Welsh hiker stumbles upon mystery silver monolith: ‘It looked like a UFO’

Craig Muir said he was hiking when he came across the steel-like structure standing in a muddy patch at the hill's peak.

While hiking in the Welsh countryside, one might expect to find green pastures, spindly deciduous trees and fluffy sheep — but one hiker on Tuesday discovered a large monolith mysteriously placed atop a hill in the county of Powys.

Craig Muir said he was hiking up Hay Bluff in Wales when he came across the steel-like structure standing in a muddy patch at the hill’s peak.

Muir, who filmed his finding, told news agency PA Media the structure appeared to be made of a “very fine metallic, almost surgical, steel.”

He said the monolith is about 10 feet (nearly 3 metres) tall “and looked perfectly levelled and steady” despite the region’s windy weather.

“When I first saw it, I was a bit taken aback as it looked like some sort of a UFO,” Muir said.

In his video, Muir filmed himself as he approached the monolith on the gusty hilltop.

“I’ve never seen this before,” Muir prefaced.

The visual is strikingly odd — just the shiny, straight structure alone on the weedy, brown hilltop.