I thought we were researchers. I was able to find the sauce behind this in minutes. It was a monolith competition. You can find all kinds of details about it online. They had to construct a monolith that was vertical, reflective and stood 8 to 9 feet tall. There a fee variations in different geolocations. Just another low level story to distract the masses. Remember they dont have Michael Jackson around to do this shit for them anymore.