A DOG walker had a surprise this morning (Thursday, January 7) when walking his dogs on his usual route in a field near Crediton.
Arthur Arscott found an obelisk had appeared overnight.
The frost-covered tapering metal pillar has been planted into the ground and bears no clue as to how it got there or who planted it.
Unattributed metal sculptures have been springing up across the globe after a shiny obelisk appeared in Utah in November.
Conspiracy theorists were fascinated and the Utah monolith was soon removed.
Next, one was found in Romania and the first UK monolith materialised near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
Arthur told the Courier: "We found it when we were out for a walk with the dogs at 7.45am this morning.
"It was just getting light and the dogs saw it and started barking.
"It was covered in frost as it was about minus four degrees at the time.
"It is made of galvanised metal and there was not a foot mark or any earth around it.
’It is quite a wet field and I was only there at 4.30pm last night and it wasn’t there then."
Many people have been travelling to see the object to have a photograph taken with it.