“The Nevada Test and Training Range is an area where the Air Force tests and trains combat aircraft. “The United States Air Force is aware of the Facebook post,” said an Air Force spokesperson in a statement to Yahoo News. While those in the group are having a laugh about the idea of investigating extraterrestrial activity, the military says it’s aware of the event and is taking it seriously. “People will need plenty of water, good health insurance, and possibly a lawyer.” “Those that try to reach it will find that it is remote, rugged and quite far removed from public roadways,” Aftergood told Yahoo News. Image from the "Storm Area 51" Facebook group outlining a mock plan of attack.Ĭlassification policy and national security expert Steven Aftergood said the idea of storming Area 51 was a “social media concoction” and cast doubt that droves of people would show up to the site, for reasons not least of which is the base’s isolated, arid location. “I just thought it would be funny and get me some thumbsy uppies on the internet." "Hello US government, this is a joke, and I do not actually intend to go ahead with this plan,” reads a disclaimer on a pinned post outlining a strategy for storming the base.
“If we naruto run,” reads the event page, referencing an anime meme of running with your head forward and arms back, “we can move faster than their bullets. 20 at 3 a.m., and another 1.2 million have said they’re interested. Over the ensuing weeks, 1.6 million people RSVPed to claim they’re attending the event, scheduled for Sept.
The group was started by a public meme page and a Twitch video game streamer who goes by the screen name SmyleeKun. government is engaged in extraterrestrial research. Late last month, an event named “Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us” popped up on the social media platform, searching for recruits to meet in Amargosa Valley and rush an area named Area 51, part of the Nevada Test and Training Range, where conspiracy theorists allege the U.S. The truth is out there - or at least that's the belief the viral, and farcical, Facebook event "Storm Area 51" is peddling.
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