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What is a Monolith?

In the recent past, the monolith made an appearance in the American states of Utah, California, and Romania. The mysterious monolith was seen on the Isle of Wight. Many of these tall, shiny pillars have now been found at various locations around the world without any statutory warning or any explanation since the mid of November. The shining metal objects called the monolith have sparked many conspiracy theories on social media.

What is a monolith?

According to the Collins Dictionary, a monolith is a "very large, upright piece of stone, especially one that was put in place in ancient times". A famous example for this can be the Stonehenge - which is a collection of monoliths on earth.

What do you know about monolith?

The first ever monolith was discovered in the United States, when a helicopter crew was flying over a remote part of a Utah desert counting sheep spotted a strange shiny metal statue on November 18.

While authorities, scientists were speculating how the object was installed at a remote spot in the desert, the monolith disappeared just as surprisingly as it appeared on 27 November.

Around soon as the Utah one vanished, a shiny metal monolith appeared on the other side of the globe in the Romanian hillside.

Let’s know more about the Monoliths of Utah and Romania.

During a routine survey in the month of November, of bighorn sheep in Utah’s Red Rock Country, the US state’s wildlife agency discovered a 10-12 ft tall, three-sided metal monolith at the base of a canyon. When the team on the helicopter went down to investigate, they found that there were no indications of how or when it appeared there, or who had installed it so nicely into the canyon’s rocky floor.

In an official statement issued on November 23, the Utah Department for Public Safety announced the discovery and speculated that it was most likely an art installation by a “new wave artist” or a prank by a “2001: Space Odyssey fan”.

The Federal Bureau of Land Management’s Utah office announced that the Red Rock Country monolith had been removed “by an unknown party” on November 27, with rocks left to mark the place where it had stood.

Then on 30th November, another similar structure of monolith was being spotted in the Batca Doamnei Hill in Romania. The surface of the Romanian monolith, however, is covered in looping scrawls, unlike the Utah monolith.

Popular theories:-

Extra-terrestrial origins:

The most popular theory which is, perhaps, being bandied about only half-jokingly, is that these monoliths, like the mysterious object in the Kubrick film, are artefacts left on earth by an alien race.

Art:

Far more credible is the theory that these objects are artworks, created and installed in the vein of the Land Art movement which emerged in the 1960s and 70s. The movement sought to reject the commodification of art by using materials “of the earth”, such as rocks, sand, water, to make artistic interventions in a landscape. These landscapes were, typically, in remote, inaccessible places. The most famous example of land art can be the Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), in which a gargantuan sculpture was created using rocks and salt crystals in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. It is, in fact, being widely speculated that the Utah monolith is the work of John McCraken, an acclaimed minimalist sculptor, with a love for science fiction.

Hoax or prank:

Another theory that has got a lot of support is that this is a prank along the lines of the crop circles that began to mysteriously appear in fields in Wiltshire, England in the 1970s and which gained international notoriety as signs of extraterrestrial activity on earth. While scientists sought explanations in wind patterns for the geometrical designs which would suddenly appear in fields, and conspiracy theorists sought to decode the patterns of circles in order to determine what they believed were alien communications.

 

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