His pictures, posted to his Instagram account, show the monolith surrounded by what looks like a crop circle made in the snow. Monoliths have been popping up across the country and around the world since A crew from the Utah Department of Public Safety and Division of Wildlife Resources spotted the gleaming object in one of the most remote parts of the state on Nov. 18. The smooth, tall structure was found in a southern Utah canyon during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep and became a beacon of fascination around the world as it evoked the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.”