Mysterious, Metallic Monolith Discovered in Southern Utah Rocky Wilderness. – Members

“Inquiring minds want to know what the heck is it?”

— Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) Aero Bureau Instagram, November 21, 2020

November 23, 2020 Albuquerque, New Mexico – In the morning of Saturday, November 21, 2020, biologists and officers from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) were in a Utah Dept. of Public Safety (DPS) helicopter counting bighorn sheep from the air in southern Utah. Pilot Bret Hutchings told a KSL-TV reporter in Salt Lake City that one of the biologists yelled out to turn the helicopter because he saw what looked like a large, metallic monolith down in the wild rocks.

The crew thought of the famous 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey by legendary director Stanley Kubrick that centered around a large, perfectly machined monolith to have been made by an unseen extraterrestrial species. Throughout the film, the mysterious monolith shows up periodically in key times and places in the evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens, beginning in Africa four million years ago, after already-evolving primates were manipulated genetically by the unseen extraterrestrials to evolve into increasingly intelligent humanoids.

Original frame from 1968 science fiction epic film by famed director Stanley Kubrick entitled "2001: A Space Odyssey." The story centers around a large, perfectly machined monolith presumed to have been made by an unseen extraterrestrial species. Multiple versions of the monolith were placed periodically in key times and places in the evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens, beginning in Africa after already-evolving primates were manipulated genetically to become humanity. Image source Wikipedia. — **Original frame from 1968 science fiction film by famed director Stanley Kubrick entitled *2001: A Space Odyssey.* Image source Wikipedia.**

Early in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the monolith is discovered in an African plain where tribes of hominoids fight over water sources and meager vegetation for sustenance. Later in the film, the monolith is discovered within a crater 40 feet beneath the surface of the Moon.

TMA-1 (or Tycho Magnetic Anomaly) was the fictional monolith in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” It was an upright black slab, excavated from the Tycho Crater in the Moon

**The dimensions of the ‘2001’ monolith are the squares of the first three integers, implying an understanding of mathematics by the aliens who placed it there.**

Pilot Bret Hutchings told KSL-TV he did not know if it might be a construction from NASA or someone’s work of art: “I’d say it’s probably between 10 and 12 feet high” and made out of metal. “We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then I guess the rest of us make a run for it.” Because DPS and the biologists did not want people trekking to the region where they are trying to protect the bighorn sheep, authorities are keeping the exact site secret.

DPS Aero Bureau released this Instagram image with the caption: “Inquiring minds want to know what the heck is it?”