A man hiking in Wales captured video of a strange structure on top of a hillside near the country’s border with England.
Craig Muir shared the discovery on Storyful, saying it “almost looks like a UFO,” Knewz.com has learned.
Instead, it turned out to be a monolith.
Muir saw the tall and shiny structure while hiking Hay Bluff near Hay-on-Wye.
“I come up here most days and I’ve never seen this before,” Muir says in the video.
Muir then showed video of the structure, which was standing sturdy despite strong winds that day.
“When I first saw it, I was a bit taken aback as it looked like some sort of a UFO,” Muir told the Press Association, according to Fox News.
“It didn’t seem like it was chucked in there, instead it has been accurately put in the ground,” he added. “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.”
Muir wasn’t the only one to notice the strange sight.
Richard Haynes was running in the area when he spotted the 10-foot-tall structure, according to The New York Post.
“I thought it looked a bit bizarre and might be a scientific media research thing collecting rainwater,” he told Wales Online on Monday, March 11.
“But then realized it was way too tall and strange for that. Then I went up to it and it was about 10-foot-tall at least and triangular, definitely stainless steel,” Haynes continued. “It was hollow, and I imagine pretty light. Light enough for two people to carry it up and plant it in the ground.”
Muir’s sighting of the monolith was similar to others that have happened recently.
Other monoliths were found in the United States, Belgium, Romania and the Isle of Wight, an island in the English Channel.
In November 2020, a monolith estimated to be 10 or 12 feet tall was discovered by a Utah state wildlife employee.
Bret Hutchings, a helicopter pilot, told Salt Lake City’s KSL-TV it was “about the strangest thing that I’ve come across out there in all my years of flying.”
The Wight monolith was discovered in 2020 by Tom Dunford, who told Sky News: “The person who put it there knows what they’re doing. It’s really reflective. It’s someone playing a practical joke, I don’t believe in any of these conspiracy theories.”
It’s unclear who placed the structures in their positions.
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