Las Vegas police recently found a monolith in the desert north of the city. It resembles the monoliths found in Moab, Utah and downtown Las Vegas in 2020.
North Las Vegas, Nevada – The saying, “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” isn’t entirely true this week, as social media is abuzz about a mysterious rock that appeared in the desert north of the city.
“We see a lot of weird things when people go hiking like not being prepared for the weather, not bringing enough water… but look at this!” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department posted on social media. “Over the weekend, Las Vegas Metro Search and Rescue spotted this mysterious monolith near Gas Peak on the north side of the valley. How did it get there??”
Mysterious monoliths started appearing in 2020
This isn’t the first time a metal statue has appeared out of nowhere in Sin City. One first appeared near the Golden Nugget Casino in downtown Las Vegas.
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In December 2020, this monolith appeared on Freemont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
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The shiny, Fremont Street pillar was one of many that appeared around the world in 2020. Each pillar is hollow and made of metal slabs ranging from about 9 to 12 feet high.
According to the Utah Department of Public Safety, the trend gained momentum on November 18, 2020, when a group of biologists from the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources spotted the structure while flying over the desert miles from Moab and near Canyonlands National Park.
A few days later, it was mysteriously removed. A media uproar ensued. A search on Google Earth eventually revealed that someone had placed the statue in 2016, according to a Google Doc listing, “Tracking the Monoliths,” apparently curated by Zebra #125.
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Biologists counting bighorn sheep in the air discovered the first of many monoliths to be found around the world.
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A few days later, the first monolith was removed and on the same day a second monolith appeared, this time in eastern Romania.
“This monolith had strange zigzag markings on one side and was much less well-made than the Utah monolith,” wrote #zebra125. “Some believed it was a copycat, others believed it was the second clue in the larger monolith mystery. But then, on December 1st, this monolith disappeared just like its predecessor.”
The very next day, an artwork appeared in Atascadero, California, which was destroyed by self-proclaimed activists a day later. An artwork appeared in downtown Las Vegas. Then another artwork appeared in Joshua Tree National Park in California.
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In 2020 alone, #Zebra125 counted nine similar monoliths that appear to belong to the same person or group. Eight on the list are considered dubious, four were “confirmed fakes” and another two were considered fakes but not confirmed.
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The ‘monolith’ was discovered on Friday, November 27, on a hill overlooking Piatra Neamt and near the archaeological site of an old fortress above Batca Doamnei lake. Local media said it was three to four metres high and appeared to be empty inside. The structure disappeared on November 30.
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The third monolith in Atascadero, California.
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View of a metal monolith on the Zamkova Hora hill in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 11, 2020. Also some media outlets have suggested that the monolith is possibly an advertisement for Ukraine’s new postal operator. The sudden appearance of several metal monoliths in various parts of the world caused a resonance in the media and numerous discussions on social networks. Science fiction fans have compared them to the mysterious extraterrestrial monoliths shown in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ by Stanley Kubrick.
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People observe and photograph a metal monolith that has emerged on the Sa Conca beach in Castell-Plaza d’Aro, near Girona, Spain, March 31, 2021.
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On February 06, 2021, at the ancient site of Göbeklitepe, known as the oldest temple in the world, in Sanliurfa, Turkey, a monolith, triangular in shape and made of metal in structure, appeared.
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A metal structure resembling a metal monolith is seen near the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland on December 10, 2020.
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A photo taken on December 10, 2020, shows a mysterious metal pillar that was discovered in a field in Assende, Belgium.
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The actual size and shape vary slightly. One of the monoliths visible in Spain was shaped like a rectangle. There was a gold monolith in Columbia. According to #Zebra125, four artists took credit for a second, “stronger” monolith that replaced the initial Atascadero sculpture. The latter is believed to be a copy and still stands today.
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The shop owner admitted that he had built the monolith for publicity.
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Another group of artists claimed to be the original creators of Utah and Joshua Tree art, but this is not confirmed.
According to Tracking the Monoliths, one structure on England’s Isle of Wight has a slanted top, is not glazed and is “of extremely high quality and is well dug into the ground.”
A man told a Fox 5 Atlanta reporter that he knew who placed the monolith in Newnan, Georgia in December 2020, but did not name that person.
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File: A mysterious monolith appeared in Newnan, Georgia in December 2022. Fox 5 Atlanta’s Janice Wu investigated and spoke to resident Brandon Thrasher, who witnessed it himself.
Memorials have also been erected in Canada, New Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium, Colorado, Germany, Texas, Poland, and Russia.
2001: A Space Odyssey
If this sounds familiar to you, you may be a science-fiction fan. Aliens placed similar-looking black monoliths in the solar system in the book and movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
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An image from “2001: A Space Odyssey” shows astronauts on the moon’s surface looking into a hangar containing the monolith.
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Astronaut Thomas Jones brought a replica monolith and book with him aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in 2001. According to the National Air and Space Museum, he used the monolith to demonstrate weightlessness in space and compare Arthur C. Clarke’s futuristic version of space travel to the real thing.
