The discovery of towering metal pillars in the British countryside continues to intrigue and baffle the public.
It all began back in 2020 but in recent days, new large, silver structures have popped up in various locations, sparking a rekindled interest in the strange formations, the Daily Mail reports.
Intrigue surrounded the latest reported sighting on Hay Bluff, a modest elevation near the small market town of Hay-on-Wye. Walkers stumbled upon yet another curious silvery pillar, reminiscent of several similar structures that have emerged across the nation and around the world.
Unexplained appearances have been documented at locales such as a Cornwall stone circle, Devon’s Dartmoor National Park, atop Somerset’s Glastonbury Tor, and resting on an Isle of Wight beach.
The chronology of these structures’ appearances has sown seeds of speculation about the intentions behind these installations and the identities of their architects. Popular speculation teases at an extra-terrestrial hand in these events, questioning if the monoliths signal a visitation from beyond our world.
The latest incident in Wales shares parallels with the cinematic monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s landmark film 2001: “A Space Odyssey,” yet it has maintained its enigma because no individuals or entities claim its construction.
Craig Muir, a local builder, happened upon one such 10-foot monolith. He described his initial reaction to it while out traipsing through the mud: “some sort of a UFO.” He said it’s impossible to drive to the top of the hill where the monolith was found, and speculated that either a group of people hauled it up there or it was dropped off by helicopter.
“It didn’t seem like it was chucked in there, instead it has been accurately put in the ground,” Mr. Muir told The Mail. “However, there were no obvious tracks around it and one would think that there would be a lot of mess around it, but there wasn’t.”
The Welsh pillar follows a global pattern with previous sightings in disparate parts of the world, including Romania and the Utah desert in the U.S.
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