A monolith that mysteriously appeared in Turkey before its disappearance on Tuesday turned out to be an advertising action related to the country’s newly announced space program.
The 10-foot metal plaque inscribed with the phrase “Look at the sky, you will see the moon” in the old Turkish writing was discovered on Friday by a farmer from Sanliurfa province.
By Tuesday morning, the glittering structure was gone, baffling the locals.
“We do not know if it was placed on my land for marketing or advertising purposes,” farmer Fuat Demirdil told state agency Anadolu.
“Residents cannot solve the mystery of the metal block,” he added.
But the riddle was solved later that day, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan projected an image of the monolith on a screen while announcing the country’s new space program.
“I now present to you the vision, strategy and 10-year goals of Turkey and tell you, ‘look at the sky, you will see the moon,'” Erdogan said during a televised event.
Erdogan’s use of the structure and the phrase inscribed on it during his announcement made it clear that the appearance of the monolith had been part of a trick.
It was just the latest in a series of recent incidents in which similar structures have emerged and disappeared in many countries.
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