The mysterious metallic plate of the Utah desert has disappeared

The shiny metallic plate found a few days ago in the Utah desert (United States) disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared. The silver monolith, which had spawned the wildest theories – such as that it was placed there by beings from other planets – has been removed to an “unknown part”, said the state’s land management agency, cited by the American media. , in a Facebook post. .

“It was one of the strangest things I have come across in all the years that I have taken as a pilot,” says Bret Hutchings, who was driving a helicopter when the mysterious monolith was first spotted on 18 November. On board was a biologist who spotted the strange metallic rectangular plate mirrored in the middle of nowhere. “There is something there, we have to go and see what it is”, warned the biologist to the pilot of the helicopter, shortly before landing next to the monolith.

The structure was 3.6 meters high and resembled the monolith made famous in the film “2001: Odisseia no Espaço”.

CNN reveals that the location of the monolith was not disclosed because the authorities did not want the curious to be trapped in the remote landscape at the risk of being rescued. A caution that did not prevent the expedition of some people to the hidden gorge in southern Utah. One of them was almost lost along the way. Another three traveled through the darkness of the desert to get there.

Several people have already shared selfies on social networks alongside the strange monolith that has now disappeared and whose authorship remains unknown. Local authorities have declared that it is prohibited by law to build private works of art, without any type of authorization, on land that belongs to the State “regardless of the planet from which its authors originate”.