Discovery follows spate of monoliths around the world in 2020, which conspiracy theorists speculated could have been the work of aliens

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13091561

“It didn’t seem like it was chucked in there, instead it has been accurately put in the ground,” he told PA Media. “However, there were no obvious tracks around it and one would think that there would be a lot of mess around it, but there wasn’t.”

No one has yet come forward to claim responsibility for the Welsh monolith.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You just know that when the guy was interviewed he was probably asked 12 different ways how to describe it when he first saw it and casually said something like “I didn’t know what it was, I guess it looked like a UFO or something.” And the journalist thought that was just the best headline material ever to hook people in a totally-not-deceptive way.

    A story that’s a good mystery all on its own is always so much better when you add “But what if… Aliens!!! 👽👽😱” on top of it. /s