‘It looked like a UFO’: hiker discovers mysterious silver monolith in Powys

Craig Muir, a Welsh builder, who spotted what he assumed was ‘some sort of a UFO’ at the summit of Hay Bluff hill in Powys. Photograph: Craig Muir/PA

When Craig Muir spotted an object while hiking the summit of a hill, he thought he was having a close encounter of the third kind. However, while (apparently) not a UFO, the shiny, silver monolith in a muddy patch of Powys uplands was strikingly mysterious.

“When I first saw it, I was a bit taken aback as it looked like some sort of a UFO,” said Muir, a builder who lives in Hay-on-Wye nearby. “It seemed like a very fine metallic [material], almost like a surgical steel. The steel structure was almost 10ft long and looked perfectly levelled and steady, despite the weather being windy.”