A mysterious monolith that baffled Las Vegas police has been torn down over “environmental concerns.”
Police said members of a volunteer search and rescue team I found it near Gass Peak. at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada.
It was unclear where it had come from and officers were hoping for help on social media.
In an update on Friday, they revealed that they had “helped” remove the item “due to environmental and public safety concerns.”
The reflected object is six feet, five inches tall and just over a foot wide, they added.
“It was made of reflective sheet metal folded into a triangle and secured with rebar and concrete,” police said.
It is being kept at an “undisclosed location” while officials decide how to store or dispose of it.
“It is still unknown how the object arrived at its location or who could be responsible.
“At this time there is no LVMPD (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) investigation into the object or the circumstances surrounding its existence.”
It was quickly removed after being illegally installed on federal land managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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The sighting follows a series of cases of mysterious glowing plumes that have appeared around the world since at least 2020.
In November of that year, a roughly 12-foot metal monolith similar to the one seen in Las Vegas was discovered deep in the Utah desert.
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It was in such a remote area that officials did not immediately reveal its location for fear that people would get lost or stranded while trying to find it.
was followed by sightings in Romania, central California, and on the famous Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
In March of this year, a 10-foot monolith appeared in a hillside in south east wales.
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