Gleaming Monolith Pops Up in Nevada Desert, Latest in Series of Quickly Vanishing Structures

A monolith near Gass Peak, Nev., on June 16, 2024. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP

LAS VEGAS—The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world.

Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism’s reflective surface imitates the vast desert landscape surrounding the mountain peak where it has been erected.