Can anyone read that?
Up close images make it look like a cheap knockoff of the Utah monument. Looks like someone grabbed some spare sheet metal and cobbled it together in a day or two.
Let’s hear it for copycats.
Hey, @PlaceboTarget is from Romania and hasn’t posted in a few days. I wonder if he’s been busy in his shop?
maybe a stunt to promote a business or website that went wrong
What Emily said.
It sounds like the monolith turned out to be made of plywood with metal sheathing. If so, it probably couldn’t have been there all that long. Even a desert gets enough rain to warp plywood if any moisture gets in, at least over a period of years.
Well, it showed up sometime between August 2015 (when it doesn’t appear on Google Earth) and October 2016 (when it does) so maybe that plywood was well sealed?
The Romanian monolith has also disappeared:
This is all going to turn out to be a PR stunt for some awful PS5 game or something isn’t it?
Is that what happened with that weird asymmetrical UFO, from many years back? I always wondered, but never heard what it was.
Marine plywood is made with waterproof glue. It’s not completely weatherproof, but it lasts longer than ordinary plywood when exposed to water.
The article about the removal mentioned cars and people coming from all directions to the spot and destroying the natural landscape. It sounds like the people who removed it did so to avoid further damage. I agree with that. Not only will this monolith create problems, other people will start putting them up and exacerbating the issue. A while back, people started putting up little doors at the bottom of trees along a hiking trail I went on. At first it was cute, but soon after there were doors everywhere and some of them were pretty crappy. Rains would wash them away and there’d be junk everywhere. The rangers started collecting them all and it’s much better when it’s just back to nature.
Ahem…
These weren’t regular doors. They were little doors put at the roots of the trees like fairy houses or something. Just a few inches tall. The first ones were well made and added a nice artistic accent to the trail, but soon after everyone wanted to get in on it and were putting up stuff made with paper, foam craft sheets, etc.
Ah, I misunderstood. Apologies.
The only good thing about this whole thing is the collective public has a very short attention span. One month it’ll be Faerie doors at the base of trees; next month it’ll be vaguely monolithic SF props in wilderness areas near roads. The following month it’ll be who-knows-what.
Social media makes each fad bigger geographically, but shorter temporally.
On Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, there are a bunch of fairy houses on one specific trail. There have been some issues with people using live materials or leaving trash while building them, but it’s generally considered an established attraction there.
Eating Tide Pods?
(That, BTW, was 99% urban legend.)