#UFOSA sighting, crash site is an elaborate marketing campaign by FutureLife, Clover

Twitter was in a state of confusion over the past weekend in South Africa, when people started reporting UFO sightings around the country. Images and videos, along with the hashtag #UFOSA, caught what appeared to be a green light hovering over Sandton, Johannesburg as well as parts of Cape Town and Durban.

While theorists suggested it to be part of a marketing campaign for HSBC Cape Town Sevens to take place in December, others naturally pointed to aliens. Now that South Africans have finally discovered the “crash site”, it seems we have finally uncovered the truth.

Fact or Fiction? Aliens spotted in Cape Town aka the "Mother City"! #UFOSA 👽 https://t.co/coRRwArqZd pic.twitter.com/yfTUrmx7fa

— Leandri J van Vuuren (@Lean3JvV) November 29, 2015

A “crash site” was discovered in Sandton on Monday morning, with what seemed like a flying saucer surrounded by a group of surveyors wearing hazmat suits and a film crew.

This scene would look waaaaaaay different if this thing crashed in Soweto. #UFOSA pic.twitter.com/1yKEOJDmxh

— DonovanGoliath (@DonovanGoliath) December 1, 2015

#ufosa its here??? @JacaNews @LeanneManas @News24 @MbalulaFikile pic.twitter.com/Pf1Poy6y5a

— Morne Stander (@mornestander) December 1, 2015

To the disappointment of conspiracy theorists and District 9 diehards though, #UFOSA appears to be part of an elaborate marketing campaign by Clover and FutureLife, to promote a new “on-the-go smart snack” called Smart Drink.

Future life and clover are handing out their drinks #UFOSA @Sandton_News pic.twitter.com/5pvXkgBiMT

— Andrei Van Wyk (@AndreiVW) December 1, 2015

Tweeting from the official account today, Smart Drink SA, the “smart drink of the future” is confirmed to have “just landed”.

We’re at the #UFOSA site. Look what we found! Introducing Smart Drink from Clover & Future Life! pic.twitter.com/Jna16yIImN

— Smart Drink SA (@SmartDrinkSA) December 1, 2015

And here it is, the final product:

The Smart drink of the future from Clover and Futurelife has landed. #UFOSA #JoziLanding pic.twitter.com/Ggd1YJ2ySZ

— Smart Drink SA (@SmartDrinkSA) December 1, 2015

We’re yet to discover a “crash site” in the Mother City or Durban though, but the Memeburn team will keep its ears to the ground.