Mormon Church Investigates Desert Monolith

By O. Lee Sheet

Desert Rat News religion writer

        SALT LAKE CITY – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints today launched its own investigation into the origins of a large steel monolith located in southeastern Utah’s redrock desert.

        The shiny rectangular structure, about 12 feet high and a couple of feet wide and deep, was discovered by wildlife biologists in a helicopter who were monitoring wild bighorn sheep in the area. It is similar to a structure depicted in the landmark film “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

        The Mormon Church dispatched a team of archaeologists from Brigham Young University to the site, and offered a reward of up to $1,820 for information on the true origins of the monolith.

        Church spokesman Pat Rayark declined to comment on why the structure has attracted the attention of the church, but LaVarr R. “Mo” Skeptik, head of research at the Sunstone Education Foundation, speculated that it is simple jealousy.

        “Remember that Utah’s Legislature is 90 percent Mormon. The governor is Mormon. The entire state supreme court is Mormon.

        “You can bet your bottom dollar that the church wants to maintain itself as the state’s one and only monolith.”

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