ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – A metal monolith who mysteriously appeared and disappeared on a field in southeastern Turkey appears to be an advertising fiction ahead of a government event on Tuesday during which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a space program for the country.
The three-meter-high (about 10 feet high) metal plate with an ancient Turkish script was found by a farmer in Sanliurfa province on Friday. It was discovered near the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Gobekli Tepe, home to megalithic structures dating from the 10th millennium BC, thousands of years before Stonehenge.
However, the shiny structure on which the inscription “Look at the sky, you will see the moon” in the ancient Turkish Gokturk alphabet, was reported to have disappeared on Tuesday morning, magnified the mystery.
An image of the monolith was later projected on a screen when Erdogan presented Turkey’s space program during a television event.
“I now present to you the vision, strategy and goals of Turkey, and I say, ‘look at the sky, you will see the moon,'” Erdogan said.
The state-run Anadolu agency had earlier quoted the owner of the field as saying he was surprised by its appearance and disappearance.
“We do not know if it was placed on my field for marketing purposes or as an advertisement,” Anadolu Fuat quoted Demirdil. ‘We saw that the metal block was no longer in place. Residents also can not solve the mystery of the metal block. ”
The agency also quoted local resident Hasan Yildiz as saying the block was still at the field Monday night, but disappeared that morning.
Other mysterious monoliths have also appeared and some have disappeared in numerous countries over the past few months.
Gobekli Tepe was the setting for the Turkish Netflix mystery series ‘The Gift’.