St. Petersburg Pier

He's a sports reporter at WSN Channel 12 here in Milwaukee.

It's a video of the St. Petersburg Pier, and it's just all Brewers fans.

The invasion's underway, Gabe.

Yeah.

And there was a, uh ...

I walk o- often on the, the St. Pete Pier, which is this beautiful pier right on the Tampa Bay.

The Gulf of America coast.

Correct.

UFO enthusiasts around the world will be disappointed to learn that despite a current popular online rumor...

The St. Petersburg pier was not once home to an alien landing that has since been covered up by the U.S. government.

The online buzz began building this weekend when someone uploaded...

when someone uploaded a first-hand account written and illustrated by a mysterious author of a supposed 1977 St. Petersburg close encounter of the third kind.

The materials include typed and handwritten accounts of a UFO landing in St. Petersburg in 1977. with corresponding sketches that depict spacemen, Revelations-styled five-headed beasts, and a drawing of a tornado emanating beams of light over the St. Petersburg pier.

However, what the author actually witnessed was a then groundbreaking art installation, and he was not the only one to mistake it for extraterrestrial activity.

In the 1970s, Rockne Krebs was a highly sought-after artist, the first to popularize the use of laser lights as public art.

On that day, a tornado whipped through Pasco County.