Mysteries remain unknown

In the middle of the desert was a giant, gleaming metal monolith, about 10 to 12 feet tall. Who, what, how, or why someone would put it there was a complete mystery. But it's sudden appearance in the middle of nowhere was only the beginning. Once images of the monolith began circling the web, a space odyssey, which also features a weird alien monolith, came rolling in. Whether the Utah monolith was put there by aliens to make us smarter remains to be seen. Though if it was, it hasn't worked. What was figured out, based on Google Earth imagery, was that the Utah monolith was installed sometime between August 2015 and October 2016, I don't know what's a bigger mystery.

However, 10 days after the strange object's discovery, onlookers hoping to see the alien artefact with their own eyes found that it had vanished. So, who removed it? Was it extra-terrestrial forces taking the thing back to their own galaxy? Fortunately, no. Instead, it was a group of men who scrapped the sculpture, led by sportsman Andy L. Lewis. The team's beef was due to the monolith attracting curious tourists, who were inadvertently damaging the landscape. Certainly a noble cause. That isn't the end of our monolithic mysteries, however.10 days later, on the 27th of November 2020, a similarly strange sculpture was found in Batca Doamnei, Romania, only to vanish overnight, days after its discovery. This was not the last sighting. Throughout 2020, 200 more monoliths appeared all over the world. It became such a sensation that on Christmas Day in San Francisco, locals woke up to find a monolith made of gingerbread looming over their city. For all the creative copycats though, it's still unknown exactly who erected the original Utah Monolith or why.

In 2020, the Pentagon authorised the release of several videos after they were leaked to the public. The footage dates back to 2007, when a member of Above Top Secret, a website dedicated to conspiracy theories, claimed to have worked on a US aircraft carrier and smuggled footage off the ship. The first incident took place in November 2004, off the coast of San Diego. Something was amiss on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier. A nearby missile cruiser, the USS Princeton, was picking up strange readings near San Clemente Island on its radar. These readings would appear and disappear and was nothing like the movement of planes. Things got weirder when two jets from the Nimitz went to see what the hubbub was all about. They reportedly came across a white, oval-shaped object, the same size as the jets, hovering above churning water. The floating phenomena was wingless, with no obvious means of propulsion, and looked like a giant tic-tac. When the jets came in to have a closer look, the object flew away at hypersonic speed: That's around 3,000 miles per hour, more than five times faster than the speed of sound. If the account is trustworthy, that's a heck of a story.

This isn't the only time the US military has tangoed with UFOs, though. In early 2015, off the coast of Florida, pilots from the USS Theodore Roosevelt were flying over the sea, when they recorded something they couldn't explain. The crew involved in this incident have chosen to remain anonymous, and the circumstances surrounding the video remain unknown. While we can only see one UFO here, the pilot's radar apparently detected a whole fleet of them. So, what are these things? Well, nobody knows. While the US government has found no evidence to show that alien technology was being used, they can't deny it either. Have you ever come across an amazing artefact, only for it to vanish without a trace? Let me know.