Helicopter Pilot Finds Strange Monolith In Remote Part Of Utah

Summary

November 23, 2020: While counting wild bighorn sheep populations from a helicopter, two government employees discovered a strange metal monolith in a remote part of Utah (United States). Thus far, it is is not known who made it or put it there, or what purpose it serves. The monolith protrudes more than 10 feet (3 meters+) out of the ground it is planted in, and is shaped like a triangular prism about 2 feet wide. It has a smooth finish and shows minimal signs of weathering. The location is a remote rocky gulch, and there are no tracks or other immediate signs of how such a large and heavy object was placed in the earth.

Update/Further Development: Mysterious Metal Monolith In Utah Desert Suddenly Vanishes

Source

Bibliography

1. Guardian article

2. HuffPost article

Game and Story Use

• Mysterious Alien artifact with shades of the movie 2001?
  • Could break apart into (or house) Von Neumann Probes.
  • May have an artificial intelligence that is monitoring the earthlings.
  • Or, you know, space babies, and monkeys learning to make war, and HAL 9000, and all that Kubrickian stuff.
• Secret antennae for HAARP or some other electromagnetic field imaging/surveillance system?
  • What government agency (or government conspiracy) built this in the middle of nowhere?
• Attempt to manipulate the Feng Shui or leyline energy of the American west?
  • Perhaps put there by a stone-flying wizard, who has branched out into metal (or is using elemental magic via a five elements system that includes metal as a category).
  • Or could be an innocent work of art that isn't meant to be disrupting American's Chi like it is.
• Could have drifted into our reality from the Dreamlands? I mean, the guys who found it were counting sheep.
  • Lucky they didn't fall asleep at the stick and crash.
• The articles have some decent photos of the site and the object, so be sure to grab those to show your players when the PCs get there.