THE MYSTERY BEHIND UTAH MONOLITH DISAPPEARANCE.
                     THE MYSTERY BEHIND 
UTAH MONOLITH 
DISAPPEARANCE
INTRODUCTION
 In the remote Utah desert, a mysterious metal monolith emerged and removed by an unknown 
group. The puzzle of how it emerged persists, but it seems to have solved the riddle of its 
disappearance. 
 A few photos have recently appeared of four men employed at night to clear the rare, triangular 
pillar from its remote resting position in the desert of the western United States. 
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HOW IT GOT VIRAL?
 Visiting the monolith, photographer Ross Bernards took his Instagram handle and explained what 
happened.
 He started the post with "If you’re interested in what exactly happened to the monolith keep reading 
because I was literally there." 
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THE REAL STORY- PART 1
 Further narrating the plot, he said, “three friends and I rode the 6 hours down to the middle of 
nowhere in Utah and got to the trailhead about 7 pm after passing a sea of cars on our way in. We 
passed one group as we hiked to the enigmatic monolith, while another group was there when we 
arrived, and after we got there they left pretty quickly. 
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THE REAL STORY – PART 2
 Ross Bernards said, “I had just finished taking some 
photos of the monolith under the moonlight and was 
taking a rest, thinking about the settings I wanted to 
change for my last drone flight battery when we 
noticed some voices walking up the canyon. 
 When they came up, we were considering packing up 
our things, so they could enjoy it as we did for 
themselves. I glanced down at my watch at this point 
and it was 8:40 PM.
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THE REAL STORY – PART 3
 Further he wrote "4 guys rounded the corner and 2 of them walked forward. They gave a couple of 
pushes on the monolith and one of them said “You better have got your pictures.” 
 He then gave it a big push, and it went over, leaning to one side. He yelled back to his other friends 
that they didn’t need the tools. The other guy with him at the monolith then said “this is why you 
don’t leave trash in the desert.”
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THE REAL STORY – PART 4
 Then all four of them came up and pushed it almost to the ground on one side, before they decided 
push it back the other when it then popped out and landed on the ground with a loud bang. 
 They quickly broke it apart and as they were carrying to the wheelbarrow that they had brought one 
of them looked back at us all and said “Leave no trace.” That was at 8:48.
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ALIEN?
 In Stanley Kubrick's classic sci-fi movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" news of the discovery soon went 
viral around the world, with many noticing the object's resemblance to mysterious alien monoliths 
that cause tremendous strides in human development.
 The object's similarity to the avant-garde work of John McCracken, a US artist who lived in 
neighbouring New Mexico for a time and died in 2011, was pointed out by some observers.
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ART?
 The pilot, Hutchings, recognised that the silver monolith seemed to be some kind of installation of 
new wave sculpture, and soon people started to wonder which one.
 One hypothesis was that the monolith was a painting by a Southwestern artist who used to live and 
work in Utah, Petecia Le Fawnhawk. 
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WHAT OFFICIALS SAY?
 Officials who uncovered the monolith did not reveal the location of the icon out of concern that 
hordes of interested sightseers would flock to the remote wilderness, but hundreds of adventurers 
soon tracked it down despite the increasing curiosity.
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