A mysterious monolith installed near Las Vegas is removed and stored “in a secret location” | world

A mysterious monolith found on a hill near Las Vegas in the Nevada desert It has been removed from the siteAs reported by Las Vegas police on Friday (21).

The removal took place on Thursday (20th). According to the local police, The object is kept in a secret location While the authorities determine the most appropriate method of disposal/storage of the item.

As confirmed by Las Vegas police The official dimensions of the monolith are 1.95 meters high and 33 cm wide. Authorities said the object was made of reflective metal sheets folded into a triangle shape and secured to the ground with rebar and concrete.

The object is a monolith (large stone), which was Perfectly planted into the ground at Gass PeakIt is one of the highest peaks in the area north of Las Vegas, at more than 7,000 feet.

But where did the creature come from? This is a mystery that the US Fish and Wildlife Service said it is trying to solve. Until this report was published, no one had claimed to have authored the structure.

Las Vegas police said on Friday (21).It is still unknown how the monolith got to the site or who could be responsible. He also stated that there is currently no police investigation into the body.

According to police, the rectangular mirror object is different from “many of the strange things people encounter when they go hiking” in the Gas Peak Mountains, part of the state's Desert National Wildlife Refuge, where wild sheep and desert tortoises can be raised. is found.

The appearance of the monolith in the Las Vegas desert, as happened in 2020 in Utah, brings to mind the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” by director Stanley Kubrick. In the film, an object with similar characteristics to the one found this weekend appears in the desert to apes and is attributed to aliens.

In real life, some of the monoliths have been spotted in various places around the world for a few years, but they are generally works commissioned by artists. A series of rock blocks appeared at the end of 2020 in different parts of the world, such as Utah, USA, the Isle of Wight, the UK, and Romania, and were claimed by the group The Most Famous Artist. The last of them was found in March this year in Wales.

The monolith is located atop Jass Mountain, within the Nevada Desert National Wildlife Refuge, home to bighorn sheep and rare plants. Place It is the largest wildlife reserve outside of Alaska, occupying an area five times larger than the city of São Paulo..