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   TOPLINE The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced in a series   
   of tweets Friday it removed a mysterious monolith from a mountain range   
   north of the city, marking the latest monolith to pop up in the U.S. and   
   raise further questions about who or what is behind the appearances.   
      
   Las Vegas police said it helped with the removal of the monolith Thursday   
   afternoon, citing public safety and environmental concerns as the structure   
   was found near Gass Peak—a mountain peak about 20 miles north of Las Vegas   
   that is part of Nevada’s Desert National Wildlife Refuge.   
      
   Police photos of the three-sided, 6-foot-4 mirrored object show it was   
   placed into the ground using rebar and concrete, with authorities noting the   
   monolith was made out of reflective sheet metal folded into a triangle.   
      
   The monolith has been transported to an undisclosed location as authorities   
   figure out how to properly dispose of it, LVMPD tweeted, adding there is no   
   investigation into the monolith or how it appeared near Gass Peak.   
      
   The Las Vegas monolith’s dimensions are smaller than a monolith that was   
   spotted in Wales more than three months ago, as that structure measured 10   
   feet tall.   
      
   It is possible the monolith has been in the mountain range for years, as   
   Monolith Tracker, an unofficial website allowing users to report the strange   
   structures, says the Las Vegas object was first spotted in December 2020.   
      
   The tracking website links to a 2020 YouTube video showing aerial views of   
   what appears to be the same monolith confiscated by police Thursday.   
      
      
   BIG NUMBER   
   245. That’s how many monoliths the tracking site has identified since 2020,   
   though it is unclear how many of those objects have been verified by law   
   enforcement.   
      
   KEY BACKGROUND   
   The Las Vegas monolith is one object in a long line of strange, mirrored   
   structures that began appearing around the world since 2020. The first   
   notable monolith that captured viral attention was first spotted in Utah in   
   November 2020. That object was nearly 10 feet tall and was dismantled just   
   10 days after it was spotted. One of the most recent monolith sightings this   
   year came in March, when Welsh builder Craig Muir discovered a monolith   
   while on a hike. The monolith was located on a muddy hill inaccessible to   
   cars, which provoked Muir to believe the object was placed by people or a   
   helicopter. Online speculation has theorized that aliens, pranksters or   
   artists are behind the objects. The Most Famous Artist, a conceptual art   
   group, has taken credit for monoliths that appeared in the U.K., Romania and   
   Utah, though followers of the monolith phenomena believe the group is   
   capitalizing off the interest around monolith appearances. The collective   
   once sold $45,000 “authentic” alien monoliths on its website.   
      
   FURTHER READING   
   10-Foot-Tall Monolith Appears In Wales—What We Know About The Mysterious   
   Object (Forbes)   
      
   An artist collective says it is selling monoliths for $45,000, causing   
   speculation that it created the bizarre phenomenon (Business Insider)   
      
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