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The Utah monolith probably wasn't the work of aliens, but it's still a mystery

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We asked a film scholar and astrophysicist who explores the potential for extraterrestrial life about who could’ve put this piece of art in the Utah desert and what it means.
Still, it’s a fittingly mystifying symbol in a year that’s often felt stranger than fiction. And while we may eventually learn more about the artwork’s origin, any piece of Kubrick-inspired art should leave some questions unanswered, said I.Q. Hunter, a film scholar and De Montfort University professor. “The Utah work is a slice of the future set in a prehistoric past, absolutely alien and incomprehensible in the landscape,” he told CNN. “It would be a pity if we discovered what the Utah sculpture was, as that would lessen its mystery.” We still don’t know. No artist has publicly claimed it, and when Utah officials stumbled upon it, it was unmarked. But we can safely assume the artist was not an alien — humans are clearly capable of building rectangular pieces of art, said Jason Wright, a professor of astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University and the director of the university’s Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center.

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