Some Orange County citizens were surprised Thursday, Sept. 21, when TV programming was suddenly interrupted for around a minute with an ominous message prophesying the end of the world.
These ominous warning messages displayed on mainstream TV channels and affected Spectrum and Cox cable users. Some of the warning videos have been uploaded on YouTube.
Some of the warning videos have been uploaded on YouTube contains a terrified, breathless 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…”
Erin Mireles (viewer), said that the message gave her a fear because it displayed at a higher volume than the program she was watching, however, she thought it was a hoax so she wasn’t too concerned.
Engineers reportedly shut down the alert as soon as they became informed of it, a spokesperson for cable TV company Cox said.
“We have confirmed that we were fed an incorrect audio file,”
Cox and Spectrum are both investigating who was responsible for the warning and whether it was broadcast inadvertently or on purpose.
This is not the first time when TV shows have been hacked to display unrelated footage.