What started as routine wildlife assistance took an extraterrestrial turn for Utah's Department of Public Safety after officers stumbled upon a mysterious monolith in the middle of rural Utah.
Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety's Aero Bureau were flying by helicopter last Wednesday, helping the Division of Wildlife Resources count bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, when they spotted something that seemed right out of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"One of the biologists ... spotted it, and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it," pilot Bret Hutchings told CNN affiliate KSL. "He was like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!' And I was like, 'What.' And he's like, 'There's this thing back there -- we've got to go look at it!'" [Reply]
On a related note, I ran a race last year in an area in Colorado that was close to the Utah border, so it looked kind of like the picture in this article. It was pretty remote. I took my phone and you can see pictures of the race route below, which ran along the top edge of the cliff.
I was up on top of the cliff near the edge and looked down at a little cul-de-sac area that was about a hundred feet straight down. There was no road to that lower area, and it was invisible unless you were up on the cliff, and it would be a pain to hike there because the cliffs go on for miles. And in that little cul-de-sac there was a huge narrow rock, maybe 10 feet tall, standing upright with a capstone rock atop it that was maybe four feet in diameter. There's no way it would have occurred naturally, so someone - or something - was down in that remote area lifting and arranging multi-ton rocks. Maybe it's related to this thing in Utah.
I bet I have a picture of the alien rock, but I took a lot of pictures and it's hard to pick it out of them.
A monolith is an alien "do not enter" sign. They know the Earth is a bad neighborhood so the monolith is broadcasting, "Roll up your windows and fly on by as quickly as possible." [Reply]
