Ella Scott
Another monolith has been mysteriously erected but citizens believe it’s more likely to signal a ‘viral campaign’ rather than provide solid confirmation of extraterrestrial life.
Local residents have claimed a mirrored monolith has appeared in the desert just weeks after a similar structure was spotted north of the Las Vegas Valley.
On June 21, The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department worked to take down the sculpture, situated near Gass Peak.
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And while no confirmed connections have been made between the new monolith in northern Colorado and the one near Las Vegas, people have reportedly been flocking to the new site to see the statue for themselves.
Lori Graves, the owner of the Howling Cow Cafe near the monument in Bellvue, told KDVR that people have been entering her eatery to ply her with questions.
“It was Sunday morning when someone came into the cafe and said, ‘Where is the Monolith?’” she told the news outlet. “‘Where is the Alien monolith?’”
While Graves claims she isn’t 100 percent sure who has placed the obelisk in the desert, she has a hunch.
“I almost don’t want to ruin the mystery around it,” she added. “I’m not going to ask people.”
After hearing about the new reflective column, social media users have been having their say.
One took to Reddit and wrote: “I, for one, welcome our new monolith alien overlords.”
Another alleged: “Gotta be a viral campaign. same monolith popped up on Gass Peak outside Vegas last week… “
“I just took a drive and went to see it. It definitely looks alien to me,” claimed a third Redditor. “I spoke with someone in the coffee shop who said that it was made of some kind of composite metal not known here on Earth?”
Someone else joked: “Probably the doorway to hell.”
Another Reddit user alleged that the rectangular structure had been put up by a homeowner who wanted to ‘mess’ with someone who believed in ‘aliens, and conspiracies’.
However, this report is yet to be confirmed.
The Colorado and Las Vegas monoliths come months after another mysterious sculpture was discovered on a remote hill in Wales.
In 2020, similar structures also popped up in Utah and California.
These latter monoliths were later revealed to be the works of The Most Famous Artist - a Mexican group who admitted they were ‘known for stunts of this nature’.
These bizarre reflective columns are believed to stem from Arthur C. Clarke's ‘Space Odyssey’ fiction novels, developed concurrently with Stanley Kubruck's sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The fictional monoliths imagined by Clarke and Kubruck were a little different to what we’ve spotted across our world though.
The author and the director’s versions were depicted as large, black machines used by aliens to control human evolution.