Miami mall shut down by police as rumors of \u201c8-10ft\u201d aliens inside go viral Twitter: JustXAshton, MattFrenchArtFootage of cop cars swarming a Miami mall has sparked rumors of \u201c8-10ft shadow aliens\u201d being responsible for the massive police presence called to the shopping center. Chaos broke out at the Bayside Marketplace in Miami, Florida on New Year\u2019s Day after a large group of \u201cunruly juveniles\u201d sparked a riot at the open-air mall. Reports state that the teens were shooting off fireworks and causing panic among shoppers. The sound of fireworks caused one resident to mistake them for gunshots, who called police to alert them of a potential shooting situation. As a result, a massive swarm of cop cars gathered around the shopping center around 8 PM that evening. Footage from the event went viral across social media days later\u2014 but not for the reasons you might expect. Miami mall \u2018alien\u2019 incident goes viral on social media Several threads have now gone viral online as netizens claim that, instead of teenagers disrupting the mall, \u201c8-10ft tall shadow aliens\u201d were to blame for the swath of police that showed up at the scene. \u201cSome witnesses are reporting 8-10 foot shadow beings were being shot at by people, with others fleeing,\u201d one viral post claims on Twitter\/X. \u201cSupposedly people went into fight or flight mode.\u201d Still others are zooming in on one of the videos taken from the incident, with one user claiming to see a \u201cgray creature walking in between these police cars and the building.\u201d However, still, more netizens aren\u2019t convinced that aliens were the ones responsible for the incident, with many mocking the theory in humorous posts. Are the Miami mall alien rumors true? So\u2026 were there really aliens at the Bayside Marketplace? Thus far, no official reports have claimed as such, nor do they include any supposed witness statements about tall shadow creatures that are circulating online. In fact, Miami police have now debunked the claims of aliens running amok at the Bayside Marketplace. In response to a viral video seemingly showing a shadowy figure, a Miami PD spokesperson said: \u201cWhat is seen in this clip is the shadow of someone walking. If you look at the bottom of the shadow, you can see the person. No creature.\u201d Despite this, plenty of social media users are still convinced that the number of officers who showed up to the scene was \u201cdisproportionally large for kids fighting with sticks.\u201d Reports from NBC Miami state that four teens were arrested as a result of the riot for assaulting a man at the scene. Miami police say that two of the teens are facing charges on \u201cburglary unoccupied conveyance, grand theft, battery, and resisting an officer without violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Miami mall shut down by police as rumors of \u201c8-10ft\u201d aliens inside go viral Twitter: JustXAshton, MattFrenchArtFootage of cop cars swarming a Miami mall has sparked rumors of \u201c8-10ft shadow aliens\u201d being responsible for the massive police presence called to the shopping center. Chaos broke out at the Bayside Marketplace in Miami, Florida on New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}