California TV Broadcasts Were Interrupted By Mysterious Alien Invasion Messages - "Extremely Violent Times Will Come"
Wow! It's been awhile since I've heard of anyone hacking into a TV broadcast system! But, it happened on Thursday morning when a lot of people in the Orange County area of California were treated to some emergency alert messages warning of an alien invasion and that the apocalypse was coming.
One video of the broadcast was uploaded to YouTube and it features a terrified voice saying:
“The space program made contact with... They are not what they claim to be. They have infiltrated a lot of, uh, a lot of aspects of military establishment, particularly Area 51. The disasters that are coming—the military—I’m sorry the government knows about them...”
Watch it below:
According to Gizmodo, the audio comes from a call that Art Bell, the host of the conspiracy theory-themed radio show Coast to Coast AM, received in 1997 from a man claiming to be a former Area 51 employee.
Another unauthorized faked emergency broadcast features a different voice warning that "extremely violent times will come." One person who heard it told the Orange Country Register:
"It almost sounded like Hitler talking. It sounded like a radio broadcast coming through the television."
Another woman said:
“I was definitely startled, ’cause the volume increased exponentially. I wasn’t alarmed in the sense of thinking something was wrong, ’cause I assumed it was some sort of hack. My channel changed back to Bravo after a couple minutes.”
Cox and Spectrum are currently investigating who sent out the alert, which was obviously a prank, and what a great prank it was! Someone just trying to replicate the same kind of fear that Orson Wells' 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast had on people. I wish I would have experienced it when it popped up!
I don't know, I think this whole thing is kinda cool. What do you think? Here's another recording.