The day after Thanksgiving, November 27th, 2020, we went on an excursion. There was a strange metal pillar that had been anonymously placed in northern San Juan county. There were a lot of people who were hiking in to take pictures of this unusual item. We drove on very bumpy roads for a very long time and then hiked for another good chunk of time and finally arrived at the "Monolith". It was pretty crazy to see it out there in the middle of nowhere and wonder how it had gotten there. There were many people there taking pictures, and even a helicopter that brought in a group. We took pictures and then hiked back out. We were told a couple of days later that the monolith had disappeared just as mysteriously as it had appeared.
Here are. some interesting facts that were published in Wikipedia about the Utah monolith:
Utah monolith
| Utah monolith | |
|---|---|
 The monolith at its original location | |
 Location where the monolith was found | |
| Artist | Unknown |
| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Metal sculpture |
| Medium | stainless steel or aluminum (assumed) |
| Dimensions | 291 cm × 50.6 cm × 58 cm (114.5 in × 19.92 in × 23.0 in)[1] |
| Condition | disassembled but later reassembled |
| Location | formerly Lockhart Basin in San Juan County, Utah, United States; 27 km (17 mi) southwest of Moab, currently held at undisclosed location by the Bureau of Land Management |
| 38°20′35.1″N 109°39′58.3″WCoordinates: 38°20′35.1″N 109°39′58.3″W | |
The Utah monolith is a metal pillar that stood in a red sandstone slot canyon in northern San Juan County, Utah, United States. The pillar is 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and made of metal sheets riveted into a triangular prism. It was unlawfully placed on public land between July and October 2016; it stood unnoticed for over four years until its discovery and removal in late 2020. The identity of its makers is unknown, as are their objectives.
Utah state biologists discovered the monolith in November 2020 during a helicopter survey of wild bighorn sheep. Within days of its discovery, members of the public found the pillar using GPS mapping software and made their way to the remote location. Following intense media coverage, it was covertly removed on November 27, 2020, by four residents of Moab, Utah. After nearly a month in their possession, the monolith was given to the Bureau of Land Management and is currently in their custody.[2][3][4]
Following the discovery of the monolith, over two hundred similar metal columns were erected in other places throughout the world,[5] including elsewhere in North America and countries in Europe and South America.[6] Many were built by local artists as deliberate imitations of the Utah monolith.[7]
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