So today i bring a special ting for you

I could
I could easily, like
I could like, purchase it
Like, I could, like, purchase it for myself, you know what i mean? but i don't wanna do that
I wanna like, do a good thing and gift it to people, you know what i mean?

(So i stole it and it could be yours if you just, like, gimmie all your details, you know wad i mean?)

You know wad i'm sayin'
Like, the trust is yours Man

Now that the Utah one is gone, there's one in Romania: https://futurism.com/the-byte/mysteriou ... th-romania

Where's it off to next?

Photographer confirms humans removed mysterious Utah monolith
Four men destroyed metal pillar, saying: ‘Leave no trace’

Good work? or "bad actors"?

Maybe low life thieves hoping to make a buck.
or the local red-neck good 'ol boys who don't want outsiders flooding their nice quiet private desert hidaway
or Atifa Greenies stewarding the local pristine environment

Good work in any case
I would have done it just as part of the art that it always was

it's not about the object, 'never was

2001 Space Odyssey's ending was a bit confusing, but the end of the novel it originated from was more explicit :

" ....So they left a sentinel, one of millions they have scattered throughout the Universe, watching over
all worlds with the promise of life. It was a beacon that down the ages has been patiently signaling
the fact that no one had discovered it.
Perhaps you understand now why that crystal pyramid was set upon the Moon instead of on the
Earth. Its builders were not concerned with races still struggling up from savagery. They would be
interested in our civilization only if we proved our fitness to survive -by crossing space and so
escaping from the Earth, our cradle. That is the challenge that all intelligent races must meet,
sooner or later. It is a double challenge, for it depends in turn upon the conquest of atomic energy
and the last choice between life and death.
Once we had passed that crisis, it was only a matter of time before we found the pyramid and
forced it open. Now its signals have ceased, and those whose duty it is will be turning their minds
upon Earth. Perhaps they wish to help our infant civilization. But they must be very, very old, and
the old are often insanely jealous of the young.
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of
stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the
fire-alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.
I do not think we will have to wait for long."

Arthur C Clarke, 1951

Oldies goldies.

Anyway, it would be pretty dumb for aliens to put an alarm nowadays, and on Earth. We might be a retarded specie in the universe, but we can still find a piece of metal to scrap, a few miles away in the countryside, aren't we ?

I like the hide and seek concept though.