ORLANDO, Fla. — A fistfight at the Disney Springs dining and entertainment complex at Disney World that was misinterpreted as gunshots caused visitors to panic late Friday, authorities and witnesses said.

People were screaming, running, hiding and crying, said Ariana Landi, who said she was eating dinner with her parents and boyfriend at Bongos Cuban Cafe when people started yelling, “Shots fired.”

Not true, authorities said.

“Rumors of a shot fired at Disney Springs FALSE,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Office tweeted about 10:25 p.m. “Fight over. Order restored.”

The conflict that triggered the chaos started about an hour earlier. A fight on Bongos’ second floor created loud noise that was misinterpreted as a gunshot, said Deputy Lourdes Clayton, an Orange County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman.

People scrambled over tables and ducked down where they could find cover, Landi said.

Another witness, Gertrudis Amaya, said she was walking with her son when she saw “a wave of people” running toward her. She said she heard someone say there was a bomb.

Amaya picked up her son, who is recovering from surgery, and ran into a store with a crowd of other people and hid, she said. The hysteria spread quickly via social media.

“People were just trying to run and get out as fast as they could because they didn’t know what was going on,” Landi said.

One person was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, Clayton said.

Brett Clark, a tourist from Chicago, was with family on the second floor of Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe when they heard multiple pops that sounded like gunshots or firecrackers and hid in the women’s restroom, he said.

“It was a frightening experience,” Clark said. “Grateful it wasn’t more serious.”

After a while, Disney employees told people everything was OK and they began to disperse, Amaya said. But the incident left her shaken.

“Everybody’s scared,” the Hollywood, Fla., woman said. “I am nervous. My heart is faster.”

Reedy Creek Fire and Rescue Deputy Chief Eric Ferrari said his agency received a report of a shooter at Disney Springs — formerly known as Downtown Disney — that turned out to be “a total false alarm.”

“It was over before anything started,” he said.

The only injury he said he was aware of was someone who had a cut on the foot, but he didn’t know how the person got hurt.