It’s unclear if the men who took it down were responsible for installing it. Newlands’ images are the only known shots of the monolith being removed. Newlands’ blurry snapshots show several men wearing gloves - but without masks - while standing over the monolith, which is hollow and has a framework made of plywood, the Times reported. Mysterious monolith disappears from Utah desert But a friend of his from Denver, James Newlands, 38, managed to get a few images with his cellphone, he said. He did post other shots on Instagram, however. Worried about a possible confrontation and suspecting the men might be armed, Bernards decided not to snap photos of them. “As they walked off with the pieces, one of them said, ‘Leave no trace,’” Bernards told the newspaper.
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Ross Bernards, a 34-year-old photographer from Colorado, told the newspaper he drove six hours earlier that night to get a glimpse of the peculiar structure that prompted worldwide speculation over how it got there, since it was installed illegally on public lands.Īfter pushing the monolith to the ground, Bernards said, the men broke it apart and took it away in a wheelbarrow, the New York Times reported. 18 was taken down late Friday by a team of four men who worked in pairs and shoved it to the ground, the New York Times reported. The three-sided stainless-steel structure first spotted by wildlife officials counting sheep in southeastern Utah on Nov. Son shoots at his father over wrong order of chicken wings: reportįour men were spotted removing the mysterious metal monolith when it disappeared from a remote section of Utah, an eyewitness claims. Sword-wielding man charged with holding woman hostage for two weeks Utah man allegedly spiked his ex’s coffee with meth
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When the monolith had appeared in Utah, many people had theorised that it might be the work of an artist who’s an ardent fan of Arthur C Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey some even suspected that he/she removed it from Utah after people started finding its exact coordinates.How to stay in a real-life Grinch’s cave with green furry slippers, ‘Roast Beast’ Whether someone has just given it dust curls with their fingers or it’s an engraved design, is not exactly clear. In contrast to what could be seen in picture’s in Utah’s monolith, the one in Romania seems to have some kind of a pattern on it. Both the possibilities, in all honesty, are a bit unsettling. We’re inclined to believe that this is a different monolith altogether, because otherwise someone either transported the one in Utah over 9500 km to Romania, or the structure sprouted some sort of wings and did it on its own.
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It was spotted a few metres away from the Petrodava Dacian Fortress - a fort built by the ancient Dacian people between 82 BC and AD 106, and a famous archeological site. The prism-shaped structure was found on Batca Doamnei Hill in the city of Piatra Neamt, in northern Romania. That, however, is not the end of the tale of monoliths, because now, a very similar looking metal structure has been found in Romania, a week after the one in Utah vanished. Monolith that was found in Utah/Dailymail And then, lo and behold, it mysteriously disappeared - allegedly removed by an ‘unknown party’. Local officials counting sheep from a helicopter spotted it, and were perplexed by its presence and nature.
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Case in point - the mysterious monolith that was found standing in the middle of nowhere in Utah, all sleek and shiny. Just when you think 2020 can’t possibly get any weirder, it does.