Mystery of the metal monolith found in Utah
It's being described as the stuff of sci-fi sagas.
A giant, gleaming metal slab was found last week in a remote part of the Utah desert.
It was discovered by a helicopter pilot and Utah wildlife officers who had been in the area looking for bighorn sheep, a protected species in the state.
They landed their plane to take a closer look, but could find no obvious indication as to how the metal monolith got there or why it was there.
Pilot Bret Hutchings said he assumed it must be the work of a new wave artist, or a fan of the sci-fi film 'Space Odyssey.'
In the movie, an alien monolith is a recurring symbol that appears to play a key role in a man's evolution from the apes.
Others on social media said the random otherworldly discovery was very 2020:
'Finally someone gets it!' one Twitter user wrote. "This is the 2020 reset we've been waiting for! Where is the mothership?"
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management declined to comment late on Tuesday, but issued a statement on Twitter reminding people that "using, occupying or developing public land without authorization was illegal, no matter what planet you are from."
