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After that of the United States, an ephemeral metal monolith shakes Romania

2020-12-02T06:00:12.915Z


Viral advertising campaign or artistic operation, the “mystery” of these appearances is attracting more and more comments around the world.


A metal monolith appeared on a hill in Romania before vanishing into thin air, social media amused by the mystery surrounding this replica of an object recently discovered in a desert in the western United States.

Images of the four-meter-high pillar were first published last week by local media in the Neamt region in the northeast of the country.

Alerted Thursday by an email, the radio station Jurnal FM immediately went to the scene to check.

We were surprised, to say the least, to discover a metal structure covered with spiral patterns,

” explains the radio on its website.

Read also: United States: the mysterious metal monolith found in the desert has disappeared

Without the precedent of the US state of Utah, where a sparkling triangular prism was discovered in mid-November by local officials, the information would likely have gone unnoticed in the international press, said a radio reporter. Cirprian Solomon, interviewed Tuesday by AFP.

There are a lot of unanswered questions: why in Neamt?

Why now?

», He adds.

If the Romanian press took little interest in the matter, social networks gave it their all.

In a video posted on Facebook, a man quipped about what he described as a vulgar reproduction of the Utah monolith: "

In reality, it is only an old piece of junk that someone has put there

", can we hear him say.

"

We are not even able to make a proper replica

," Alexandru wrote, while others noted the obvious presence of solder marks.

As in Utah, "

the monolith disappeared on Monday, just as mysteriously as it had appeared,

" Jurnal FM said.

The discovery in the American desert had gone viral on the internet, with many noting similarities to the bizarre alien monoliths greatly accelerating humanity's progress in the sci-fi classic "

2001: A Space Odyssey

," a film by Stanley Kubrick and a novel by Arthur C. Clarke.

Source: lefigaro

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