August 20, 2025 • 21 mins
Grab your Bath and Body Works bag, take the blurriest video of an interdimensional being possible and maybe get a pretzel on the way out because today we're gaining a broader understanding of the January 1st 2024 Miami mall alien incident. It swept the news and social media but disappeared as fast as it came. Was it just fireworks and teenagers or did other worldly beings really want to see what The Cheesecake Factory was all about?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Okay, and now to our number one trending story on
Cbsmiami dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It involves talk of alien sightings at Bayside Marketplace.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
On New Year's Day, there was a massive police response.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
In downtown Miami.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
More than fifty young people armed with sticks began fighting.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Please say juveniles. We're also setting off fireworks causing chaos.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So now people are posting online saying that police weren't
there to handle a group of routing teens, but rather
eight to ten feet tall shadowy aliens. Conspiracy theories are
saying a big creature could be seen standing in front
of the entrance to the shopping area Bayside Today. The
phrases Miami Mall and aliens of Miami have been among
(00:49):
the top ten searches on Twitter's trending tab. Twitter, of
course now called X and Google News even has several
reports questioning the event.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
They reached out to the Miami Police Department. They issued
a statement saying.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
In part quote, there were no aliens, UFOs or ets,
no airports were.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Closed, no power outages.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Face palm emoji was included in the statement.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And to read up on the story that has gone.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Viral, Hello neighbors, lovers, friends and aliens headed to the
cheesecake factory. I'm Danielli Scrima and this is Broad's next Door.
Grab your Bath and Bodyworks bag and make sure to
get the blurriest photo of a shadow alien ever, because
today we're getting a broader understanding of the Miami Mall
(01:39):
alien incident that happened on January first, twenty twenty four.
It was all over the news and social media until
it was brushed aside as just teenagers fighting each other
with fireworks. But that kind of sounds like a government
conspiracy to me if I've ever heard one. Twenty twenty
(02:01):
four was full of all these alien stories, the drones,
the Las Vegas aliens, and then everything just kind of
got brushed aside. Today we're gonna try and figure out
what really happened. Were they just go into Bath and
body Works and got lost, or was it really just
a case of mall hysteria. Hi? Hello, I hope you
(02:23):
are doing well. I hope you have not been abducted.
If you have, I hope you are in close contact
with someone like Fox Molder. This is gonna be a
shorter episode since we've had some longer ones. This week.
But yes, let's talk aliens. What happened in Miami? Do
(02:44):
you remember this news story when this was such a
big sensation. I do, because some of the footage from it,
which I don't know if it was doctored or not,
But in that CBS Miami clip I just played, they
show it too, and there does look to be like
some shadowy figures, not what I would think of as
an alien. If I was there, it would have been like, oh,
interdimensional beings. But I'm equally as insane as some of
(03:10):
these people. So let's see how it was documented. This
is an article from Forbes dot com. Rumors of ten
foot alien and my Miami mall circulate online. Here's what
actually happened by Antonio Piceno the Fourth. Rumors and video
clips of panic, massive police presence, and what social media
(03:32):
users claim to be an eight to ten foot tall
alien appearing in a Miami mall cropped up online Friday.
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 police response. One
low quality clip circulating on social media allegedly shows a
(03:55):
tall alien creature walking between a dozen squad cars and
an area near Miami's Bayside Marketplace, though some users on
x formerly known as Twitter, have cast a 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
(04:16):
at the mall that involved several fights in loud fireworks
that caused a resident to report an active shooter, according
to NBC South Florida, provoking a large police presence. A
clearer video that closely matches the alleged alien clip actually
appears to be two to three people, likely police officers,
walking together between the squad cars and an area near
(04:38):
the mall, mixed in with alleged footage of the aliens,
where 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 report's
sounds came from fireworks. Four mails were detained during the
(04:59):
incident and faced charges including battery, grand theft, burglary, and
resisting an officer 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
(05:19):
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 twenty twenty three,
former intelligence official David Grush said in a congressional hearing
that non human biologics were at alleged crash sites that
(05:42):
he knew multiple colleagues injured injured by unidentified aerial phenomenon activity.
Grush also claimed the US government ran in decades long
program designed to collect and reverse engineer crashed identified aerial
phenomenon known as UAPs. The testimony in cited discourse on
social media around the existence of aliens. A few months later,
(06:06):
self proclaimed ufologist Jamie Mawson presented two fossilized bodies, Oh
they were so cute, he claimed, were human corpses to
Mexican Congress. However, Mussin's track record regarding the discovery of
extraterrestrial life hasn't been entirely solid. He participated in a
(06:26):
twenty seventeen report that showed alleged non human remains later
debunked as mummified child corpses. The video was posted by
Gaya dot com, a platform that charges ninety nine dollars
a year for paranormal and supernatural videos and one that
has been scrutinized as a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Hub House Oversight and Accountabilities of Committee held a historic
hearing on unidentified anoonyalist phenomena, also known as UFOs. Lawmakers
heard from three witnesses today, including former US military and
intelligence community personnel who claimed to have come into contact
with such objects. Natalie Brand has more now from that hearing.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Sing close to it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Retired Navy Commander David Fraver testified before Congress about an
encounter he cannot explain, a strange tic tac shaped object
he says he saw in the sky during a training
mission in two thousand and four.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
The technology that we faced was far superior than anything
that we had.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are digging into the national security
concerns and the mystery posed by unidentified anomalist phenomena or UAPs,
also known as UFOs.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Do you believe that our government is in possession of
UAPs absolutely.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Based on interviewing over forty witnesses or four years, I
know the exact locations.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
A whistleblower who formerly worked on the Defense Department's UAP
task Force, David Grush, claims he has denied access to
information on a government UFO crash retrieval program, something that
Pentagon disputes.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Biologics came with some of these recoveries.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Were they I guess human or non human?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Biologics non human and that was the assessment of people
which recknowledge on the program.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I talked to congress members from both sides of the
isle are demanding more transparency from the US Department of Defense.
Our recent report revealed the government is investigating more than
six hundred and fifty potential sightings that Ryan Graves of
Americans for Safe Aerospace says, there's still a stigma around
reporting right now.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
We need a system where pilots can report without fear
of losing their jobs.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The witnesses say better data is needed to determine what
the identified objects are and their origins. Natalie Brands CBS
News Capitol Hill, and.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Then we had all those drone sightings that just like
stopped where they were like, they're not a threat. We
don't know what they are. It was so weird. It
was such a bizarre period of time. People in New
Jersey were saying they saw like giant drones in their backyard.
So here's the FBI addressing that bus time has.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Expired to recognize jomen from Texas. Mister Gonzalez, thank you, chairman.
And you know, sometimes I feel like I'm in the
twilight zone up here, Like months after months, people come
before us, they testify, and you don't get a lot
of answers, and it's it's, uh, it's concerning, it's frustrating.
Uh you're telling me we don't know what the hell
(09:15):
these drones are in New Jersey, are Zach? I mean
that's crazy, that's madness that we don't know what these
drones are.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Sure the I mean this would be so if they
would shoot them all down, everything down are.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
The Bureau is actively investigating the situation you mentioned, just
the unexplained sighting of drone activity over over that part
of New Jersey, including proximity to sensitive sites and uh
areas of concern.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
So the.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
We do not attribute that to an individual or a
group yet we're in investigating, but I don't have an
answer of who's responsible for that of one or more
people that are responsible for those drone flights that we're
actively investigating. It is concerning there.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Is the public at risk?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Is public safety at risk?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Are we concerned?
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Are but various intentions.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Because either national security or a public safety incident that
would put Americans at risk.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
There is nothing that is known that would lead me
to say that, But we just don't know. And that's
the concerning part, the.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Fact that we have all right, good afternoon, everybody.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
A couple of.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Questions about the drums.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
There have been repeated drone sightings in the Northeast, especially
in New Jersey. They're flying at low altitudes.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
They're flying in flocks.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Has the President been briefed on this situation?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So we are certainly aware the president is where so
we're closely tracking inactivity and coordinating closely with relevant agency
including DHS and FBI to continue to investigate these incidents.
Don't have anything beyond that to share. Obviously, this is
something that DHS and FBI are tracking very very closely,
and so I would have to refer you to them directly.
(11:17):
But where keeping an eye out and looking into the
incidents that you just mentioned. But yeah, has the federal
government ruled out that these are controlled by foreign entities?
And do you know if they're conducting surveillance over so
I cannot make any any kind of predictions or comments
(11:38):
about that specifically from here. This is something that DHS
is looking at and FBI, so I would have to
refer you to them. I don't have anything beyond that
we're tracking this very closely. Obviously, we're all aware of
the incidents that have been reported. I'm not going to
go into what they could be or could not be
(11:59):
from here. That is something that obviously is being looked
at those respective agencies and times.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Which was the President briefed on this?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I don't have a timeline, but he certainly has been
made aware of this.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
What's the White House message that people out there who
are frustrated that there.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Isn't information and obviously we hear them, and we understand
that we are closely tracking this.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
We are monitoring the.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Incidents that are been put forward and certainly made public,
and we have to respect to two agencies that I've
already mentioned that are looking into this, working closely with
folks on the ground trying to get to the bottom
of it. I don't have anything more to share beyond that, so.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I just want to photow up on your comment or
you're yeah, isn't that weird? Isn't that like the weirdest
thing ever? And then we also had the whole Las
Vegas aliens thing, where like a UFO landed in a backyard.
This is from the ever reliable Inside Edition.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
It's a story that's gathered worldwide attention. Did as land
in the backyard of this Las Vegas home?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Recently we told you about that spooky situation in Las
Vegas when a flash in the sky was captured on video.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
The reports echoed those campy fifties sci fi movies about
alien invaders.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
This could be the beginning of the end.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
It started when a mysterious fireball lit up the Las
Vegas night sky, which was caught on a CoP's body.
Can Only Inside Edition is with the family who called
nine one one that night. Sixteen year old Angel Canmore
says he saw two creatures in his backyard and was
paralyzed with fear. His father and brother say they also
(13:36):
saw the creatures. You believe you saw something that wasn't
from this planet.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I believe this saw something.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yeah, that wasn't they from Earth?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Was this really an extraterrestrial sighting? The family says. Three
days after the encounter, a government vehicle showed up outside
the house with three men in black to investigate.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
This is an alien and you guys are from some
government agency trying to keep.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
It under reps. Guys was driving a black suburban with
you as government placement.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
They was passing around.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You know when we opened the garage, we went through
them there just run away.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Do you think that they were here to investigate?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
What is?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
When Las Vegas cops released the body cam footage, the
worldwide spotlight was thrust on the Kenmore family overnight. Total
strangers walked to their home wanting to see for themselves
the location of one of the most intriguing UFO sightings
in decades. We're in your backyard now since all of
this went public, have people been climbing over your fences?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Science writer and UFO skeptic Mick West has another explanation
for what the Kenmores could have seen that night. The raccoon,
which has great, big black eyes, could be.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
On top of the fence, and so what could mistake.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Now a raccoon, racoon coote.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Jumping out of the fence.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Do you think that that creature was an animal or
a raccoon?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
No, that was too big for bea raccoon.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Attorney sam Ryan Hadari represents the family.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
You have to appreciate the level of guests.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
The only thing they did it was reporting it to
the police. You've talked to the dad and the mom
and the two sons. Do you believe these people? I
believe that they believe that it was real.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
All right.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Back to Miami. Let's rewind a little bit. It's January first,
twenty twenty four, the night of the eight foot creatures.
So here's what we do know. Multiple people reported a
large disturbance at our near Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami.
Police showed up in massive numbers like riot squad, drone deployment,
entire street lockdown level response. Bystanders filmed video of heavily
(15:40):
armed officers swarming them all and surrounding streets. In some
video footage, it's believed you can hear people shouting things
like they're still in there, They're huge, they're not human.
The videos started going viral immediately, TikTok, Reddit, Twitter, every
weird corner of the Internet. The hashtag Miami alien exploded overnight.
(16:02):
One clip, Grainy, shadowy, weirdly cinematic shows a dark, tall
humanoid figure moving in a way that is not normal,
too fast, too smooth, and way too tall. Other alleged
footage shows two of them side by side. Some people
claim the creatures were ten feet tall with glowing eyes
and reflective skin. Some say they weren't aliens but inter
(16:24):
dimensional beings that would have been. That would have been
my vote. The footage is unclear, deliberately conveniently, who knows,
But the reaction was undeniable. People were panicked not because
of what they saw, but because of how fast it
was explained away the official story. Miami Pidy released a
statement saying there was no alien creature. It was just
(16:47):
fireworks related incident that got out of hand. I'm sorry,
but fireworks. You need a swat team and aerial drones
for fire works. Then why the helicopters, Why the lockdowns,
Why this cell service disruption in the area right after?
Why were news outlets scrubbing coverage within twenty four hours?
(17:07):
The cover up theory. This is where it gets a
little spicy. It wasn't fireworks. It was an encounter that
the public wasn't supposed to see. I mean, the aliens
should have gone to the mall if no one was
supposed to see the beings weren't alien but escaped biotech experiments.
I loved that they also chose to go to the mall.
(17:27):
Or and I love this one. It was a real event,
and the viral hoax angle was planted intentionally to drown
the truth in meme noise, a distraction via discrediting, make
it so weird, so memable, that anyone who brings it
up sounds like a lunatic see Denver Airport, Montalk literally
anything involving a lizard person. So what does this matter?
(17:50):
Even if you don't believe there were aliens at the mall?
You have to ask why did this story, as well
as the drones and the Las Vegas aliens, disappear so quickly,
And why are we so ready to dismiss things that
fall out of the sky outside of our normal bandwidth.
The truth is people did film something, people heard something,
and people saw something. And if we all get gasoled
(18:13):
into thinking it was just New Year's fireworks. Then we're
letting whoever controls the narrative dictate the boundaries of the
real So whether you think it was aliens, a viral
plant prank, or a glitch in the simulation, the Miami
Mall incidents reminds us that not all cover ups involve silence.
Some use noise. So much noise you stop listening, you
(18:35):
roll your eyes, you move on. But not here. We're
going to keep asking the weird questions because even if
the truth isn't out there, the story sure as hell is.
So what do you think? Do you think they were
aliens at the mall? I'm hopeful. One of my favorite
memes I've ever made is from Earth Girls Are Easy,
(18:58):
where they're all driving around in a convertible and it says,
showing our aliens the cheesecake factory. So no showing our
aliens the fancy mall with the cheesecake factory. I think
I really want there to be aliens. I also don't
want them to come to Earth, because like we would,
we would try and show everything that comes into the
sky we try and shoot down. That's why the whole
(19:19):
drone thing is so unbelievable to me. But if you
want a full episode on the drones because there's so much,
so much more to that, or the UAP hearings or
how it all just disappeared, let me know. I know
this was a short and weird one, but I figured
it was a good middle of the week way to
lighten things up. Let me know your thoughts. Thank you
(19:42):
so much for listening to another episode of Broad's next Door.
I hope you are enjoying season four. So far, we
have the Osborns turning forty mall aliens. Tomorrow, we have
Luke Goebel coming on to talk about Luigi Mangioni and
his upcoming book, Killed Dick. Luke's book, not Luigi's Luigi.
(20:05):
You write a book too for us. Send me your
Luigi memes. Friday, we have the Portland serial Killer next week.
I don't know yet because I haven't recorded anything, but
we do have an insane heat wave coming to Portland
where it's going to be ninety eight degrees on Friday,
ninety seven degrees on Saturday, ninety six degrees on Sunday,
(20:26):
and then like ninety degrees for four days, which is
just insane for the Pacific Northwest. We do not have
central air here. My little air conditioner unit like glue,
a confuse, popped a gasket whatever. However, electricity works one
hundred times last week, so I am not looking forward
to it. I am actually dreading it very very much.
(20:48):
But I love talking to you, and you can find
me online at Danielliscrama online at Broad's next door, and
I will talk to you tomorrow by eight
Okay, and now to our number one trending story on
Cbsmiami dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It involves talk of alien sightings at Bayside Marketplace.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
On New Year's Day, there was a massive police response.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
In downtown Miami.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
More than fifty young people armed with sticks began fighting.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Please say juveniles. We're also setting off fireworks causing chaos.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So now people are posting online saying that police weren't
there to handle a group of routing teens, but rather
eight to ten feet tall shadowy aliens. Conspiracy theories are
saying a big creature could be seen standing in front
of the entrance to the shopping area Bayside Today. The
phrases Miami Mall and aliens of Miami have been among
(00:49):
the top ten searches on Twitter's trending tab. Twitter, of
course now called X and Google News even has several
reports questioning the event.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
They reached out to the Miami Police Department. They issued
a statement saying.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
In part quote, there were no aliens, UFOs or ets,
no airports were.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Closed, no power outages.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Face palm emoji was included in the statement.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And to read up on the story that has gone.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Viral, Hello neighbors, lovers, friends and aliens headed to the
cheesecake factory. I'm Danielli Scrima and this is Broad's next Door.
Grab your Bath and Bodyworks bag and make sure to
get the blurriest photo of a shadow alien ever, because
today we're getting a broader understanding of the Miami Mall
(01:39):
alien incident that happened on January first, twenty twenty four.
It was all over the news and social media until
it was brushed aside as just teenagers fighting each other
with fireworks. But that kind of sounds like a government
conspiracy to me if I've ever heard one. Twenty twenty
(02:01):
four was full of all these alien stories, the drones,
the Las Vegas aliens, and then everything just kind of
got brushed aside. Today we're gonna try and figure out
what really happened. Were they just go into Bath and
body Works and got lost, or was it really just
a case of mall hysteria. Hi? Hello, I hope you
(02:23):
are doing well. I hope you have not been abducted.
If you have, I hope you are in close contact
with someone like Fox Molder. This is gonna be a
shorter episode since we've had some longer ones. This week.
But yes, let's talk aliens. What happened in Miami? Do
(02:44):
you remember this news story when this was such a
big sensation. I do, because some of the footage from it,
which I don't know if it was doctored or not,
But in that CBS Miami clip I just played, they
show it too, and there does look to be like
some shadowy figures, not what I would think of as
an alien. If I was there, it would have been like, oh,
interdimensional beings. But I'm equally as insane as some of
(03:10):
these people. So let's see how it was documented. This
is an article from Forbes dot com. Rumors of ten
foot alien and my Miami mall circulate online. Here's what
actually happened by Antonio Piceno the Fourth. Rumors and video
clips of panic, massive police presence, and what social media
(03:32):
users claim to be an eight to ten foot tall
alien appearing in a Miami mall cropped up online Friday.
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 police response. One
low quality clip circulating on social media allegedly shows a
(03:55):
tall alien creature walking between a dozen squad cars and
an area near Miami's Bayside Marketplace, though some users on
x formerly known as Twitter, have cast a 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
(04:16):
at the mall that involved several fights in loud fireworks
that caused a resident to report an active shooter, according
to NBC South Florida, provoking a large police presence. A
clearer video that closely matches the alleged alien clip actually
appears to be two to three people, likely police officers,
walking together between the squad cars and an area near
(04:38):
the mall, mixed in with alleged footage of the aliens,
where 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 report's
sounds came from fireworks. Four mails were detained during the
(04:59):
incident and faced charges including battery, grand theft, burglary, and
resisting an officer 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
(05:19):
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 twenty twenty three,
former intelligence official David Grush said in a congressional hearing
that non human biologics were at alleged crash sites that
(05:42):
he knew multiple colleagues injured injured by unidentified aerial phenomenon activity.
Grush also claimed the US government ran in decades long
program designed to collect and reverse engineer crashed identified aerial
phenomenon known as UAPs. The testimony in cited discourse on
social media around the existence of aliens. A few months later,
(06:06):
self proclaimed ufologist Jamie Mawson presented two fossilized bodies, Oh
they were so cute, he claimed, were human corpses to
Mexican Congress. However, Mussin's track record regarding the discovery of
extraterrestrial life hasn't been entirely solid. He participated in a
(06:26):
twenty seventeen report that showed alleged non human remains later
debunked as mummified child corpses. The video was posted by
Gaya dot com, a platform that charges ninety nine dollars
a year for paranormal and supernatural videos and one that
has been scrutinized as a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Hub House Oversight and Accountabilities of Committee held a historic
hearing on unidentified anoonyalist phenomena, also known as UFOs. Lawmakers
heard from three witnesses today, including former US military and
intelligence community personnel who claimed to have come into contact
with such objects. Natalie Brand has more now from that hearing.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Sing close to it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Retired Navy Commander David Fraver testified before Congress about an
encounter he cannot explain, a strange tic tac shaped object
he says he saw in the sky during a training
mission in two thousand and four.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
The technology that we faced was far superior than anything
that we had.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are digging into the national security
concerns and the mystery posed by unidentified anomalist phenomena or UAPs,
also known as UFOs.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Do you believe that our government is in possession of
UAPs absolutely.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Based on interviewing over forty witnesses or four years, I
know the exact locations.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
A whistleblower who formerly worked on the Defense Department's UAP
task Force, David Grush, claims he has denied access to
information on a government UFO crash retrieval program, something that
Pentagon disputes.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Biologics came with some of these recoveries.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Were they I guess human or non human?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Biologics non human and that was the assessment of people
which recknowledge on the program.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I talked to congress members from both sides of the
isle are demanding more transparency from the US Department of Defense.
Our recent report revealed the government is investigating more than
six hundred and fifty potential sightings that Ryan Graves of
Americans for Safe Aerospace says, there's still a stigma around
reporting right now.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
We need a system where pilots can report without fear
of losing their jobs.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The witnesses say better data is needed to determine what
the identified objects are and their origins. Natalie Brands CBS
News Capitol Hill, and.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Then we had all those drone sightings that just like
stopped where they were like, they're not a threat. We
don't know what they are. It was so weird. It
was such a bizarre period of time. People in New
Jersey were saying they saw like giant drones in their backyard.
So here's the FBI addressing that bus time has.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Expired to recognize jomen from Texas. Mister Gonzalez, thank you, chairman.
And you know, sometimes I feel like I'm in the
twilight zone up here, Like months after months, people come
before us, they testify, and you don't get a lot
of answers, and it's it's, uh, it's concerning, it's frustrating.
Uh you're telling me we don't know what the hell
(09:15):
these drones are in New Jersey, are Zach? I mean
that's crazy, that's madness that we don't know what these
drones are.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Sure the I mean this would be so if they
would shoot them all down, everything down are.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
The Bureau is actively investigating the situation you mentioned, just
the unexplained sighting of drone activity over over that part
of New Jersey, including proximity to sensitive sites and uh
areas of concern.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
So the.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
We do not attribute that to an individual or a
group yet we're in investigating, but I don't have an
answer of who's responsible for that of one or more
people that are responsible for those drone flights that we're
actively investigating. It is concerning there.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Is the public at risk?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Is public safety at risk?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Are we concerned?
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Are but various intentions.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Because either national security or a public safety incident that
would put Americans at risk.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
There is nothing that is known that would lead me
to say that, But we just don't know. And that's
the concerning part, the.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Fact that we have all right, good afternoon, everybody.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
A couple of.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Questions about the drums.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
There have been repeated drone sightings in the Northeast, especially
in New Jersey. They're flying at low altitudes.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
They're flying in flocks.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Has the President been briefed on this situation?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So we are certainly aware the president is where so
we're closely tracking inactivity and coordinating closely with relevant agency
including DHS and FBI to continue to investigate these incidents.
Don't have anything beyond that to share. Obviously, this is
something that DHS and FBI are tracking very very closely,
and so I would have to refer you to them directly.
(11:17):
But where keeping an eye out and looking into the
incidents that you just mentioned. But yeah, has the federal
government ruled out that these are controlled by foreign entities?
And do you know if they're conducting surveillance over so
I cannot make any any kind of predictions or comments
(11:38):
about that specifically from here. This is something that DHS
is looking at and FBI, so I would have to
refer you to them. I don't have anything beyond that
we're tracking this very closely. Obviously, we're all aware of
the incidents that have been reported. I'm not going to
go into what they could be or could not be
(11:59):
from here. That is something that obviously is being looked
at those respective agencies and times.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Which was the President briefed on this?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I don't have a timeline, but he certainly has been
made aware of this.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
What's the White House message that people out there who
are frustrated that there.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Isn't information and obviously we hear them, and we understand
that we are closely tracking this.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
We are monitoring the.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Incidents that are been put forward and certainly made public,
and we have to respect to two agencies that I've
already mentioned that are looking into this, working closely with
folks on the ground trying to get to the bottom
of it. I don't have anything more to share beyond that, so.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I just want to photow up on your comment or
you're yeah, isn't that weird? Isn't that like the weirdest
thing ever? And then we also had the whole Las
Vegas aliens thing, where like a UFO landed in a backyard.
This is from the ever reliable Inside Edition.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
It's a story that's gathered worldwide attention. Did as land
in the backyard of this Las Vegas home?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Recently we told you about that spooky situation in Las
Vegas when a flash in the sky was captured on video.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
The reports echoed those campy fifties sci fi movies about
alien invaders.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
This could be the beginning of the end.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
It started when a mysterious fireball lit up the Las
Vegas night sky, which was caught on a CoP's body.
Can Only Inside Edition is with the family who called
nine one one that night. Sixteen year old Angel Canmore
says he saw two creatures in his backyard and was
paralyzed with fear. His father and brother say they also
(13:36):
saw the creatures. You believe you saw something that wasn't
from this planet.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I believe this saw something.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yeah, that wasn't they from Earth?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Was this really an extraterrestrial sighting? The family says. Three
days after the encounter, a government vehicle showed up outside
the house with three men in black to investigate.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
This is an alien and you guys are from some
government agency trying to keep.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
It under reps. Guys was driving a black suburban with
you as government placement.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
They was passing around.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You know when we opened the garage, we went through
them there just run away.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Do you think that they were here to investigate?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
What is?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
When Las Vegas cops released the body cam footage, the
worldwide spotlight was thrust on the Kenmore family overnight. Total
strangers walked to their home wanting to see for themselves
the location of one of the most intriguing UFO sightings
in decades. We're in your backyard now since all of
this went public, have people been climbing over your fences?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Science writer and UFO skeptic Mick West has another explanation
for what the Kenmores could have seen that night. The raccoon,
which has great, big black eyes, could be.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
On top of the fence, and so what could mistake.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Now a raccoon, racoon coote.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Jumping out of the fence.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Do you think that that creature was an animal or
a raccoon?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
No, that was too big for bea raccoon.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Attorney sam Ryan Hadari represents the family.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
You have to appreciate the level of guests.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
The only thing they did it was reporting it to
the police. You've talked to the dad and the mom
and the two sons. Do you believe these people? I
believe that they believe that it was real.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
All right.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Back to Miami. Let's rewind a little bit. It's January first,
twenty twenty four, the night of the eight foot creatures.
So here's what we do know. Multiple people reported a
large disturbance at our near Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami.
Police showed up in massive numbers like riot squad, drone deployment,
entire street lockdown level response. Bystanders filmed video of heavily
(15:40):
armed officers swarming them all and surrounding streets. In some
video footage, it's believed you can hear people shouting things
like they're still in there, They're huge, they're not human.
The videos started going viral immediately, TikTok, Reddit, Twitter, every
weird corner of the Internet. The hashtag Miami alien exploded overnight.
(16:02):
One clip, Grainy, shadowy, weirdly cinematic shows a dark, tall
humanoid figure moving in a way that is not normal,
too fast, too smooth, and way too tall. Other alleged
footage shows two of them side by side. Some people
claim the creatures were ten feet tall with glowing eyes
and reflective skin. Some say they weren't aliens but inter
(16:24):
dimensional beings that would have been. That would have been
my vote. The footage is unclear, deliberately conveniently, who knows,
But the reaction was undeniable. People were panicked not because
of what they saw, but because of how fast it
was explained away the official story. Miami Pidy released a
statement saying there was no alien creature. It was just
(16:47):
fireworks related incident that got out of hand. I'm sorry,
but fireworks. You need a swat team and aerial drones
for fire works. Then why the helicopters, Why the lockdowns,
Why this cell service disruption in the area right after?
Why were news outlets scrubbing coverage within twenty four hours?
(17:07):
The cover up theory. This is where it gets a
little spicy. It wasn't fireworks. It was an encounter that
the public wasn't supposed to see. I mean, the aliens
should have gone to the mall if no one was
supposed to see the beings weren't alien but escaped biotech experiments.
I loved that they also chose to go to the mall.
(17:27):
Or and I love this one. It was a real event,
and the viral hoax angle was planted intentionally to drown
the truth in meme noise, a distraction via discrediting, make
it so weird, so memable, that anyone who brings it
up sounds like a lunatic see Denver Airport, Montalk literally
anything involving a lizard person. So what does this matter?
(17:50):
Even if you don't believe there were aliens at the mall?
You have to ask why did this story, as well
as the drones and the Las Vegas aliens, disappear so quickly,
And why are we so ready to dismiss things that
fall out of the sky outside of our normal bandwidth.
The truth is people did film something, people heard something,
and people saw something. And if we all get gasoled
(18:13):
into thinking it was just New Year's fireworks. Then we're
letting whoever controls the narrative dictate the boundaries of the
real So whether you think it was aliens, a viral
plant prank, or a glitch in the simulation, the Miami
Mall incidents reminds us that not all cover ups involve silence.
Some use noise. So much noise you stop listening, you
(18:35):
roll your eyes, you move on. But not here. We're
going to keep asking the weird questions because even if
the truth isn't out there, the story sure as hell is.
So what do you think? Do you think they were
aliens at the mall? I'm hopeful. One of my favorite
memes I've ever made is from Earth Girls Are Easy,
(18:58):
where they're all driving around in a convertible and it says,
showing our aliens the cheesecake factory. So no showing our
aliens the fancy mall with the cheesecake factory. I think
I really want there to be aliens. I also don't
want them to come to Earth, because like we would,
we would try and show everything that comes into the
sky we try and shoot down. That's why the whole
(19:19):
drone thing is so unbelievable to me. But if you
want a full episode on the drones because there's so much,
so much more to that, or the UAP hearings or
how it all just disappeared, let me know. I know
this was a short and weird one, but I figured
it was a good middle of the week way to
lighten things up. Let me know your thoughts. Thank you
(19:42):
so much for listening to another episode of Broad's next Door.
I hope you are enjoying season four. So far, we
have the Osborns turning forty mall aliens. Tomorrow, we have
Luke Goebel coming on to talk about Luigi Mangioni and
his upcoming book, Killed Dick. Luke's book, not Luigi's Luigi.
(20:05):
You write a book too for us. Send me your
Luigi memes. Friday, we have the Portland serial Killer next week.
I don't know yet because I haven't recorded anything, but
we do have an insane heat wave coming to Portland
where it's going to be ninety eight degrees on Friday,
ninety seven degrees on Saturday, ninety six degrees on Sunday,
(20:26):
and then like ninety degrees for four days, which is
just insane for the Pacific Northwest. We do not have
central air here. My little air conditioner unit like glue,
a confuse, popped a gasket whatever. However, electricity works one
hundred times last week, so I am not looking forward
to it. I am actually dreading it very very much.
(20:48):
But I love talking to you, and you can find
me online at Danielliscrama online at Broad's next door, and
I will talk to you tomorrow by eight
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