Dead Drop: Keep the UFO News Cycle Coming

The internet is piecing together an alleged UFO crash landing place in Brazil on Wednesday , with convincing grounds . Here ’s aReddit thread , aTwitter videoat dark , aTwitter videoin the daytime , and even a close - upYouTube videoof the suspected spacecraft on Earth — although , upon further somebody - crushing review , the physical object search a lot like a flux bowlful or a colander .

The Brazilian outlet UOLreportedthat neither the local flak department nor military constabulary recorded the result , andaccording toGlobo , the metropolis allege on Wednesday that no officials had adjoin them about the incident .

VICEhas reportedthat the # MageUFO hashtag took off and then mysteriously disappeared . ( Twitter has not respond to Gizmodo ’s request for comment . ) Redditors take down that Magé threadswere also wiped , to which an roentgen / flying saucer moderator respond :

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The current mods were specifically necessitate to curate this wedge because it was a full cesspool of repeats , fraudulence , youtube monetised scraps , repeats , know imposter , repeats , and did I mention repeat ? If you find that not to your liking , go to the other hoagy .

If ET crash in Rio , every TV station on the planet will have footage . Do n’t be so damn silly .

But what about thisGoogle mapsimage showing theUFO landing place internet site as a livid hole ? Speaking to VICE , Google explicate that this is a “ common phenomenon ” in which the sun has ponder off a building to “ in brief blind the satellite . ” It ’s sadly unconvincing that the Google map would have been updated as of yesterday .