At a theme park for mountain bikers in New Zealand, the infamous mysterious shining monolith has emerged. It is the latest in a series of similar metal obelisks which, seemingly out of thin air, have appeared eerily around the world. Others bear unusual engravings.
On New Zealand’s South Island, Christchurch Adventure Park posted a photo of the monolith that appeared on Sunday in a grassy patch near its 1.8 km chair lift to social media in the Port Hills near Canterbury.
‘Does anyone know what this is or where it has come from? As we genuinely don’t….’ the park wrote.
The three-sided metal pillars are reminiscent of author Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction Space Odyssey series, in which three such monoliths are found around the solar system, created by extraterrestrials to facilitate intelligent life.
In recent weeks, identical structures, often with a sequence of coordinates leading to landmarks, have appeared around the world.
A monolith emerged at Seaford Train Bridge, Noarlunga, overnight in Adelaide, Australia on December 10.
Three separate coordinates had been etched into the Adelaide monolith. The top coordinate was the location of Trump Tower in New York, while the second location was the uninhabited island of Managaha in the Pacific Ocean, near Guam, in the Northern Mariana Islands.
The Sphinx in Egypt’s Al Giza Desert was named by the bottom coordinates.
It disappeared three days later, and three metal posts were left in place.
On December 9, in Poland, two other monoliths were spotted.
One was located on the banks of the Vistula River in Warsaw, the nation’s capital, while another was spotted in a former quarry in the southern city of Kielce.
At the top of Pine Mountain in Atascadero, California, another structure emerged. On November 18, the first shiny pillar was discovered by puzzled locals in southern Utah and news of the object soon went viral around the world.
Soon after the stainless steel, 10-foot monolith was found in a remote region of the Utah desert, conspiracy theories of speculating aliens circulated.
For a riveted metal pillar to appear, Christchurch Adventure Park seems a strangely less remote location.
The park is located on 358 hectares of privately owned land and features the longest chairlift in New Zealand, mountain bike paths, and the highest and longest ziplines in New Zealand.
Some spoke on social media about the artifact, while others suggested that it could be a park marketing campaign. Some called it ‘Brilliant’ while others poked fun at the obvious rivets.
The Most Popular Artist, an art group from Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A., has taken credit for at least some of the metal monoliths found worldwide.
The group sells them for $45,000, advertising them as ‘museum-quality materials,’ with a certificate of authenticity from the blockchain plastered on their website.
‘Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery, no refunds or exchanges,’ the group says in a distinctly un-mystical way.
It is not possible that the arrival of New Zealand is behind either aliens or the U.S.-based art group, though. Some claiming that a they saw the monolith being brought by a truck, but we have yet to have any solid proof on that.
Source: Daily Mail UK