• What is the mysterious monolith discovered by a helicopter pilot in Utah?

The mysterious

"metal monolith"

of unknown origin, whose recent discovery in a desert in the western United States caused all kinds of speculation, has

disappeared,

local officials said Saturday.

Utah's spatial planning office said it received "credible testimony" that someone had removed the object on Friday night.

"The office did not remove the structure, which is considered private property," he said in a statement.

"We do not investigate crimes related to private property, which depend on the local sheriff's office," he added.

The triangular metal block, more than 3.5 meters high, was discovered in mid-November by local officials who were flying over the area in search of specimens of bighorn sheep.

A strange metal monolith appears in the middle of the desert in Utah

Upon landing to investigate, crew members from the Utah Department of Public Safety found the "metal monolith installed in the ground," but "no obvious indication" of who might have put it there.

News of the find quickly went viral on the internet,

and many noted the similarity of the object to the strange alien monoliths that unleashed huge advances in human progress in Stanley Kubrick's famous 1968 science fiction film '2001: A Space Odyssey'.

Although officials refused to reveal the location of the object for fear that hordes of onlookers would approach the place, an internet race was soon launched to find its location, with the help of the surrounding geological formations.

Some claimed to have located the site.

Some observers noted the

resemblance of the object to the avant-garde work of John McCracken,

an American artist who lived for a time in the neighboring state of New Mexico and died in 2011.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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