It came from above!, or maybe below, right now, no one is quite sure. All we know is that the Sleeping giant is smoking.
That is, there's smoke rising from the hills around the Giant - which is off the Hummingbird Highway near Saint Margaret's village.
It's Belize's most compelling mystery tonight, and even social media has been smoking with all the speculation.
Cherisse Halsall has the story from the Giant's valley.
We're here in the valley of the Sleeping Giant, where a mysterious plume of smoke has captured the nation's attention. But was it Geological activity, the result of a lightning strike, or something from beyond?
That was the assumption that Heraldo Rodriguez and his crew were operated under over the weekend when they made an investigative trek.
Heraldo Moralez Mendez, Cattle Foreman
"We went with that thought that, well with the fear that there could be something bad there so we went walking, heading for the place but with that fear that there would be something bad like we're talking about some alien."
"You could see the fire that's burning and the smoke. So we couldn't get into the source of it because the fire didn't allow us to get in there."
"So we were only able to walk around. I was able to record a video of where we were walking but we couldn't get into the inside where it started practically where it sprouted."
"Yesterday it rained enough and it wasn't put out the smoke just continues to rise."
"It could be something that, well I thought like this, when I first saw it I thought if a lightning had struck, sometimes that can happen but when lightning strikes sometimes the trees, there are trees that get lit on fire but with this rain that would have been put out."
"You're not able to see what's inside. If there's a hole or something inside because there's lots of smoke and you can't see anymore of what's inside. It could be that a volcano could burst out here or something sent by god we don't know."
And Heraldo's boss Anthony Channona has his own theories, but he's waiting for the scientific geological results.
Anthony Channona, Managing Director, Blue Mountain Ranch Ltd.
"Pure speculation, I have no expertise because of the fact that we didn't experience what we consider to be fork lighting, my brother and I hold the theory that speculation that its something space debris or something that fell from space that hit that mountain to cause that fire. The experts will determine exactly what happened, so we are hoping they will be able to get up there and do that."
And if anyone saw a meteor fall it would be these cows, but they're not talking, leaving all the guesswork to human beings.
Anthony Channona, Managing Director, Blue Mountain Ranch Ltd. "It just shows you Cherisse the power of social media because I shared that video that heraldo did and almost instantaneously the amount of phone calls and national interest."
A ranch hand who works for Channona's neighbor was also on that weekend trek. He told his boss what he saw up there.
Geoffrey Frankson, Owner, Rancho Lomas
"Well he saw trees had been burnt but not with fire. The area is obviously very hot so he stayed a safe distance away. But from where he was he could see that there was a lot of heat and of course the steam coming virtually out of the ground from where he could stand, he couldn't quite figure out what it was then he decided he was gonna come to me and talk about it."
"I called Mr. Andre Cho with a friend of mine to find out more about what he thought was happening."
For his part Frankson believes we're dealing with a steam vent, a crack in the ground that allows water to seep down to hot rocks below. His theory is that that water is evaporating, turning to steam and rising back up.
Geoffrey Frankson, Owner, Rancho Lomas
"But it's not under pressure so it won't be a geyser which is what you get in places like Yellowstone park in the states. So this is just steam coming back up from hot rocks."
"Water falling on the rocks and coming up as steam. So something is either heating up the rocks from below or the water is filtering down to the hot rocks and coming back up as steam and I expect that's what the Geologists will have to establish."
Cherisse Halsall:
"Sir there's been a lot of talk of volcanic activity and any trepidation for having a property in this area, I know that's very far-fetched?"
Geoffrey Frankson, Owner, Rancho Lomas
"Not, at all, this is not a volcanic area there are no volcanoes around here, this is not volcanic soil, none of these mountains are volcanic the mantle is thick Mr. Cho tells me that a thick mantle means that you're not going to get any volcanic activity or eruptions. So there's not going to be an eruption of lava. There's not going to be a volcano."
But, right now, it's all just informed speculation - those real scientific definitives are left up to these guys - the Geology and Petroleum unit - who are going on a fact finding trek up the hill, later this week.
Cho, a scientist refuses to go on the record until he has some facts but we learned that the Ministry of natural resources in the process of hiring a four-man crew, a group that will cut out a path to the site and help to ward off all the wild animals that could threaten the scientists on their way to the top.
And when it comes to that initial trek the media will be barred, at least until such time as the geologists can determine whether the area is safe.
