Another mysterious monolith appears — this time in Colorado. Who could be behind it?
Another mysterious metal “monolith” popped up in the middle of nowhere, this time in Colorado, and it has residents pondering who — or what — might be behind it.
The mirrored structure of unknown origin emerged without warning on a hill overlooking the northern Colorado town of Bellvue, about an 8-mile drive northwest from Fort Collins, multiple outlets reported.
The hill is located on the property of Morning Fresh Dairy Farm, and customers have been stopping into the Howling Cow Cafe, the farm’s onsite coffee shop, seeking answers about the 8-foot tall, 4-foot wide, 8-inch deep structure, The Denver Post reported.
But owner Lori Graves doesn’t have answers for them, the outlet reported. She doesn’t know how it got there herself.
The structure has drawn a lot of interest and plenty of speculation, mostly of alien involvement, on social media.
“It’s huge and heavy. ... Considering where it is on the top of that hill that’s hard to climb up — you slip and slide a little and there are cactus all over — if anybody had an easy time getting it there it would be the aliens,” she told the outlet with a laugh.
The Colorado monolith appeared around the same time as another was spotted in the Nevada desert. Las Vegas police removed the structure on June 22 citing “public safety and environmental concerns,” McClatchy News previously reported.
The strange mirrored monoliths began appearing around the world in 2020, with 245 counted so far by a tracking website, McClatchy News reported from Forbes.
According to one Reddit user who posted photos of it, the structure is not otherworldly — it’s just a neighborly prank.
“I went to the alien structure, and asked around. Apparently the story is, one of the homeowners in the area believes in aliens, and conspiracies; so his neighbor decided to build one, and set it up on the hill, to mess with him,” they wrote. “Sadly nothing out of this world.”
Graves and her staff have embraced the curious new addition to the property by renaming specialty drinks with alien-inspired titles.
“Somebody came into the cafe and said ‘where’s the monolith? Where’s the alien monolith?’” she told Fox31 Denver. “We figured if these people are going to keep coming we may as well play with it. Make some kind of fun drinks.”
Graves told the station she walked up to it and found it towering higher than she could reach.
“I did knock on it and it didn’t take me anywhere,” she said with a laugh.
