It looks like posts aren't loading tonight. So who posted something earthshaking and got the site shutdown?
Remember when someone posted an image of a reptilian on 4chan, and within 2 minutes the whole site went down? After it came up, all images of the reptilian were gone.
Anyway, I'm sure this is just a coincidence, but it reminded me of that incident.
Oh shit I remember this now (your mention of people claiming it made them ill reminded me of it). OMG, I wanna see that so bad now. Tablespoon of salt for sure, but after seeing the Pfizer frog throat guy, it's a little less far fetched.
EDIT: just found this article about it:
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/02/possible-reptilian-photo-allegedly-brings-down-4chan/
I put it at as a maybe in my list of possibilities. I've never seen aliens, but I've seen flying saucers in broad daylight, so I know there is some weird shit out there.