{"id":6936,"date":"2024-06-26T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6936"},"modified":"2024-06-26T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:50:18","slug":"another-monolith-appeared-near-las-vegas-whos-behind-these-mysterious-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/26\/another-monolith-appeared-near-las-vegas-whos-behind-these-mysterious-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Another monolith appeared near Las Vegas. Who&#8217;s behind these mysterious objects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/06\/26\/nx-s1-5017575\/monolith-las-vegas-mystery-objects\">NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First it was Utah. Then Romania. And California. Spain. Wales. Paraguay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The metallic monoliths began to be found in late 2020 by unsuspecting viewers in seemingly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/12\/01\/940441737\/another-mysterious-monolith-suddenly-appears-this-time-in-romania\">random locations<\/a>&nbsp;around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often evocative of a science fiction movie prop, the mysterious objects captured the public\u2019s attention and frequently drew crowds hoping to catch a glimpse of the bewildering columns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, earlier this month, another gleaming prism materialized outside of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe see a lot of weird things when people go hiking like not being prepared for the weather, not bringing enough water&#8230; but check this out!\u201d the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LVMPD\/status\/1802767918637490203\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in a post on X.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"  zp RUkX cPpmdr rdp UIX  xv\">  zp RUkX cPpmdr rdp UIX  xv<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR First it was Utah. Then Romania. And California. Spain. Wales. Paraguay. The metallic monoliths began to be found in late 2020 by unsuspecting viewers in seemingly&nbsp;random locations&nbsp;around the world. Often evocative of a science fiction movie prop, the mysterious objects captured the public\u2019s attention and frequently drew crowds hoping to catch a glimpse of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6937,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}