NBC’s thriller Science Fiction series The Event continues was cancelled by NBC. battle with the ratings. On one Monday, the episode had 3.7 million viewers overall. That number was a reported drop from the week before by 15%.

Rumours of The Event’s imminent cancellation had been floating around for months during its first season.

However, is the problem with The Event really about ratings?

It seems that the creators of The Event have been using certain popular conspiracy theories as the basis for the show. The Event’s main plot line involves extraterrestrials that look like human beings who have, over time, infiltrated human society and government. Similar theories have been circulating around the Internet for years. Dr. Micheal Salla, in particular, who has become well known on the net for his arguments that such types of alien infiltration are responsible for all global conflict and wars.

Dr. Salla even goes a bit further than The Event, claiming that many different extraterrestrial races are currently interacting with humankind.

Dr. Salla had published an article on Examiner.com that NBC‘s ‘The Event’ is “Hiding the truth in plain sight”.

So was The Event cancelled on account of its low ratings? Or did the conspiracy series getting a just little to close to the “truth”?

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