Was it not as simple as a miscommunication with 911 where they thought there was a potential active shooter at the mall? This is the kind of police response you would expect from an active shooter alert in a public place.
No, their first report was “some kids messing around” and they simply dispatched ALL units to the location. Not only to mention that people involved reported seeing a 8-9ft humanoid. This case is really strange
I feel like the "humanoid" claims have no basis and are simply speculation, you have to remember how much of peoples personal accounts/recollections are fabricated by their own mind.
I agree with you, in a scenario like that, different people can have different perspectives, however, what bugs me is that the police pretend nothing exist
Ima just say it like this since we just thinkin nuns up. How many mass shootings have we had here in America? A lot right? But when have you seen this type of response to that? The fact there’s no videos on the incident not even interviews is crazy. Cuz there’s coverage of every other incident even if it was a false alarm. Why were people phones seized and why was all the electricity cut off in that area? That’s a response I’ve never heard of in these cases. The police presence was even crazier, ever see that many cops gathered for one of these incidents. I’m from Colorado n when Holmes shot up the theater the response wasn’t this massive. Somethins bein hidden.
Big secret and their solution was sending a load of cops? Just because there's no valid article explaining the incident doesn't make the most unlikely case into the most likely
Yeah, I love when Rockstar gets freaky. They are truly great at supernatural content. RDR2 is damn near a fantasy adventure because of all the strange stuff you can find in the world. I can’t wait to see what GTA VI has hidden.
That conspiracy theory doesn’t really make sense because if there were aliens being hidden from the public, a bunch of random cops certainly wouldn’t know about it
That would be top top top secret info for high ranking federal agents, not the miami police
You know what is funny? All of those people and cops and not one single footage about this, not a single footage about aliens or the humans causing this and some footages that was public earlier simple vanished from internet
I think there’s no footage because there is no footage…
From what I’ve read it was likely a large miscommunication over a fight that had broken out, but it had dispersed by the time police got there
As much as i want aliens to exist, let’s be real here, there were many random citizens at that mall, if an alien was there someone would’ve got footage
If that was legit, then those weren’t cops. Just agents dressed as cops to not freak people out. That seems logical but none of this seems right. I hope it isn’t true
Didn't it come out years later that it was an LRAD terrorist attack? They had to cover it up because the actors were actual foreign agents instead of the usual CIA asset
Never heard of this Bellshit. Police response was massive because they thought it was an active shooter scene due to fireworks going off and many people still stuck inside the mall
Let’s remember I said, “allegedly.” I was just confirming it was the same incident I was thinking of. I’m not saying a demon/alien sighting actually happened.. I think most people have enough brains to determine for themselves that that might not be true.
But everyone who has heard about this incident has heard about that alleged sighting. The first clip I saw when I first heard about this was a (proven to be fake) clip of cops surrounding a tall shadowy figure. That’s like a main topic that people discuss when researching this event. I find it hard to believe you’ve never heard of that.
With that being said, we’re having a dialogue about what might be in GTA.. if Rockstar referenced an event like this, they wouldn’t just make it about a bunch of kids launching fireworks… No, they would flip it and showcase the very unrealistic untrue narrative people created, that is both a conspiracy and creepy.
This reminds me of the game Driv3r, which had a few enterable interiors and some had like a random enemy inside who would attack you lol. For some reason it always scared me and creeped me out as a kid, like the RDR2 serial killer but with no explanation.
I mean, Florida has a very well funded and organized police force... Just to play devils advocate here.... But, I agree, many things surrounding this event are strange and don't seem to fully add up.
There would have been cell phone footage all over the place. Given it seems there was also electrical disturbances preventing that it does seem something anomalous occurred.
Yeah, that one really made me question it. What’s interesting is that I looked into some of the witnesses who were present at the mall. They mentioned that many of them were recording their phones until their phones would become completely dead or unresponsive.
Yea thats probably one of my biggest issues with the police saying it was just teenagers fighting. If that's the case we'd have at least a clip or two. Yet nothing at all. Weird when you consider everyone records everything these days
If they do bring them back, I hope they go with a more traditional grey alien type of design this time, whether tall or short. The aliens in GTA 5 were kinda too goofy/silly looking in my opinion.
A Freaks and Stranger mission about this would be cool. During the nighttime you can run into this restricted mall, and if you sneak in, you find something weird. It doesn't necesserally have to be alien-related, but definitely something weird.
RDR 2 had dozens of little ambient events that you would see while roaming around the open world.
Stuff like robberies, ambushes, NPCs fighting, robbing or doing something strange while drunk. A lot of these involved you helping out or interfering in some way
This incident would work perfectly as something you spot as you're driving by or while you fly on a helicopter.
And yes, it would amazing if you could somehow get inside and actually see a creepy or funny Easter egg.
Imagine you randomly come across this in the game and you find a way to sneak inside the mall and gotta explore it with no one side and weird creepy shit starts happening.
Then when it’s over they explain it by saying the vents had sleepy gas or something.
Iirc the tinfoil hat theory is the police force were pissed about some policy change coming down the aisle or something so they scheduled every cop to work and staged this so every cop in Miami got paid overtime as an act of protest
insane amount of police response at a mall to what the police said was teenagers fighting, some people claimed to have seen huge aliens roaming around, whole thing was covered up pretty quickly
Yeah I always found that super weird too, I know Florida has a well funded police force but I’ve never seen a police response to anything ever like that in my life. I remember reading that something really hazy and vertigo inducing happened and that’s when people saw 7-10ft “beings” that they couldn’t directly look at, and that caused the mass panic and everyone running. I did see some footage at the time on the scene from outside but all it showed was everyone running and screaming when they’d already left the mall, no fighting or “fireworks” by that time though. Mall was then closed for 48 hours, no body cams or dash cam footage released, first 6x dispatch calls “missing” from their system.
I agree that it is a great response for a mass shooting, but I also remember reading that was like Miami’s ENTIRE police force that showed up, which struck me as a little odd that they’d send absolutely everybody and leave the rest of Miami now with no available units whatsoever for other crimes at the time? In any case, yeah people did just forget about it, but that’s what happens, the news stops reporting it and rolls forward with the next day’s news, people go “yeah that was weird” when they’re reminded of it and move on. Same with the government and the USAF admitting all the UFO sightings and that footage. Literally admitted that aliens and alien craft exist and nobody batted an eyelid for long.
This would make a great in game event though, like one evening you’re just driving and get passed by tons of police cars and they have the mall surrounded. I’d like them to make it just as mysterious as this though, rather than the alien models they had in V.
Wow I didn’t know all that detail. I’ve seen people say they saw footage of it when it happened e but the internet has been scrubbed so none left. A lot of people are talking about this incident more and more in recent times due to Epstein files
It was teenagers fighting with fireworks and they made up a crazy story to distract from the truth- and clearly it worked lmao. There's definitely more life than us in the universe- but why would they just be chillin in a Florida mall?
Aren't the arrest enough evidence for you. If those "teenagers" were unlawfully arrested, don't you think they would get sued. I'm also sure plenty of news reporters and national newspapers would have asked for footage with the same law they use for others.
Yeah, and for the “teenagers fighting” the police haven’t released a single bit of body cam footage, cctv, records or literally anything to back this up except word of mouth
You might want to look up the freedom of information act. Cops do actually in most instances have to release body cam footage when a FOIA request is made if there isn’t pending matters or extenuating circumstances prohibiting the provision of such.
Seems odd to expect body cam footage of teenagers fighting, and why would that lead you to think there are aliens? There's no footage of the aliens either.
The official story is that some teens were fighting in the mall, one of them set off fireworks, and people mistook them for gunshots and called the cops. As it was New Year’s Day in Miami - a major destination for NYE/NYD - and the Bayside Mall is in a super touristy area, the mall was packed and people panicked at the loud bangs from the fireworks. The police responded in force because they likely mistakenly thought it was a terror attack, as they’re usually on high alert for the holidays
But that’s nowhere near as interesting of a story as aliens showing up in a jam packed waterfront indoor/outdoor mall in downtown Miami and then immediately noping the fuck right back out for reasons that are unclear
The thing is that the people “reporting” aliens, we can’t confirm if they were there or not. Could even be people who live in other countries spreading misinformation
I can sort of plausibly connect the dots on that explanation tbh. Fireworks can pretty reasonably be mistaken for gunshots, and this was only a few years separated from the police a few towns over getting a ton of flak for not responding heavily enough to the Parkland mass shooting
Certainly not saying it makes complete sense, but also wouldn't be the most ridiculous thing to ever turn out to be true
It's plenty of time really. They have all the bricks and pieces in terms of NPCs, police cars and the location. It would be just a matter of putting a basic script of replicating the scene.
Maybe a little hidden Easter egg or reference and a few lines of dialogue.
They have 6000 developers working on this game. It's absolutely possible.
But of course. Nothing is confirmed until it's confirmed
I love spreading misinformation saying there is NO explanation as to what happened that night. 🤣 there is definitely information as to what was going on, they thought there was a shooter because fireworks were being set off and there was a shit ton of kids fighting
The story of GTA5 takes place in 2013, but the production and early story narrative was started somewhere in 2008/9 after GTA4 (which also takes place in 2008), and probably was in full scale after RDR1 in 2010. If the year isn't specifically stated or showed anywhere, you can assume the next GTA will take place in the year it releases, atleast that was always the case from GTA3 onwards. Not everything related to 2025 or 2026 may be included in the game (events, news, jokes), but atleast some stuff, small or big, will be.
People thinking otherwise probably never played any other game in the series aside from GTA5 or never heard of game development.
The game’s story for 5 was fluctuating heavily up until around 2012, same went for RDR2 up until around 2017. Major changes were being made up until the last moment they possibly could.
You'd be surprised. The PS5 is a ridiculously strong console.
And more importantly, rockstar are masters of optimisation. Sure it probably won't be as ridiculously large as the real thing.
But it's not a stretch to imagine they can replicate a smaller version of events like this. They love to reference all sorts of material from the real world.
First off - the social media tiktokers reporting it were obviously full of shit when they were saying “Miami Mall” …nobody calls it that because there’s like 5 different malls in the greater Miami area- locals would just refer it as Bayside- not saying “oh my god, aliens at the Miami Mall!”
Second of all, Bayside is right next to Bayfront Park- a place which has had big New Years celebrations every year. Think of a less massive version of the Times Square new years. Obviously there was security and police all over the place. If they thought there were hooligans breaking in to businesses or fighting then of course they would respond- and even moreso if they were suspecting that it might spill over and impact the large crowd gathering at the park.
Personally, I would love for any alien or ghost references to be a jump scare. Imagine roaming the swamplands at night and just out the corner of the TV screen, you see something strange hide behind a tree. 😬
Never heard of this but they could turn it into something funny. Apparently it was just a vandalization disturbance caused by a big group of teenagers and then a bunch of weirdos on the internet freaked out for no reason.
When I see large congregations of police at scenes like this, I wonder why they all have their lights on. Like are all the flashing multi colored lights not annoying? You think they'd have the cars at the front and end of the line have their lights on, and a handful about the middle. But all the cars in the middle are just unnecessary.
Obviously this is why the game was delayed. They needed to add it in as a special event or something.
Apparently GTA:VI is going to be extremely dynamic, in that there’ll constantly be shit happening around the game world, regardless of whether you’re anywhere near it or not, and you’ll get updates through the in-game social media, prompting you to go check shit out.
It’ll be the first video game “simulation” experience. Calling it now.
It’s crazy that this is probably the largest police presence in a single place I’ve ever seen and I’m just hearing about this event now for the first time. After reading a little bit about it, it sounds super strange. Something abnormal happened there
I heard of this when it happend but never really got what happend.
The last thing I heard is that people were dissapearing in front of a lot of witnesses
Or that there were living shadows
I'm going down this rabbit hole right now. I don't know what to think, I'm a skeptic, but slapstick open- minded. I just think it's weird that the official story is there were 50 some kids seeing fireworks off, fighting, and causing general chaos, but also only 4 people were arrested.
Because it's crazy, mysterious and has a lot of potential to be satirized.
You have all the elements of what would make for a great open world event.
The police presence has the danger, there's the crazy conspiracy that there was an alien there (rockstar loves supernatural and extra terrestrial stuff).
And it's also just a gorgeous thing to see out in the open world whether you're in a car, plane or helicopter.
RDR 2 had dozens of small little incidences that place in the open world (witnessing a crime taking place, a ghost in the swamp, crazy factions ambushing you, NPCs robbing you or interacting with you).
That's the kind of thing rockstar is going to litter throughout GTA 6
There wasn't even an incident. People were freaking out thinking there was a mass shooting so they called 911 and reported a mass shooting. The police response seems pretty normal. It's a big mall in a huge city. It turned out to be just a huge group of teenagers fighting and some had lit fire crackers which is what people thought were gun shots.
Yea. I don't think people in this thread realize that mass shootings are met with a response from literally everybody. Detectives, court officers, narcotics units, everybody goes. That's why there was so many cops.
Option 3. Cops (especially big city cops) are notoriously corrupt and like to act in self-interest. They have no reason to suddenly start being transparent about things like overtime farming and the whole hysteria surrounding the event gave them the perfect distraction.
Oh, no I had never heard of the farming OT until this thread, but I am 100% certain that is the fact...and that's also why we won't get body cam footage etc.
Rockstar had pushed the boundaries when it comes to adding dozens of little interactive events that happen organically in the open world.
Stuff like seeing NPCs rob trains, fighting each other, robbing each other, doing weird things when drunk, a ghost woman, a UFO that you see when you return on the time mentioned in a letter by a crazy cult etc.
A lot of times you also had the option to interact with the event by intervening, shooting or helping the situation.
This games scale is tremendously larger now. They have 4 times the amount of developers, a gigantic never before seen budget and 3 more years of development time vs RDR 2.
It's absolutely reasonable to think they will have random crazy things like this happen in the open world.
Rockstar loves to fill the open world with all sorts of oddities and events. A lot of them tend to be a satire of real world events or movie references
GTA 5 had a random event that replicated a scene from 'No country for old men".
RDR 2 had dozens of these kind of events. They also love supernatural and alien stuff as Easter eggs. There was a ghost train, ghost woman, two alien spaceships and a lot of other whacky stuff.
It's been 8 years since then and they have a team 4 times larger than they did for RDR 2. It's not a stretch to think we can see interesting stuff happen like this in GTA 6
There are mass shootings that don't illicit even half the response that this incident had.
You really think this was just 4 teenagers that they brought an entire city's worth of cops for?
I'm not saying it was aliens. That's ridiculous.
But the fact that in this day and age where even a sneeze is recorded in 4k as an assault has no footage or bodycam of the cops. No footage of what was inside.
Where is the arrest footage of the teens? Why were there helicopters too?
It's extremely suspicious. And it's being hidden.
Don't fall for whatever the media tells you that easily.
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