In the United States, the belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life is firmly rooted among the population. DANLIN Media GmbH / stock.adobe.com
Crazy hypotheses have spread on American social networks, attesting to the presence of a “three meter high” alien in the streets of Miami, in the United States. The police have denied any extraterrestrial presence.
Scared teenagers running in the streets, screams, and a three-meter-high alien moving around the city: the city of Miami (United States), began the year 2024 with a bang, victim of a supposed alien attack, reports NBC News on January 5.
A group of around fifty teenagers provoked a riot on Monday January 2 at the Beyside Marketplace, an open-air shopping center located about 8 kilometers from South Beach, according to Miami police. The fireworks set off by these young people caused panic, while some passers-by thought there was a shooting, said Michael Vega, public information officer for the Miami police.
The police deployed to stem the crowd movement finally arrested four teenagers. The police were dispatchedto control the crowd due to the refusal of young people to leave“, Michael Vega said in an email to NBC News. “Some businesses have been temporarily closed to allow us to clear the area.»
The affair could have ended there, except that very quickly, a crazy rumor spread on social networks. The police would not have moved to control the troublemakers, but rather to take care of “shadow aliens, nearly three meters tall.“Many Internet users then claim to be able to discern a silhouette”clearly» extraterrestrial on the videos which are circulating on the web. Very quickly, hypotheses were unleashed on X (formerly Twitter).
“I don’t know what bothers me more about this story: the fact that we live in a world where something like this can happen… or that something like this can happen in our world or that not a single media outlet published the story“, even declared a woman on TikTok.
Rumors quickly denied by local authorities. “There were no aliens», Michael Vega insisted on responding to NBC News. “No airports have been closed. Nothing is hidden from the public. LOL“, he quipped again.
In the United States, the belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life is firmly rooted among the population, and arouses great enthusiasm. Nearly two-thirds of the American population believe that aliens do exist, but that the government is hiding the truth, according to a commissioned poll by CBS News in 2021.
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