text: Then in April 5 1998, when Mars Global Surveyour flew overv Cydonia for the first time and there people took ten times better images and said it was just a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. Then my friend Ben started to understand until his friend Jeff said April,1998, a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet . The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy, white clouds to see the face. They say they were alien markings were hidden by haze.