Call to raid Area 51 draws hordes of alien hunters on Facebook
Half a million people have signed up for a Facebook event to "storm" the restricted military base in southeastern Nevada, which has captivated generations of conspiracy theorists convinced that the 4,000-square-mile patch of desert might hold advanced technology from space aliens who have visited our planet.
The call to join the event — labeled "Storm Area 51: They Can't Stop All of Us" — is a presumably playful invitation for a volunteer army to raid the Air Force base around dawn Sept. 20.
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Lazar and his claims have experienced a resurgence recently. He is the subject of a new Netflix documentary on Area 51 and was interviewed by popular YouTuber and podcaster Joe Rogan in June. This interview has already been viewed over 6 million times, which may have prompted the Storm Area 51 meme.
"[Area 51] is an open training range for the US Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces. The US Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets."
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