Fake Alien Invasion 2024

Rumors and video clips of panic, massive police presence and what social media users claim to be an eight-to-10-foot alienappearing at a Miami mall cropped up online Friday, though the digital buzz around the supposed appearance seems to be sourced from footage of a new year’s day brawl at the shopping center that involved several juveniles and a police response Police Refute Viral Miami Mall Alien Conspiracy Theory: ‘

There Were No Aliens, UFOs, or ETs’ Twitter, a site I still refuse to refer to as X, was ablaze with talk of a purported alien sighting in Miami this week following a large police presence at a mall. But one quick scroll through such claims, not to mention the employment of basic common sense, shows the chatter is almost certainly another case of time-wasting dumbassery. Here’s the short of it: On New Year’s Day, an admittedly massive police presence was filmed in the Bayside Marketplace shopping area. Ultimately, several arrests were made after police initially received reports of a fight, as well as word that multiple individuals in the area shot off fireworks. Footage from the scene made its way to Twitter, TikTok, and elsewhere before some started pushing the “Miami mall alien” conspiracy theory by pointing to a portion of the footage they insisted showed a tall “creature” of some sort. Zoomed in or otherwise, the portion of the footage in question was decidedly not clear, nor did it definitively suggest anything other than so-so video quality.