Monolith mystery continues: Latest sighting in south eastern Turkey

According to the Associated Press, the mystery structure was found by a farmer on February 5 at the UNESCO World Heritage site named Gobekli Tepe in Sanliurfa province.

Turkey’s ‘mysterious monolith’ at Gobeklitepe, an ancient temple in Turkey and a UNESCO World Heritage site, draws local attention pic.twitter.com/X1gkBUamh4

— Reuters (@Reuters) February 5, 2021

As per the report, the structure was 3 meters tall and was inscribed with an old Turkic script that reads “Look at the sky, see the moon.”

Take a look at how people reacted to the latest monolith:

this trend ended in December. People need to stop remaking it, they’re just beating a dead horse.

— biscooti cookie (@Abbykl1) February 6, 2021

This time, the aliens probably decided to have their stop at turkey 😅

— Eugene👣 (@eugene_dibo) February 6, 2021

It must be a world government initiative. 🤣😂🤣Give the people some hope. 🤣😂🤣

— temple of the disciple (@TempleDisciple) February 6, 2021

Awesome, let’s just mess up a 100,000 year old archeological site with our stunt

— Schuyler Summers (@SummersSchuyler) February 6, 2021

Turkey…the only place in earth where the army was send out to guard the monolith.

— KD (@Haydaddict) February 6, 2021

Another metal monolith appears, this time in Turkey. The message is almost complete.

— 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚎𝚜𝚘𝚗 – 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝 (@AustenMathieson) February 6, 2021

So there’s another monolith in Turkey… anyone want to explain the whole “Serve the Monolith” thing?

— HampshireOmen (@HampshireOmen) February 9, 2021

Alien Technology…. Monolith appears in Ancient Holy Temple Site in Turkey months after originals…@talkRADIO @Iromg https://t.co/uFaEdthj86

— OAK77uk (@OAK77uk) February 8, 2021

Over the weekend, a Kubrick-like monolith appeared near the world’s oldest (known) prehistoric temple, Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey.

Man’s sense of humor knows no bounds or borders. https://t.co/EEHv7IWsyu

— Annie Jacobsen (@AnnieJacobsen) February 8, 2021

Mysterious #monolith appears at world’s oldest temple in Turkey pic.twitter.com/6qJrgElQnQ

— Serkut Tosyalı (@srkttsyl) February 6, 2021

anyone else miss the crop circles we used to get back in the 90s? pic.twitter.com/4k1NYl7H4T

— kevin (@kevin10661) February 6, 2021

Monoliths started popping up around the world after first being spotted in a Utah desert on November, 10.

Monoliths have also appeared in the UK, Texas, Poland, Colombia and California. One was reported in India as well, at a park in Ahmedabad. A gingerbread monolith was spotted in San Francisco around Christmas, too.

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The metallic objects have been described as monoliths due to their similarity to the props used in Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the film, the appearance of the monoliths precedes the evolution of mankind.