An incident at a Miami shopping mall which resulted in the arrest of four teenagers earlier this week has sparked the spread of a bizarre theory on social media which suggests the alleged presence of aliens at the Florida establishment.

More than 60 police cars swarmed the Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami on Monday night to shut down a fight involving a group of teenagers who were also throwing fireworks at each other in the open-air shopping mall.

Four teenagers were arrested in connection to the incident, as reported by local WPLG-TV. According to the suspects’ arrest reports mentioned by the television station, the juveniles were “causing a riot inside the mall” and “causing panic.”

But the sheer amount of police deployment to address the incident has raised suspicions among many on social media that the case might have involved more than just teenagers.

A viral video of an incident at the Bayside Market Place shopping mall in Miami has sparked a slew of claims from conspiracy theorists that a mysterious creature was spotted in the footage.
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Some who analyzed footage of the scene outside the Miami mall on Monday have developed the theory that an alien “creature” was the real cause of the disturbance.

One account on X, formerly known as Twitter, which promotes “red pill” cinema (with the red pill, a concept taken from the Matrix, having come to represent, especially within alt-right communities, the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling truth), claimed the footage showed “10ft Aliens/Creatures (caught on camera?)” which “fired at inside and outside Miami Mall.”

The post reached over 99,500 views on the social media platform, showing the impact of the theory.

“I zoomed in on one of the tiktok videos about the Miami mall creature, so you can see the gray creature walking in between these police cars and the building,” wrote another user on the platform, sharing a video of the Monday incident.

This is a breaking news story and will be later updated.