UFOs are just square spotlights.
"It is said that the houses on a road in a village over there in the Qinling Mountains are all gone. Some people say that they saw several flashing planes parked in the village for a while and then disappeared, and the house disappeared with them. Now there is an army investigation there and the news is blocked. " 10 June 13, this post was widely reprinted in Weibo and became the most shocking online post of the day.
It was not until the local reporter rushed to Xianyang to cover the matter that the truth revealed was ridiculous. It turns out that the so-called UFO is just the spotlight of Yintai Square in Xianyang City.
How did the rumor come about?
Although the mystery of UFO has been solved, it did not immediately stop the distorted spread of this incident on the local network. Before the village post disappeared in June 5438+1October 65438+March, the reporter found that the origin of such a big rumor was actually just an ordinary netizen signature.
10, 1 1, 15: 37, a netizen Zhang Lixing wrote on his signature: "Something strange happened at the foot of Qinling Mountain", which was the simple sentence and became the beginning of the rumor later. 12, 17: 08, the netizen "NDSWJ" posted Weibo: "A diary about" strange things in Qinling "was still circulated in Xi 'an this morning! "13 at 0 1: 03 am, the netizen" ghost contractor "posted on Baidu Post Bar:" It is said that an entire village has disappeared, and now the army has intervened. It is said that several UFOs were seen flying by when the incident happened. "
By the morning of 13, this kind of information had begun to spread wildly through forums, douban, Weibo and other channels. There are many versions of netizens' rumors about the cause of the incident, such as savage, UFO, nuclear, snake, wasp, giant salamander, alien and so on. In the meantime, there are constantly communicators adding plots to the received information and spreading it again, which makes the content of the net posts more and more rich and complicated.