Showing posts with label Monoliths. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 23, 2024

The new Monoliths

The new Monoliths

The Federation of Light

Channel: Blossom Goodchild

Posted on June 23, 2024

 

 
Black = Federation of Light 
Gray = Blossom Goodchild


Hello! Hello! Well, no worries about what I’d like to talk about today! The new Monolith, that has appeared in Nevada, of course. Go! … Go! Go! Go! Go!

Greetings to you, Blossom and Each One attending this conversation, be it by word or sound. We can feel your excitement, Blossom, and this is most pleasing.

Well, it is exciting. In my mind, without having to search back, did you not say that there were five more to come, after the last one, in the sort of ‘soonish’ future! If that isn’t leaving things open, I don’t know what is!

This is correct, Blossom. The next one to ‘arrive’ is to be in yet, an even more obscure positioning. For no other reason than that is its designated placement, in order for it to align with the Grid markings that it is set within.

They do indeed ‘land’ in ‘out of nowhere’ places!

They, indeed, land ‘out of nowhere.’

Forgive me, I cannot remember if you have explained to us how they ‘land’ … would you mind going over it again?

These ‘tubes’ …

Tubes … are they tubes?

We choose to call them this for today’s purpose of explanation are ‘created’ Off World. Their integrity … their intelligence … their system … their conduct … making them what they are … is ‘captured’ in a program that can be condensed into the size of a dice.

Mm. This feels new info … maybe we haven’t discussed this before.

Yet, you understand that Energy is not something that can remain still. It has to BE moving. All that is Life is Energy … it has to Flow. Therefore, Energy can be manipulated into any size or shape that is desired. Yet, in this case … we would say ‘that is useful.’

So, I feel you are about to say that this dice could be ‘dropped’ on to the Planet and from the place it was created, buttons can be pressed and ‘poof’ … a full-size monolith blows up like an inflatable castle! This is in layman’s terms of course.

This is more or less correct … yet, certainly will suffice.

It is not a button though, is it? What is it?

It is a device that is activated involving it being placed on a particular crystal formation.

How does it communicate with the dice?

The dice … is already programmed to connect and communicate with the device. This is not new technology when you think of how much similarity this presents in devices already present upon your Planet that communicate with each other.

Can I also pick up on me saying it is ‘dropped’. Clearly, one doesn’t simply open the hatch on a ship and one wishes it luck as you wave it goodbye?

Indeed, Blossom, it is more ‘precisely directed’ as to its ‘landing pad’, would we say.

It is programmed to do so via teleportation.

Keep in mind … we are speaking to you as if this is an everyday run of the mill procedure. This is not so.

The delicacy of these pillars plays a huge role in how they are handled.

They are considered of High intelligence and High importance.

Just inquiring … are they constructed to their original size? I.E. Are they originally made to the size in which we see them on Earth.

This is correct.

You are putting into my mind the movie ‘Honey, I shrunk the kids’.

For obvious reasons.

So … and here’s an out-there question. IF … they were to open up … what would be seen inside?

Particles!

What! No mother board or levers and flashing red and green Lights? No little blue people awaiting to be awakened and set to work? No 1812 overtures? No fireworks? Just particles?! Well, I never. So, now if we may, we need to talk about these particles.

Particles of Energy that remain, not dormant, yet, almost to the point of sleep … that await their DIVINE MOMENT of activation, that we have spoken about in the past.

These particles ‘speak’ to each other, and to those particles in other such Monolith’s that have arrived and lie in wait.

Have I heard that the ones here from earlier have been removed?

Some … not all. Do you recall us showing you an image of them being in an enclosed sealed room and yet, unable to be dissected? For want of a better term.

Their blueprint remains in their situated original landing hold.

Could it not be that those who work in the Monolith department ‘off-world’, could use the same device to shrink them again, and get Scotty to beam them up?

This is not necessary.

They are perfectly safe where they are … and …

And this is a big ‘and’ … I can feel it …

They were not designed to do so.

So, you mean they cannot be shrunk once they have expanded to their full size.

Correct.

Why?

It is not needed. They are safe where they are, for they cannot be penetrated and they have no purpose ‘back on board’.

Can I just clarify if memory serves … that you who choose to be known as THE FEDERATION OF LIGHT … THE OVERSEERS OF THE OVERSEERS … do not reside on a ship … you just reside in a level of Vibration out there … somewhere.

Correct again, Blossom. We like your play on words in order to keep it simple.

Yet … you can manifest a ship should it be appropriate for you to say ‘visit’ and then, you would also take form that is fitting for that particular situation or circumstance?

Indeed.

I just wanted to make it clear that it is not you … or, perhaps, not ‘your department’ that is involved in the creation of that which we speak. A thought … if Energy can be manipulated … what is it that would prevent the Monoliths from suddenly disappearing?

Curiosity.

Eh … please explain.

They create much curiosity as they stand.

The mystery is evoking unawakened possibilities to become possible.

For whom?

ALL.

Are they not seeming to match that of images that are already present in certain movies? Movies that are futuristic?

I believe so.

So along with their many purposes which we have spoken of before … they are assisting souls to recognise the future that is coming. That which many signed up to attend.

I Love that. The fact that we signed up to attend the future!( Another t shirt Joe! ) I guess that is what is so exciting about them. Here they are … in our reality and they are so ‘futuristic’ to us … which, as you say … helps us to know that it is actually happening.

What is actually happening, Blossom?

The future.  That which you have spoken to us about. That which is to bring the new and HONEST world into fruition. The one that we are all here to manifest. I Love it. It fills one’s Being with such encouragement.

The reason you are feeing so encouraged and of Joy regarding this matter at hand, Blossom, is because your Soul is recognising it as Truth.

YOU ARE REMEMBERING.

This is why the Monoliths are so intriguing … they trigger ‘Memories of your future.’

An interesting concept … ‘Memories of our future.’

Not really, Blossom. For you have been shown it  … in a past that is the present … and lived it in a future that will one day be the past …

Hold the phone a minute  … let me digest that little gem. So, I assume we were shown it before we came back down to Earth … the past …. shown it as in a presentation of the future that we are now in … the present …  and then … it will be in the past because one day it will have happened.  Plus the fact, everything is happening at once! Nope … not ready to go down that rabbit hole today … that ‘everything is happening at once’ stuff always blows my brains out.

Yet, you are everything … all at once.

Apparently so! I accept it … yet … well, you know …  it is difficult to get one’s head around …

From where your perspective is at this space in your current supposed reality.

Of course. Guys … I feel this is a good space to finish todays chat. Loved it.

As we always do.  We LOVE all that derives from these conversations, and we Love too, how they spark the Soul’s interest … creating many new pathways to explore.

Indeed. WOW … There we go. In Gratitude. In Loving Service. I AM!

PS. Apparently the Monolith has now been removed.

Blossom Goodchild
 
 
 

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Backgrounder on the Ring of Fire, Wave of Love

Backgrounder on the Ring of Fire, Wave of Love

By Steve Beckow

 Posted on June 22, 2024


As we can see, the monoliths figure prominently in the Ring of Fire/Wave of Love.

That being the case, let’s look at what the Federation of Light had to say in Blossom’s April 20, 2018 reading with them on the Ring of Fire.


Blossom Goodchild: Hi, once again. Returning to the subject of The Event (Should I be so bold!) Folk are asking how long the ‘feeling’ of this WAVE OF LOVE will stay with us? Seconds? Hours? Days? Months? You get the picture.

Federation of Light: Welcome to you. This is a question that cannot be answered in terms of time. For it shall be different for each one. Firstly, we would comment that THE WAVE OF LOVE IS PART OF YOU. The Energy that The Event shall bring forth is one of such magnitude … this is agreed throughout … and yet, it is coming to awaken ALL THAT IS LOVE … WITHIN YOU. All that … IS … WITHIN YOU … IS LOVE.

At the moment the ‘wave’ presents itself … absolute Bliss shall be felt. Again, we say … different levels of it … depending on each one’s present state of Being. This applies also, to the length of time that the very HIGH VIBRATION shall remain within. Depending on the capabilities of the individual soul, that enables one to remain within a certain state, for a certain length of time. It shall affect souls differently. So, it is not easy for us to give a stated ‘time frame’. What we will say … is that … WHEN it approaches … you will KNOW and you will ‘automatically’ begin to ‘Prepare your Being’. It will be something you simply know what to do.

The ‘preperational systems’ shall be put into place in advance and activated at the correct level when all is in alignment to do so.

What would these preperational systems entail?

There shall be tell-tale signs, as we have already explained. I.E. Much more notable phenomena that has everyone buzzing, as opposed to just those who are seeking it out. Yet, as the dawning of this new era draws ever closer, there shall be much greater activity in your skies and from all around.

It shall not be JUST an external preparation. Let us make that quite clear. For internally, within those who are ready to accept … there shall be presented to the soul-self, visuals of expectations and possibilities.

What about those who are not ready to accept?

There shall be those who are not ready … yet, shall become aware and therefore, accept … an awakening … due to the Energy build up that will be taking place. This Energy shall be almost tangible. Far greater, would we say, than the turmoil within self, one is experiencing in these present days. We are not saying ‘far greater turmoil’! No! No! We are saying that the Energies shall be greater by far, and yet, turmoil will have left and comfort shall be discovered within the self. As it flows in, many souls will feel the newness and allow themselves to become themselves.

Those who do not choose to ‘accept’ what is taking place … shall still feel differently, one cannot not. Yet, they will deny that which is presented.

Why on Earth would someone do that? Surely, we are all ‘veritably dribbling’ to live in a world that is of a Higher Energy than this current state of affairs!

We understand your confusion, Blossom. And yet, each aspect of a soul’s journey upon your Earth plane has choice. Some are not ready to take steps to further their education! They choose to remain ‘stuck’ for a while longer to experience their choices within certain Energies.

This doesn’t sound a very wise move.

Blossom … within every breath you intake there lies wisdom. Remember, this is a never ending journey of the soul. It matters not, that which another chooses and should it completely go against the grain of YOUR choices … then simply allow that to Be.

When your soul is in a place of recognition of ALL … then such choices of another’s journey will seem so suitable to them.

So, back to the matter in hand. How long will the ‘wave’ last?

Initially, we would say two or three days. Yet, that confuses you, as we are not ‘in time’ and therefore, your TRUSTING on our time scale does not exist!

Laugh! How can you put it in a different way then? Not really possible without involving time!

All things are possible. Let us remove time from the equation and say this …

When IT arrives … there shall be an initial ‘wash over.’ It shall remain within each one, on different levels, of different degrees of frequency according to each one’s position of self. This we have also mentioned before. However, once this has taken place … each soul shall ‘come back round’ in their own time. So, we cannot give you hours, days etc. Yet, we choose to say … anything up to a week of your time before one feels the need to even think about normality.

And normality will not be normal ever again!

Our point to you is this.

THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AND IT IS DRAWING EVER CLOSER.

It is part of the Divine plan and destined to move your Planet into the positioning, for it to continue on its guided path of Light, back into her Higher Vibration of self. WITH YOUR HELP.

After THE EVENT … life will not be the same. For one’s perspective … of/upon … LIFE … will have changed.

You know now … that you are pure LOVE. Yet, within the density of your Planet’s Energies, it appears to be very difficult to keep on top of this knowledge. Yet, AFTER THE EVENT the Energies ‘en masse’ will have changed and transformed to such a degree, that much of that which one once knew, will indeed be of the past … in the ‘old world’ … would we say.

Everything will be the same and yet, nothing will be the same. For YOU … will have changed … INSIDE OF YOU will have risen to such a level, that YOU will experience everything differently. For you will be coming from a different perspective.

This indeed, Dearest Souls … is when so many of you will feel comfortable in your skin. Comfortable with residing upon the Planet … knowing what it is that you are to do. Knowing why you are here and finding synchronicities coming to you that will astound.

Those who are already on track and yet, have felt so alone … shall no longer do so. For soul, after soul, after soul shall seek you out and ask for your assistance.

Those of you who are already aware and ready to ‘teach’ and ‘remind’, shall be sought out by those who once thought of you, as you would say … a bit ‘cuckoo’!

Laugh again! How your humour has developed.

Or maybe, we are using yours?

Maybe!

The Awakened ones shall be as magnets … beacons … yet, we are aware of repeating ourselves.

That’s ok. I have had many a knock at you for doing so in the past. Yet, realising now, that many more souls are discovering your wisdom as we continue on and for those of us who have heard it all before … repetition is the mother of all learning, is it not?

We are in the knowing that this is so.

Dearest souls, in moments of silence within … breathe deeply and FEEL the difference within you. FEEL the KNOWING that you are so close.

YOU CAN FEEL THIS DIFFERENCE WITHIN YOU. WE KNOW YOU CAN.

Out of interest … how do you know?

Due to the strengthening of the ENERGY upon Earth. The Heightened level of it … coming from souls … emanating from within to without … and yet, there is also, on a completely different level … the ‘Home visits’ that you make during times of sleep or meditation, that see you return there on a much more recognisable level.

Okeydokey! Let’s get into that, shall we? Surely, when we do have these visits, which we are mostly, if not altogether unaware of in our human form … we ‘arrive there’ in our LIGHT form. So, how would we be more recognisable now, in comparison to before?

Because your LOVE LIGHT ‘returns’ NOW, in a more KNOWLEDGEABLE APPRECIATION OF SELF. Whereas perhaps, ‘before’, one may arrive a little … depleted /dishevelled … and in definite need of a ‘top up’.

White Cloud has spoken before of needing to return to Higher realms now and then, in order to FEEL his TRUE BEING in the Vibration that it belongs. For Being in lesser Light than the Truth of the self can indeed, like a battery running low on a torch … deplete the strength in which it shines.

Yet, now … as each one is remembering their TRUE LIGHT … the Light that they are in the Highest aspect of themselves … they are able to bring into their Being a Higher level of self … when BEING and residing in the Energies of the Earth plane.

This is a great accomplishment. For it shows that the anchoring of Light that so many of you are assisting in … just by being there … is taking hold and this is very encouraging indeed.

Do you see brothers and sisters … of/in Light … the difference? Can you grasp that which you are accomplishing? Can you accept NOW that YOU … YOU … are making this change occur?

Within every moment of your time upon Mother Earth, you are changing it. Because, you are in acceptance NOW, of what is taking place and recognising that YOU are a vast part of this that is taking place.

May we remind you, the ocean would not be the ocean if there were not every single drop of water to make it so.

The excitement builds and we ask you to do your utmost to keep that level of KNOWING at its Highest point.

For you DO KNOW that this EVENT shall take place and as for its ‘timing’ … it really … with the greatest of understanding and respect … is not the point!

The making it happen … the bringing it to you … is what it is all about.

THE ABSOLUTE KNOWING THAT YOU ARE HERE TO DO THAT shall allow you to continue forth. Bringing in the Higher levels of Energy Light-Love and in doing so, allowing yourselves to be the perfect examples OF this Love.

As more and more souls take note of the ways of Joyful hearts that shine from within you … that KNOW … then, more and more desire to become the same. More and more are looking for souls like YOU, to be shown the right path … to be guided in the ways of LOVE and through this … due to this … because of this … because of YOU … KNOWING THE LOVE THAT YOU ARE …

THIS EVENT shall be drawn towards you … as the Lights on your Planet shine ever Brighter … calling its name … letting it know …

IT IS TIME.

Thanks chaps! Always a pleasure.

Always.

Steve Beckow


The Monoliths are in the news again.

The Monoliths:

Works of Art or Vital Elements in the Planetary Heart Opening?

By Steve Beckow

 Posted on June 21, 2024



The Monoliths are in the news again.

Possibly the deep state wants to bring some “mystical” things back into public focus to create the mood for Project Bluebeam. (1)

The big names in mass media are representing them as art pieces. If one doesn’t believe in extraterrestrial civilizations, or wants to keep the public in the dark, art pieces is a good cover story.

But, if you listen to channeled sources, the monoliths are here to help with the Ring of Fire, Wave of Love, solar flare, or, what the Divine Mother has called, the “planetary heart opening.” (2)

I think that’ll happen at the end of the ten days of broadcasts (and I have a perfect prophecy record – zero percent).  (3) Our situation then will be similar to my situation at Xenia in 2018, after I’d watched and listened to parts of Frazzeldrip.  I needed a spiritual experience – a second fourth-chakra experience – to jackhammer me out of my dismay. (4)

Here too we may be needing the jackhammer of a planetary heart opening to rescue us as a planet from dismay.

The heart opening will introduce us to the love of the higher dimensions, which will answer all our questions.

Blossom’s Federation of Light first drew my attention to the monoliths.  The whole story of that is contained in a previous book. (5) Let me restrict myself here to their Dec. 5, 2020 explanation of what the monoliths are:

Blossom: Let’s … delve into the ‘Monolith mystery,’ if we may? Firstly, are you aware of them?

Federation of Light: Indeed, we are. …  They are monitors. They are receptors. They are activators. They are connectors. They are reflectors. … They are certainly not toys! They are of a material that may appear ‘Earthly’ yet it is not.

Are there only three?

No. Many. That shall be ‘placed’ and discovered at appropriate times. …

The one in Utah has been removed.

This is not of a concern. It is not ‘set’ so it cannot be ‘investigated.’

Was it removed by humans?

Yes, yet they will not be able to make heads or tails of it. It will seem to them an enigma … for it is dormant at this time. (6)

What I’d like to add here are the following later descriptions of how the monoliths function during the expected Ring of Fire, Wave of Love:

Blossom Goodchild: Can you tell us about the solar flash that carries the wave of love please?

Federation of Light: The actual ‘flash’ itself as it leaves the Sun … will trigger a few of … the main circuits /switchboards [of the monoliths]… which in turn will Energetically connect with all the others, for they are all … ready … in place. All ready and interconnected through their routes. (7)

Best of all, they add:

FoL: At the moment the ‘wave’ presents itself … absolute Bliss shall be felt. Again, we say … different levels of it … depending on each one’s present state of Being. (8)

They explain in more detail what the role of the monoliths is:

Blossom: What is their role? What happens when [activation of the monoliths] happens?

FoL: They are of much Power … beyond your comprehension, or anyone of Earth. When ‘ignited’, when ‘activated’ … and ‘at play/in play’ … their ENERGY will enable a huge Magnetic, Energetic, Electrical Wave … of both Sound and Movement.

B: Dare I ask about the ‘movement’ part?

FoL: Taking your beloved Planet through to a Higher Dimension.

B: That’s what I thought you were going to say.

FoL: This can only take place when ALL IS IN PLACE.

So, although we say the ‘structures’ are ‘set’ … they are not programmed for any particular date. They are programmed when all is in alignment.

B: So then, ‘The Event’ will only happen, i.e., the solar flash … whatever the whole shebang entails … when everything is in place, also?

FoL: Yes. We cannot begin to explain the enormity of this. It is imperative for Earthly strategies to be in place … along with certain Planetary/Star alignments … in order for EVERYTHING to come together in THIS DIVINE PLAN. In order for the END OF THE DARKNESS and the BEGINNING OF THE LIGHT WORLD to flow into position. As you can imagine, Blossom … the complexity of this Plan is far from a ‘walk in the park.’ (9)

“Taking your beloved Planet through to a Higher Dimension.” While there are a lot of channeled messages on the Ring of Fire/Wave of Love as a heart opening, I haven’t seen any that say it is Ascension itself. So I have to interpret this as meaning “a higher sub-dimension,” of which there are twelve in every dimension. There is no other evidence at this time for the interpretation that this event is Ascension.

If I’m wrong, hallelujah! Otherwise, as a heart opening, the experience will prove temporary but will change our lives forever – or until Ascension – by introducing us to that which makes all the higher dimensions into worlds that work for everyone – transformative, transfigurative, transdimensional love.

Footnotes

(1) See:

(2) A temporary fourth-chakra heart opening is not the same as the full and permanent heart opening that Ascension is. It’s a preview, but a life-changing preview.

Steve: Have you described a heart opening and, if you have…, is that what’s in store for us? …

Divine Mother: Is there a massive heart opening occurring on this planet? … I say, yes!  (“The Divine Mother Describes a Planetary Heart Opening,” May 5, 2021, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/05/05/320533/.)

(3) Or 100 percent, depending on how you look at it! I might add in my own defense that everyone has had a 0/100 percent prophecy record.

(4) The first fourth-chakra experience was the heart opening on March 13, 2015.  I wasn’t aware one could have two fourth-chakra events. Michael and I discussed the matter:

Steve: Was the sight of the self at the Xenia retreat a fourth-chakra event?

Archangel Michael: Yes, it was.

Steve: So it’s possible to have two fourth-chakra events or maybe even more possibly?

AAM: It is possible to have multiple chakra events throughout your lifetimes, sweet one. Again, what you are thinking of is a limitation. Something is activated or not activated. Think in terms of open, open, open, open, bigger, bigger, bigger. So yes, you might have several events. You should have several events! (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, June 12, 2019.)

On the first experience, see An Ascension Ethnography articles from March 13, 2015 onwards:  https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/An-Ascension-Ethnography-V1-R2.pdf

(5) See The Ring of Fire: A Planetary Heart Opening for Gaia at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-c5ntent/uploads/2023/12/Ring-of-Fire-Planetary-Heart-Opening-6.pdf

(6) “Federation of Light through Blossom Goodchild for Dec. 5, 2020,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/12/05/federation-of-light-through-blossom-goodchild-dec-5-2020/ (Hereafter FoL.)

(7) “FoL for July 13, 2021,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/07/13/the-federation-of-light-through-blossom-goodchild-july-13-2021/.

(8) “FoL for April 20, 2018,” April 21, 2018, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/04/21/the-federation-of-light-via-blossom-goodchild-april-20-2018/

(9) “FoL for March 21, 2021,” March 20, 2021, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/03/20/the-federation-of-light-through-blossom-goodchild-for-march-21-2021/.

Steve Beckow


Mysterious monoliths are appearing across the world. Here’s what we know.

Mysterious Monoliths are Appearing across the World

By Kathleen Mary Willis

Posted by Steve Beckow on June 22, 2023

Reflective rectangular metal structures rising vertically from natural surroundings.

Steve: See today’s accompanying article (below) on the nature and function of the monoliths.  Evidently they play a role in the Ring of Fire, also known as the Wave of Love, solar flare, Event, etc.

Mysterious monoliths are appearing across the world. Here’s what we know.

We don’t know where the mysterious monoliths come from. But we do know they’re art.

(https://www.vox.com/culture/22062796/monoliths-utah-california-romania)

Editor’s note, June 18, 2024: The monoliths are back! This article was originally published on December 4, 2020. A new monolith appeared in Nevada in June 2024.

Into the fiery, plague-ridden nightmare-scape of 2020, like a gift from some benevolent higher being, has come a source of true wonder and delight: the wandering monoliths of Utah, Romania, California, and New Mexico.

The monoliths are long vertical slabs of metal, each 10 to 12 feet tall. They appear with no warning and disappear just as quickly: First, one in the Utah desert, which emerged on November 18 and vanished on November 27. Second, one outside the Romanian city of Piatra Neamt, which appeared on November 27 and disappeared on December 2. Third, one at the top of Pine Mountain in Atascadero, California, which appeared on December 2, was taken down on December 3, and reappeared on December 4. And fourth, one in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which appeared on December 7 and was taken down the same day.

They look like alien artifacts. [Steve: In fact, they are.]  In part, that’s because they are heavily reminiscent of the monoliths of Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, where vast black monoliths are deposited by aliens to guide human beings from one stage of evolution to the next.

Kubrick or no Kubrick, all four of these real-life monoliths are eerie, solitary objects. No one knows whether another will suddenly appear, or whether it, too, will vanish into the night.

We know very little about these monoliths at all, in fact, and that seems to be part of their point. They are a beautifully inexplicable phenomenon, and proof that the world still contains marvels.

Here’s what we do know about the monoliths — and why we keep talking about them.

A monolith timeline

Reflective rectangular metal structures rising vertically from natural surroundings.

From left: The California monolith, the Utah monolith, and the Romanian monolith. Luke Phillips/Twitter; Utah Department of Public Safety; Andrei Carabelea/Facebook

The first monolith was discovered in November in a remote desert canyon in Utah’s Red Rock Country. A helicopter crew counting bighorn sheep noticed a flash of metal looming up from the ground and flew down to investigate, and there it was: deeply embedded in the red rock of the canyon floor, an enormous smooth metal triangular prism, just standing there.

“What the heck is that?” one of the workers mutters in a video released by the Utah Department of Public Safety. “Okay, the intrepid explorers go down to investigate the alien life form,” another cracks.

The canyon is remote and inaccessible without a helicopter, Utah’s Division of Wildlife Services told the New York Times. “It’s a tough place to get to on vehicle and on foot,” a spokesperson said. Officials for the Department of Public Safety added that they had no idea how long the monolith had been there, although Reddit sleuths used Google Maps Earth View to work out that it was installed sometime between August 2015 and October 2016.

The Utah Department of Public Safety announced the “unusual find” on Facebook, with a cheeky alien emoji appended, and the story took off inexorably from there. A mysterious artifact that is an art project but also maybe from aliens, discovered out of nowhere in the middle of the desert, here in the grinding misery of a plague year — what’s not to love about that?

Plenty, argued BASE jumper Andy Lewis and adventure guide Sylvan Christensen, who filmed themselves removing the monolith from the desert on November 27. They say they did so for environmental reasons. “This land wasn’t physically prepared for the population shift,” they declared in a joint statement. The statement goes on to say that the rapid descent of masses of monolith-gawkers into the pristine desert landscape, with no infrastructure set up to support them, caused permanent damage to the delicate ecosystem.

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“Let’s be clear: The dismantling of the Utah Monolith is tragic — and if you think we’re proud— we’re not,” they wrote. “We’re disappointed. Furthermore, we were too late.”

But the very day the Utah monolith would disappear, a new monolith surfaced. On November 27, Romanian newspapers reported finding another monolith outside the city of Piatra Neamt, on the plateau of Bâtca Doamnei, near an archaeological site.

Like the Utah monolith, the Romanian monolith is a vast triangular prism, 10 to 12 feet tall. But where the Utah monolith had a flat, reflective surface, the Romanian monolith is covered in looping lines, and there’s a welded seam near its base.

 

In a statement published to Facebook, Piatra Neamt Mayor Andrei Carabelea quipped, “My guess is that some alien, cheeky and terrible teenagers left home with their parents’ UFO and started planting metal monoliths around the world. First in Utah and then at Piatra Neamt. I am honored that they chose our city.” (The English translation is courtesy of the Independent.)

But unlike Lewis and Christensen, Carabelea did not seem to harbor any worries about what monolith-based tourism would do to the natural landscape of the area. On the contrary; he said he hopes the monolith will attract more tourists.

But four days after it arrived, the Romanian monolith vanished overnight. Its disappearance so far remains a mystery.

And on the same day the Romanian monolith vanished, a new monolith appeared in California, at the top of a mountain off a hiking path. According to local news reports, the California monolith is another triangular prism, 10 feet tall and about 18 inches wide: around the same height as the Utah and Romanian monoliths, but a little narrower. Like the Utah monolith, it has a smooth surface. It appears to be made out of stainless steel. Unlike the Utah monolith, it hasn’t been embedded into the ground. A hard push could topple it over.


On December 3, it got that push. A group of young men who apparently drove five hours to San Luis Obispo County livestreamed themselves destroying the monolith on the blockchain site DLive. Dressed in camo gear, night-vision goggles, and Trump paraphernalia, the group chanted “America First” and “Christ is king” as they rocked the monolith back and forth.

“Christ is king in this country. We don’t want illegal aliens from Mexico or outer space,” a man in the video says. “So let’s tear this bitch down.”

Once they’d brought the monolith to the ground, they put up a wooden cross in its place, and then dragged the monolith down the mountain. “It was fine, because it was funny,” a man says toward the end of the stream.

On December 4, the California monolith returned.

Unlike the Utah and Romania monoliths, we do actually know who is responsible for the California monolith. It was built by Atascadero residents Travis Kenney, his father Randall Kenney, Wade McKenzie, and Jared Riddle. They’re local metal artists, and they were inspired by the appearance of the two other monoliths. Figuring that there are three monoliths in 2001: A Space Odyssey, they decided to complete the trilogy themselves. And after it was torn down, they decided to bring it back.

“It was meant to be something fun, a change of pace from the kind of conversations 2020 has been plagued with — so much negativity and separation among the people in our country,” Travis Kenney said in a statement.

On December 7, a fourth monolith appeared in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this time in the parking lot of an REI. And on the same day, it, too, was torn down. In videos circulating social media, a group of people can be seen bearing it to the ground, and witnesses say that before that, they were beating it with sledgehammers.

There are a lot of theories about the monoliths. Here are the big ones.

A man in a black suit and cowboy hat stands above another man lying on the ground. They are surrounded by a rocky, desert canyon landscape.

HBO’s Westworld shoots on a desert landscape remarkably similar to the landscape where the Utah monolith was found.

So where are all these monoliths coming from?

They don’t seem to be coming from the same source. It now seems apparent that the Utah monolith was the work of one person, and the monoliths that have followed are copycats from people like Travis Kenney, following in its example.

Are they some sort of cynical guerrilla ad campaign? Considering that the Utah monolith dates back to 2015, that seems unlikely: It would be a hell of a slow burn of a marketing push.

One popular theory notes that the Utah monolith site is close to some of the 2015 shooting locations for the HBO drama Westworld, and suggests that it might be a leftover prop, or a prank by a member of the Westworld crew.

Another theory suggests that the monoliths are an anonymous art installation, with the Utah monolith created by one original artist and then a series of copycats following.

And in that case, the most pressing question becomes: Who is the artist?

The prankster art collective The Most Famous Artist has taken credit for both the Utah and California monoliths on social media. The group is even offering an “authentic alien monolith” for sale on its website for $45,000. But shortly after the Most Famous Artist made its claim, Travis Kenney and his group took credit for the California monolith, posting images of them constructing the monolith to social media to prove it was them. It’s still possible The Most Famous Artist was behind the Utah monolith, but this development casts severe doubt on its claim over the California one. (There’s still a monolith for sale on its website, though.)

A strong early contender for the original artist behind the Utah monolith was the minimalist sculptor John McCracken, who died in 2011. McCracken’s signature works were his “planks”: freestanding slabs of metal he would lean against a wall. McCracken himself used to say he believed his planks influenced the designer of the monoliths in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He believed in aliens, and he wanted his work to resemble alien artifacts. “Even before I did concerted studies of U.F.O.s,” he once said, “it helped me maintain my focus to think I was trying to do the kind of work that could have been brought here by a U.F.O.”

(Read more at https://www.vox.com/culture/22062796/monoliths-utah-california-romania.)