The Mojave Desert is the driestdesertin North America, and though it rests betweenLas Vegasand Los Angeles, it is remote, mostly roadless and full of secrecy. Not far from the ghost town of Crucero, California, this arid emptiness is home to the enigmatic Mojave Megaphone, so-called for its resemblance to a loudspeaker.
坐落在一个偏远的心脏ner of the Mojave Desert National Preserve, this "megaphone" is a rusty hunk of metal permanently embedded into a rocky outcropping. No one has been able to identify what, exactly, this thing is. Some call it the Sentinel Enigma. Others call it art. Everyone calls it a mystery, much like theUtah monoliththat made worldwide headlines in November 2020.
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Furthermore, there's nothing and no one, for miles around. It's a riddle as to how this heavy, roughly 8-foot- (2.4-meter-) long, unwieldy object wound up in its resting place. Comprised of two horn-shaped pieces of metal bolted together in the middle, it's too big to be a one-person job. A group of people — or perhaps aliens? — went to a lot of work to place this monstrosity far from any civilized place, mounting it on the cliffside.
No one knows how long it's been there, either.
"My best guess is that it was put up there about 30+ years ago," says Eric Edwards, the founder ofCampsitePhotos, via email. Hewrote about the Sentinel Enigma on his blogand has visited it. "Although it is in two pieces, each piece is very heavy but a few people could probably carry and drag it up there. Still, it would be very difficult and take a long time to get it up that hill."
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