Newly-released drone footage suggests Saudi Arabia is building something in the desert that might be its long-promised "The Line" megacity, despite widespread assumptions that the entire project was a utopian fantasy at best.

Saudi Arabian drone photography company Ot Sky took the footage and it was published by Dezeen, an architecture magazine which previously interviewed NEOM's executive director for urban planning Tarek Qaddumi. "Irrespective of its physical stature, it will end up demonstrating that the world has the human capacity, the technology and the commitment to revolutionize our current way of life," Qaddumi told Dezeen at the time.

The video shows trucks and other heavy machinery working in the desert, and numerous excavators seem to be clearing a big ass line through the earth. Motherboard reached out to Ot Sky on WhatsApp and the company confirmed they took the video.