said:

Thanks. Was not aware of that memorial. Strong stuff. 
 

Come out to CO next year, I'll take you there.

[Not for nothing 226]

GONE
 

Mysterious Metal Monolith In Utah Desert Suddenly Vanishes

E.T., phone monolith.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-desert-monolith-space-aliens-vanishes_n_5fc3275ac5b66bb88c6781c

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

Ist fifteene munittes of faime our overe.................                                     

[Bump-n-Grind 589]

it'll probably turn up on eBay or craigslist

 

 

[Rasputin22 2,565]

On 11/25/2020 at 6:36 PM, Caca Cabeza said:

So we can agree, it is not a monolith. Do we call it: A) multilith, or b) polylith.

Any others?

Sololith?

[Rasputin22 2,565]

On 11/26/2020 at 9:51 AM, Snaggletooth said:

The covere up hasse begunne!                               

Cover up? Looks like it is gone but still casting a shadow on Google Earth!

[Mark K 1,341]

6 hours ago, Not for nothing said:

GONE
 

Mysterious Metal Monolith In Utah Desert Suddenly Vanishes

E.T., phone monolith.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-desert-monolith-space-aliens-vanishes_n_5fc3275ac5b66bb88c6781c

Oh well, it was just full of stars anyway. 

[SloopJonB 7,990]

21 hours ago, Grande Mastere Dreade said:

 

designed by Brit Chance?

Nope - then it would be all squared off.

[mad 3,705]

On 11/25/2020 at 7:06 PM, LB 15 said:

It bet when they open it they will find it stuffed full of missing trump supporters ballots.

sash weights

[mad 3,705]

On 11/26/2020 at 12:51 PM, sailm8 said:

Alien sash weight.

Beat me too it.

[Dorado 596]

I'm guessing it will mysteriously show up someplace else.

And then disappear and show up again in some other place.

That's one brilliant artist. The whole world is talking about their work. It's become a global event.

Bravo ! WFD.

 

[Mark K 1,341]

44 minutes ago, mad said:

sash weights

Let's hope it's not a naming and claiming marker. 

 

[Blue Crab 957]

It just stayed long enough to check out cable news.

[Pipe Dream 67]

On 11/26/2020 at 11:52 PM, Snaggletooth said:

Nowe wearre thickeng!                   

Was it delivered to site by Harley or Corvette? Maybe a flock of Swans took it there piece by piece??? 

[Snaggletooth 2,884]

3 minutes ago, Pipe Dream said:

On 11/26/2020 at 7:52 AM, Snaggletooth said:

Nowe wearre thickeng!                   

Was it delivered to site by Harley or Corvette? Maybe a flock of Swans took it there piece by piece??? 

Swanee coude of paide the 'loude pipe" gangue to staye farr frome hisse house and droppe it theire.  He ist sneakey that waye.........                 

[Windward 332]

23 hours ago, Pipe Dream said:

Was it delivered to site by Harley or Corvette? Maybe a flock of Swans took it there piece by piece??? 

Ridgeline

[Jules 1,870]

On 11/29/2020 at 8:02 AM, Not for nothing said:

Mysterious Metal Monolith In Utah Desert Suddenly Vanishes

My guess is government officials feared another cult following and pulled it.  It's pretty clear there are way too many of those types roaming the country.

[billy backstay 944]

On 11/29/2020 at 2:23 PM, SloopJonB said:

Nope - then it would be all squared off.

 

Ted Turner to Britt Chance, RE: America's Cup,12 Meter, "Mariner":

 

"Hell Britt, even a turd is pointed on both ends!"

 

Britt had an office in the local Dauntless Shipyard*, decades ago...  Nice guy, when I met him.  

 

* Now a Corporate owned "Safe Harbors" conglomerate Marina, and last I heard Ted's and DC's former crewman, Rives Potts was in charge of all of them, working from their Texas offices....

[Zonker 2,427]

Monolith appears in Romania

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mb84/mysterious-monolith-update-new-mysterious-monolith-appears-in-romania

Now if somebody had been clever, they should have measured it. People are lazy. I bet the Utah one was built in even increments of inches.

I'll bet the Romanian one is in even increments of mm. (like 2500mm high x 500 w etc).

If you really want to mess with people you pick measurements that are not even in either system

[Jules 1,870]

1 minute ago, Zonker said:

Monolith appears in Romania

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mb84/mysterious-monolith-update-new-mysterious-monolith-appears-in-romania

Now if somebody had been clever, they should have measured it. People are lazy. I bet the Utah one was built in even increments of inches.

I'll bet the Romanian one is in even increments of mm. (like 2500mm high x 500 w etc).

If you really want to mess with people you pick measurements that are not even in either system

Now if it was built in cubits...

[Dorado 596]

On 11/29/2020 at 11:56 AM, Dorado said:

I'm guessing it will mysteriously show up someplace else.

And then disappear and show up again in some other place.

That's one brilliant artist. The whole world is talking about their work. It's become a global event.

Bravo ! WFD.

 

DOH !