Law officers have been left baffled after the discovery of a mysterious gleaming monolith in a remote mountain range in the desert near Las Vegas.
The authorities became aware of the bizarre structure after it was spotted glinting in the distance in the dry hills above the famous resort city. Members of a volunteer search and rescue unit reported coming across the mirrored object near Gass Peak in Nevada’s Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
In a post on social media officers said they had no idea how the space-age looking monolith came to be standing alone in the Mojave Desert, but it is not the first such oddity spotted out there in recent years. Las Vegas police shared an image of the discovery on X (formerly Twitter ), saying: “We see a lot of weird things when people go hiking like not being prepared for the weather, not bringing enough water... but check this out!
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The metal monoliths have been popping up all around the globe since 2010 (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police De / SWNS)“Over the weekend, (LV Search and Rescue) spotted this mysterious monolith near Gass Peak north of the valley.” The sighting is the latest in a string of such encounters with instances of mysterious shiny columns popping up around the world on record since at least 2020.
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The first such occurrence was a 12-foot-tall metal monolith similar to the one seen in Las Vegas which was discovered deep in the desert in Utah in November 2020. The area where it was found was so remote that officials kept the location a secret at first out of fear that curious members of the public would get lost or stranded in the deep desert trying to find the unusual object.
Since then sightings of similar monoliths have been reported in Romania, central California and in downtown Las Vegas on Fremont Street. In March 2024, a 10ft monolith appeared on a hill in Wales, causing confusion amongst locals.
The reflective monolith has appeared on a hiking trail near Las Vegas leaving officials baffled (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police De / SWNS)Richard Haynes, who took photographs of the Welsh sighting while running on Hay Bluff, told WalesOnline : “I went off towards Hay Bluff towards where the trig point is and I looked over to my right. I thought it looked a bit bizarre and might be a scientific media research thing collecting rainwater.
“But then realised it was way too tall and strange for that. Then I went up to it and it was about 10-foot-tall at least and triangular, definitely stainless steel. It was hollow and I imagine pretty light. Light enough for two people to carry it up and plant it in the ground.”
A few weeks after it was first spotted, the Utah monolith was pushed over and broken into pieces by a group of four men, according to an eyewitness. One of the men said “this is why you don’t leave trash in the desert,” before removing the remains in a wheelbarrow.
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