Rumors Of 10 Foot Alien At Miami Mall Circulate Online—Here’s What Actually Happened

Topline Rumors and video clips of panic , massive police presence and what social media users claim to be an eight to 10 foot alien appearing 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.

Miami's Bayside Marketplace was the site of the incident. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Key Facts One low quality clip circulating on social media allegedly shows a tall alien creature walking between a dozen squad cars and an area near Miami’s Bayside Marketplace, though some users on X, formerly known at Twitter, have casted doubt on the unconvincing nature of the video.

The scenes from the supposed appearance of the alien match up with news coverage and video footage that covered a New Year’s Day brawl at the mall that involved several fights and loud fireworks that caused a resident to report an active shooter, according to NBC South Florida , provoking a large police response.

A clearer video that closely matches the alleged alien clip actually appears to be 2 to 3 people, likely police officers, walking together between the squad cars and an area near the mall. Mixed in with alleged footage of the alien were videos of people running in panic from the area, with some users conflating the clips with locals running from the creature.

Miami Police Department confirmed on Monday it received a call of shots fired and eventually concluded the reported sounds came from the fireworks, according to a post on X . Four males were detained during the incident and face charges including burglary, grand theft, battery and resisting an officer, NBC reported, arrests made in connection to the assault of a man who confronted a group of teens he believed threw a bottle at his car.

Crucial Quote “There were no aliens, UFOs, or ETs. No airports were closed. No power outages,” Miami Police Department told Forbes in an email, adding that citywide officers were deployed for crowd control due to juveniles refusing to leave the area. Key Background Aliens have become an increasingly buzzy topic for Americans.

In July, former intelligence official David Grusch said in a congressional hearing that “non human biologics ” were at alleged crash sites and that he knew multiple colleagues injured by unidentified aerial phenomenon activity. Grusch also claimed the U.S. government ran a decades long program designed to collect and reverse engineer crashed unidentified aerial phenomena (known as UAPs).

The testimony incited discourse on social media around the existence of aliens. A few months later self proclaimed ufologist Jamie Maussan presented two fossilized bodies he claimed were “non human” corpses to Mexican Congress. However, Maussan’s track record regarding the discovery of extraterrestrial life hasn’t been entirely solid.

He participated in a 2017 video report that showed alleged non human remains later debunked as a mummified child’s corpse. The video was posted by Gaia.com, a platform that charges $99 a year for paranormal and supernatural videos and one that has been scrutinized as a conspiracy theory hub. Further Reading 4 teens arrested after large fight caused chaos in Bayside Marketplace on New Year's Day (NBC South Florida) Aliens In Mexico? Not So Fast—Presenters Have History Of Being Debunked (Forbes).