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On Tuesday morning Craig Muir, a 39-year-old Welsh man, left his house for his daily walk in the hills around Hay-on-Wye, a small village in the Powys region of Wales, just outside the Brecon Beacons National Park . As he walked he noticed something evidently at odds with the moorland and muddy terrain of the area: a steel prism of about three meters stuck in the ground.
Except for a few footprints in the mud immediately around the structure, there were no signs of how it had been brought there: no marks left by the wheels of a truck, or ruts made in positioning it. To the New York Times Muir said it “looks like it was dropped from the sky” into an area he described as “in the middle of nowhere.”
Mystery steel monolith appears in Wales pic.twitter.com/INn7CfKCPV
— The Sun (@TheSun) March 12, 2024
Al Guardian Muir said the prism is well positioned and appears very solid, even resistant to the local weather which is often quite windy and adverse. The hill it sits on is called Hay Bluff and is right inside the Brecon Beacons national park, a protected area where there are very strict rules. It will likely be removed soon, Muir said.
Muir’s report attracted the attention of local and international media, as always happens in cases of bizarre findings. However, it is not the first time this has happened: during the pandemic there were various cases of similar objects appearing from one day to the next, as in a desert area of Utah, in California, Romania e Türkiye.
Although they often turn out to be artistic installations, in common and media language these objects are often referred to as “monoliths”, like the one that appears in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film that begins with a famous scene in which he is present a large and mysterious black prism.
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