A mysterious UFO-like monolith was discovered at the summit of a Welsh hill by two locals
The monolith was discovered by Craig Muir as he went on a hike Tuesday morning (Image: Craig Muir / Storyful)
A hiker said he discovered a mysterious steel monolith that looks “some sort of a UFO” at the summit of a Welsh hill.
Craig Muir, a builder in his 30s, stumbled upon the approximately 10-foot-tall monolith while hiking up Hay Bluff near Hay-on-Wye on Tuesday morning, according to local reports.
As he recorded the video showing the structure, Muir says: “I come up here most days and I’ve never seen this before.
“It almost looks like a UFO.”
He then turns the camera around to show the monolith standing firm even when heavy winds came.
He told the Press Association he was “taken aback” when he spotted it and thought it could have been dropped off by a helicopter.
Muir said he thought the monolith “looked like some sort of a UFO.” (Image: Craig Muir / Press Association)
He said: “It was hollow and I imagine pretty light. Light enough for two people to carry it up and plant it in the ground.”
This not the first time a peculiar looking monolith was discovered.
Similar structures have been found in the United States and other European countries and islands such as Romania, Belgium and the Isle of Wight.
A New Mexico artist collective named “The Most Famous Artist” implied they are responsible for the monolith’s creation, but it remains unclear as to who exactly placed them.
“I’m here to say: I didn’t do the monolith, but I didn’t not do the monolith,” the collective’s founder and artist Matty Mo, said in in a podcast livestreamed to Instagram in December 2020, a month after the first monolith was discovered.
“I am both the originator and the guy who is just capitalizing on it as a result of the artifacts that were created to seed the story which propagated the myth,” she added.