The Hague:
A mysterious metal monolith has appeared on a heath in the Netherlands immediately after related objects had been discovered in the United States, Romania and Britain, an official stated.
Hikers discovered the object on Sunday on private land close to the Kiekenberg nature reserve in northern Friesland province, a spokesman for the Dutch Forestry Commission stated.
“We know that it was probably placed this weekend because some hikers who were walking there found it, but we don’t know it got there,” forestry commission spokesman Imke Boerma told AFP.
Rangers went to verify out the object on Monday morning and had been nevertheless hunting for clues to its provenance.
A related-hunting structure appeared briefly in the Utah desert late final month, then two other people cropped up in southern California and Romania days later. Another appeared on a beach on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England on Sunday.
Photos in Dutch media showed the object in Friesland with a dull silver-coloured surface, standing subsequent to a marshy pool on frosty ground.
Local broadcaster Omrop Fryslan stated the Dutch object was not shiny like the other monoliths even though it was a related size and shape.
“I walked up to it, but there was nothing to be seen around the monolith. Just as if it was placed from above,” hiker Thijs de Jong, the very first particular person to discover the obelisk, told Omrop Fryslan, adding that it would “certainly have needed two or more people” to spot it.
The broadcaster stated there had been suspicions the obelisk could be a stunt by a ‘New Year’s Eve club”, a tradition in the north of the Netherlands to draw attention to a village or association.
But it quoted de Jong as saying that there was no such club in the area. “I myself am considering much more of a type of artist collective that does anything like that,” he stated.
The look of the Utah object in late November sparked wild rumours of alien visitations due to a resemblance to the black monolith in the Stanley Kubrick science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
An anonymous art collective has taken credit for the Utah installation but no one particular has claimed duty for these in Romania, the Isle of Wight and the Netherlands.
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