Four men were spotted removing the mysterious metal monolith when it disappeared from a remote section of Utah, an eyewitness claims.
The three-sided stainless-steel structure first spotted by wildlife officials counting sheep in southeastern Utah on Nov. 18 was taken down late Friday by a team of four men who worked in pairs and shoved it to the ground, the New York Times reported.
Ross Bernards, a 34-year-old photographer from Colorado, told the newspaper he drove six hours earlier that night to get a glimpse of the peculiar structure that prompted worldwide speculation over how it got there, since it was installed illegally on public lands.
After pushing the monolith to the ground, Bernards said, the men broke it apart and took it away in a wheelbarrow, the New York Times reported.
“As they walked off with the pieces, one of them said, ‘Leave no trace,’” Bernards told the newspaper....