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Finding the mystery monolith

When a helicopter survey of wild bighorn sheep stumbled on a mysterious metal monolith in Utah, a photograph of the find quickly went viral (see p4). The Utah Department of Public Safety kept the location secret, not because they were hiding alien technology, but because they feared an influx of curious visitors badly prepared for the hostile landscape. This would inevitably lead to a spike in calls for rescue and perhaps injury or death.

However, the precise spot was revealed on the Internet almost immediately. Was

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