SEE IT: Helicopter pilot finds mysterious metal monolith in Utah
The Utah Department of Public Safety might have a message for ET.
Or Captain Kirk.
In a scene right out of “Star Trek” – complete with a narration in Kirk’s famous “Captain’s Log” style – a department helicopter flying over a remote stretch of southern Utah spotted a strange, otherworldy, metal monolith.
Landing on the Mars-colored surface to investigate, the team came away with more questions than answers.
It was all caught on camera, along with the investigation.
Posted on Twitter by photojournalist Andrew Adams, the images evoked inevitable comparisons to the opening scene in director Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi epic, “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
The @UtahDPS helicopter was assisting the @UtahDWR in counting bighorn sheep in remote southern Utah Wednesday when the crew encountered something entirely 'out of this world'...@KSL5TV #KSLTV #Utah
Photojournalist: @Photog_Steve5 pic.twitter.com/f8P0fayDIS— Andrew Adams (@AndrewAdamsKSL) November 21, 2020
“One of the biologists is the one who spotted it, and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it,” pilot Bret Hutchings told KSL-TV. “He was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!’ And I was like, ‘what.’ And he’s like, ‘There’s this thing back there – we’ve got to go look at it!’ "
It was tucked in a red rock cove, planted firmly in the ground, reported KSL.
Explanations abounded from commenters on a Facebook post from the Utah Highway Patrol, from “hand sanitizer for the sheep” to “part of the plane from ‘Lost.’ "
“That’s been about the strangest thing that I’ve come across out there in all my years of flying,” Hutchings told KSL.
