Jan. 14, 2021
Lately we were apprised of an odd phenomenon that occurred almost simultaneously in a number of places: the mysterious appearance of shiny metal pillars, monolithic in appearance (from the Greek: mono, “one”; and lithos, “stone”). These monument-like structures were placed in remote locations, difficult to access, in different corners of the globe.
The story begins in the United States. A team from the department of public safety in Utah, flying low by helicopter over one of the remotest corners of the state’s colorful sandstone desert areas, in an effort to track wild sheep populations, suddenly spotted a glistening metal column amid the red rocks, something that seemed to have come straight out of a science fiction movie. The helicopter landed close by, the team filmed the mysterious structure and alerted law enforcement officials, in this case the rangers of the state’s parks department, who launched an investigation. Then, wondrously, a few days later