{"id":2961,"date":"2025-09-08T13:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:45:50","slug":"a-towering-monolith-on-mars-stands-alone-in-silence-igniting-whispers-of-ancient-aliens-watching-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/a-towering-monolith-on-mars-stands-alone-in-silence-igniting-whispers-of-ancient-aliens-watching-from-afar\/","title":{"rendered":"A towering monolith on Mars stands alone in silence, igniting whispers of ancient aliens watching from afar."},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS rocky Mars \u201cmonolith\u201d caused a storm when it appeared to show evidence there was once life on the Red Planet. Find out what it really is<\/p>\n

\"Up<\/p>\n

Up close \u2026 the \u2018monolith\u2019 caught on film<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on the headlines from News. Followed categories will be added to My News.<\/p>\n

THE mystery of the rocky Mars \u201cmonolith\u201d which set tongues wagging around the world when it appeared to show evidence there was once life on the Red Planet has been solved \u2013 and alien hopefuls won\u2019t be impressed<\/p>\n

\"Mars<\/p>\n

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Captured by a high-resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last July, it resembled the black monolith from Stanley Kubrick\u2019s movie\u00a02001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But Britain\u2019s\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0newspaper reveals scientists at the University of Arizona, which captured the original image, insist it\u2019s just a broken boulder.<\/p>\n

\"Strange<\/p>\n

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University spokesman Yisrael Spinoza said: \u201cIt would be unwise to refer to it as a \u2018monolith\u2019 or \u2018structure\u2019 because that implies something artificial, like it was put there by someone for example.<\/p>\n

\"Mars<\/p>\n

\u201cIn reality it\u2019s more likely that this boulder has been created by breaking away from the bedrock to create a rectangular-shaped feature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scientist Alfred McEwen added: \u201cThere are lots of rectangular boulders on Earth and Mars and other planets.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLayering from rock deposition combined with tectonic fractures creates right-angle planes of weakness such that rectangular blocks tend to weather out and separate from the bedrock.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THIS rocky Mars \u201cmonolith\u201d caused a storm when it appeared to show evidence there was once life on the Red Planet. Find out what it really is Up close \u2026 the \u2018monolith\u2019 caught on film Don\u2019t miss out on the headlines from News. Followed categories will be added to My News. THE mystery of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[1167,1168],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aliens","category-ufo","tag-a-towering-monolith-on-mars-stands-alone-in-silence","tag-igniting-whispers-of-ancient-aliens-watching-from-afar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliensufo.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}