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Today’s Big Fact-Based News Story — Saturday, November 28, 2020
That Monolith in the Utah desert. ‘2020 an Earth Odessey’.
On November 18, 2020, researchers from the State of Utah were carrying out a survey of sheep on the desert from a helicopter. As they scanned the landscape one of the biologists spotted an unusual structure and told pilot Bret Hutchings to fly over the location again. Hutchings described the moment of discovery.
“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!’”
Hutchings said the object appeared manmade and was planted in the ground, not dropped from the sky.
So what was it? A metallic pillar 9.5 feet (2.9 m) tall.
This is what is known.
- In November 2020, the metallic pillar 9.5 feet (2.9 m) tall was discovered in the red canyons of southeast Utah.
-Widely described as a monolith, it appears to be made of stainless steel together into the shape of a triangular prism.
- It dates to sometime between August 2015 and October 2016,
