Mystery Utah monolith torn down as just 鈥榯rash鈥
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The mysterious metal column found standing inexplicably in a remote part of US state Utah鈥檚 desert last month was knocked down and dismantled by a group of men who considered it 鈥渢rash,鈥 according to a photographer who documented the object鈥檚 destruction.
As images of the object gleaming amid dusty red rocks spread online, many noted a vague resemblance to the so-called 鈥渕onolith鈥 in Stanley Kubrick鈥檚 1968 film 鈥2001: A Space Odyssey,鈥 prompting strained jokes about a possibly extraterrestrial origin.
But photographer Ross Bernards posted images to Instagram on Monday of what he said were the object鈥檚 final moments that show there is nothing especially alien about the sculpture: it appeared to be sheets of metal riveted to a hollow wooden scaffold.
In a caption accompanying a series of pictures of the object, Bernards described driving six hours on Friday with three friends to take some evocative pictures of the object by moonlight.
After getting some shots, he said he heard some voices coming up the canyon, and four men appeared. Bernards wrote that he stepped away so the new group could also enjoy some time alone with the object, only to watch as they began shoving it.
鈥淭hey gave a couple of pushes on the monolith and one of them said, 鈥榊ou better have got your pictures,鈥欌 Bernards wrote. 鈥淗e then gave it a big push, and it went over, leaning to one side. He yelled back to his other friends that they didn鈥檛 need the tools. The other guy with him at the monolith then said 鈥榯his is why you don鈥檛 leave trash in the desert.鈥欌
The object soon fell with a loud bang, and the men made quick work of breaking it apart and carting it off in wheelbarrows.
鈥淟eave no trace,鈥 one of the men said.
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