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This is just like anything else, where one person comes up with something somewhat plausible sounding, and then everyone else uses it, and now suddenly there is "proof" because so many people are saying the same thing. We've seen it countless times in the past few years, where someone says something in media, then everyone else reports on it, and suddenly it is a fact because so many places reported on it. But somehow alien stuff, that's cool?
I totally agree with you. Human capacity for mass hysteria, mass illusion, mass belief in something that isn't actually happening knows no bounds and it's been well documented. We just saw millions of people put a drug dealer who had an overdose death onto a Jesus-like pedestal while raging against an entire race and an entire profession for being responsible for it.
However it makes a ton of biological sense that a creature that secretes waste would also have an ammonia smell from it, and that they'd give it off when frightened (not unlike how a human might piss themselves). Doesn't mean it's true, but it makes sense.