Storm Area 51

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Well, if mi jefe de Hombres de Armas is in, I must follow.



Machete Star Danny Trejo Joins the Area 51 Raid (https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/07/15/area-51-raid-facebook-event-aliens-danny-trejo/)
By JENNA ANDERSON - July 15, 2019 04:57 pm EDT

The Internet is attempting to organize an event unlike any other, with over a million people volunteering on Facebook to storm the Air Force's secretive Area 51 base. Quite a lot of memes have spun out of this ordeal, including one from beloved actor Danny Trejo. On Monday, Trejo took to Twitter to share a screenshot of himself from Machete Kills in Space, with the caption that this would be him after leaving Area 51.


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Trejo, whose filmography also includes everything from From Dusk Til Dawn to The Flash, has become a sort of cult icon

For the uninitiated, Area 51 is a section of the Edwards Air Force Base in the Nevada desert. For decades, it's never been abundantly clear exactly what the base does, outside of evidence that it has been used to create experimental aircraft and weapons systems. Some have believed that the base is secretly hiding proof of extraterrestrial life, either through studying a crashed UFO or attempting to contact a new one.

The Area 51 movement has spun out of a viral Facebook event, which is appropriately named "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us". The page suggests that a giant group of people attempt to visit and "Naruto run" their way into the secretive military base and find out what extraterrestrial information they have.

"We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry." the event's description reads. "If we [Naruto] run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens."

While the event is clearly a joke, the sheer number of people responding to it has since garnered an official response from the Air Force, who are apparently "ready to protect" the base should the event actually come to fruition.

“[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,” Air Force spokesperson Laura McAndrews said in a statement (via Yahoo). “The US Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets”.

The "Storm Area 51" event is theoretically scheduled for September 20th, and there's no telling if anyone will actually turn their digital RSVP into action. If they do, maybe Trejo will be a source of inspiration for them.

What do you think of Danny Trejo's take on the "Storm Area 51" event? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below!

THREADS
UFOs, space aliens & qigong (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70620-UFOs-space-aliens-amp-qigong)
Man at Arms: Art of War (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70140-Man-at-Arms-Art-of-War-Original-Series-from-EL-REY-Network-with-Gene-Ching)
Machete Kills Again... In Space! (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70615-Machete-Kills-Again-In-Space!)

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Storm Area 51 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?71398-Storm-Area-51) deserves its own thread, distinct from UFOs, space aliens & qigong (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70620-UFOs-space-aliens-amp-qigong).


As Area 51 raid becomes a joke online, the U.S. Air Force issues a real warning (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/area-51-raid-becomes-joke-online-u-s-air-force-n1031176)
The U.S. Air Force warned Friday against visiting the secretive base, saying that "any attempt to illegally access the area is highly discouraged."

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Groom Road or 51 Road is a dirt road that leads from Nevada Route 375 to the restricted area known as Area 51 on June 27, 2010, near Rachel, Nevada.Jon Elswick / AP file
July 18, 2019, 8:04 AM PDT
By Jason Abbruzzese

They want to believe.

The viral phenomenon of a Facebook event calling for people to storm the Nevada military base colloquially known as Area 51 has continued to gain momentum in the past week, becoming a running joke online but also a cause of concern for authorities.

The event — a tongue-in-cheek attempt to find aliens hidden by the government — has taken on a life of its own in the internet zeitgeist, receiving nods from celebrities and brands while also turning into its own meme on the short-form video app TikTok.

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri jokingly offered to cater the event with radioactive ribs. Bud Light created an Area 51-themed beer can. And MoonPie naturally got in on the fun.

Rapper Lil Nas X even released a special Area 51-themed video for his smash hit, "Old Town Road."


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Meanwhile, the event's guest list continues to grow, with more than 1.6 million Facebook users marking themselves as "going." While the general expectation is that most people are embracing the event as satire, the sheer number of people who have joined the event have led to legitimate concern about even a few thousand people flooding the area around the military base.

The deluge of attention on the event spurred its creator, Matty Roberts, to come forward and speak with KLAS-TV, a CBS affiliate in Las Vegas. Roberts told the affiliate that he was worried that the authorities may show up at his house.

The U.S. Air Force warned Friday against visiting the secretive base, saying that "any attempt to illegally access the area is highly discouraged."

Residents of Rachel, Nevada, the small town close to the base, have told local news outlets that they are preparing for an influx of visitors.

The date of the Facebook event, Sept. 20, leaves time for interest and enthusiasm for the topic to wane. But the event has become more mainstream, reinvigorating questions about just what goes on at the military base.

On Fox Business, host Trish Regan spoke with Robert Scales, a retired major general with the U.S. Army, who assured the public that the base is just a "testing range."

He chalked up the recent hysteria to a certain unique national obsession with extraterrestrials.

"This is only in America," Scales said.


Jason Abbruzzese
Jason Abbruzzese is the senior editor for technology news at NBC News Digital.

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Naruto (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?50408)
Storm Area 51 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?71398-Storm-Area-51)

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Workin’ on some new recipes for the folks inside Area 51 👽 The Radioactive Ribs are lookin’ goooooood 🔥🔥🔥

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Bud Light is offering free beer to any alien that makes it out of Area 51 (https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/us/area-51-bud-light-trnd/index.html?utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-07-18T22%3A29%3A04&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1ajkO5hy9RsCawZhKqcF23bphL7Y_HSeZli9g6i o6Nfam6eglijuAqh4E)
By Allen Kim, CNN
Updated 11:13 AM ET, Thu July 18, 2019

(CNN)The world is ready to finally see the secrets hidden inside Area 51. And if one of those secrets happens to be living aliens, well, we have good news -- they'll be greeted with free cans of Bud Light.

Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud Light, initially posted on Twitter, "We'd like to be the first brand to formally announce that we will not be sponsoring the Area 51 raid."
However, the brand quickly backtracked off that alienating claim, saying, "Screw it. Free Bud Light to any alien that makes it out."


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The company even went as far as to make a label for its Area 51 Special Edition Bud Light.
"Greetings Earthlings. This is the famous Area 51," it says at the top of the can. "We know of no space beer by any other life form which is brewed and aged to be more refreshing. Our cryogenic aging produces a light bodied space lager with a fresh taste, a crisp, clean finish, and a smooth drinkability. Take us to your leader...for drinks."

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There's just one catch: Anheuser-Busch is asking for 51,000 retweets to make it happen. The tweet still has a way to go.

They've moved the aliens. You can't give them this much warning.

[Jimbo]

Now there's idiots planning a 'Storm Loch Ness' day.

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‘Storm Area 51’ creator wants to turn fake viral Facebook event into a real music festival (https://dancingastronaut.com/2019/07/storm-area-51-creator-wants-to-turn-fake-viral-facebook-event-into-a-real-music-festival/)
BY: DANCING ASTRONAUT STAFF JUL 23, 2019

Ah, the Internet. Brutal, true, and undefeated, the World Wide Web is more than just the most important example of human ingenuity in history—it is the gift the keeps on giving. The gift it is currently giving, the viral “Storm Area 51” campaign, seems to be on the tail end of a meme’s 15 minutes of fame, though, what began as a fake Facebook event gone wrong could wind up being an actual music festival someday.

The Facebook event, titled “Storm Area 51: They Can’t Stop All of Us” received millions of RSVPs within days of being posted. The event’s creator, Bakersfield College student Matty Roberts, recently told KERO-TV,

“I want to make it like a festival of sorts. I want to have a bunch of different musical artists, everybody from the EDM world and then maybe some indie rock, maybe some smaller guys that are up and coming. I’ve had a lot of people DM’ing the page saying their bands want to play there, which would be super cool,”

Roberts’ viral meme-inspiring “raid” of the mysterious Air Force base is set to take place on September 20, and there’s no saying if it will ever fully materialize into a real music event. If it does though, just make sure the Dancing Astronauts are in attendance.

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It's a play to monetize, which I completely understand. When you get this much viral, there's got to be a way to monetize. But another desert festival? Man, the liability...:rolleyes:

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'Here we go again': Communities near Area 51 brace for influx of UFO tourists (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/here-we-go-again-communities-near-area-51-brace-influx-n1034731)
A Facebook event encouraging people to "Storm Area 51" has ramped up alien-hunting buzz to an unprecedented level in Lincoln County, Nevada.

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Visitors take pictures with a statue of an alien, known by locals as "Fred," outside the Alien Research Center in Crystal Springs, Nevada.Joe Buglewicz / for NBC News
July 27, 2019, 8:05 AM PDT
By Anita Hassan

ALAMO, Nev. — The first time Vern Holaday heard people talk about trying to storm Area 51, he was sitting around a campfire with about a dozen UFO enthusiasts outside the motel he owns in Alamo.

It was the fall of 2009, and the 15-room Alamo Inn was hosting an annual UFO conference. As it usually did, the conversation turned from alien life forms to conspiracy theories about Area 51 — the secretive military facility about 35 miles west of Alamo.

That night, a man from Idaho, who worked on motorcycles for a living, suggested to the others around the campfire that they could rush the facility on motorcycles, believing the military guards wouldn’t be able to stop them that way, Holaday recalled.

Nothing ever came of that scheme beyond campfire chatter, but Holaday, 59, thought of it recently when a Facebook event, titled “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” set off an internet frenzy. Even though the event’s creator, Matty Roberts, claimed it was a hoax and the Air Force warned against anyone breaking into the property — located within the Nevada Test and Training Range at the Nellis Air Force Base — almost 2 million people have RSVP’d on Facebook for the Sept. 20 gathering.

“All I thought was, ‘Here we go again,’” Holaday said, chuckling. As of this week, his motel, about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, had only two vacant rooms left for the days of the event.

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Vern Holaday is the owner of the Alamo Inn and longtime resident of Alamo, Nevada.Vern Holaday is the owner of the Alamo Inn in Alamo, Nevada. He lives on the property with his dog, Bella. Joe Buglewicz / for NBC News

Tourism drawn by talk of extraterrestrial activities has been a part of the economy for decades in the small towns that dot the valleys near Area 51. The boom began around 1989, when Bob Lazar, a self-described engineer, claimed to a Las Vegas television station that he worked on extraterrestrial aircraft that were housed at Area 51. Since then, business owners and residents have welcomed tourists hoping to get a peek at the military facility or spot a UFO in the sky.

But the Facebook event has ramped up buzz to levels residents have never witnessed, with motel and campground owners receiving scores of calls a day. If the event brings the masses it’s promised, many in the area are excited for the potential extra business. Some, though, are also concerned about the lack of infrastructure to accommodate the crowds that could attend.

“This is the most overwhelmed I’ve ever felt in my entire life,” said Connie West, who co-owns a motel, bar and restaurant called Little A’Le’Inn with her mother in Rachel, a tiny town about 50 miles from Alamo. Since the end of June, her business has been inundated with calls about everything from room bookings to bands that want to play on her property during the event. Like Holaday, she’s heard the conspiracy theorists talk of invading Area 51 for years, but nothing of this magnitude. “It’s a frenzy,” she said.

The Little A’Le’Inn is the only business in Rachel, a close-knit desert community of about 70 people that spans about 3 miles on the Extraterrestrial Highway. (Formerly known as State Route 375, the highway was renamed by the Nevada Tourism Board in 1996.)

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Image:Pam Kinsey spruces up the grounds at the Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, Nevada.Joe Buglewicz / for NBC News

Last weekend, West, 51, and a handful of locals sat in rocking chairs and at picnic tables under the shade of a silver maple tree, discussing preparations for Sept. 20.

West has been calling food and alcohol vendors — the motel hosts the only bar for about 100 miles in any direction — to make sure she’s stocked up. She’s been ordering more T-shirts, mugs and other novelty items for the gift shop inside the restaurant. The motel also rents out campsites, and West is in the process of clearing more land to make room for patrons attending the event.

“There’s not a way or walk of life that hasn’t come through those doors in the last 31 years,” West said of the conspiracy theorists, UFO believers and astronomy buffs she’s hosted. “All are welcome.” continued next post

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Still, West said she was concerned about people getting hurt or arrested trying to make their way to Area 51. Some have speculated that local law enforcement will shut down roads leading to the military facility to prevent anyone from getting close. Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee said he could not discuss the details, but that the agency was prepared.

Nellis Air Force Base said in a statement that “any attempt to illegally access the area is highly discouraged.”

“Who knows what’s going to happen,” West said. “It could happen and be great for business or it could be a financial disaster.”

Michael Shepherd, 44, a Rachel resident, is concerned about the trash that the influx of visitors could leave behind.

“This is our little part of the desert,” Shepherd, who works on an alfalfa farm, said. “We want people to respect it.”

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Image:Nevada State Route 375, also known as the Extraterrestrial Highway, runs from Crystal Springs to Warm Springs, Nevada. The highway is the closest access point for nearby Area 51.Joe Buglewicz / for NBC News

About 40 miles south of the Little A’Le’Inn is the Alien Research Center, a novelty shop that has become a popular spot for tourists driving down the Extraterrestrial Highway. The shop carries everything from alien-shaped salt-and-pepper shakers to “Star Wars” collectibles. Misty Ingram, 38, who has worked at the shop for about a year, said she hasn’t been able to keep T-shirts on the rack in the last few weeks.

The best-selling item recently: black T-shirts with red and white lettering that reads, “Area 51, Groom Lake Research Facility S-4, WARNING, restricted area, use of deadly force authorized.” The shirts are meant to imitate the signage at the guarded gates around the facility that tourists trek to see each year.

“I think it’s ridiculous that anyone thinks they are going to get into Area 51,” Ingram said.

She believes the event will morph into more of a makeshift festival than a raid. The shop’s phone has been ringing with vendors ranging from bakeries to tattoo artists asking if they can set up in the store’s parking lot in September.

Ingram, a mother of three who has lived in Alamo for 12 years, said she’s excited for the business, but is concerned about safety, noise and traffic jams on the two-lane highways that connect the valleys in Lincoln County.

“Most of us live all the way out here for a reason,” Ingram said. “It’s to get away from things like this.”

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Image:Misty Ingram works at the Alien Research Center in Crystal Springs.Joe Buglewicz / for NBC News

Holaday grew up in Alamo, a ranching and agricultural community of about 1,000 residents, where neighbors pull their cars over to stop and chat when they see each other. The town is so close to the Nevada Test and Training Range that many locals have a story about a military jet flying so low, it felt as if it were hovering just above their head. They are used to sonic booms from speeding aircraft rattling their windows.

Holaday’s father, who did some cattle ranching, was also a maintenance worker at Area 51. Growing up, it was understood that his father did not discuss the details of what he saw while working at the military facility.

About 12 years ago, Holaday learned that the Alamo Inn was for sale. He decided to return from New Jersey, where he’d been living for work, to buy it and raise his two children in his hometown.

Soon afterward, a group began hosting a UFO conference there. For five or six years, the group held panels at a nearby senior center and then returned to the Alamo Inn in the evening. They barbecued and then sat around a campfire talking shop.

Holaday often joined them, giving little credence to the theories, but still amused and fascinated.

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A display of aliens at the Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, Nevada.A display of aliens at the Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, Nevada.Joe Buglewicz / for NBC News

“They said a lot of strange things,” he said, “but honestly, I also learned a lot from them, too, about looking at the stars.”

One night, after putting out the campfire, Holaday drove with the group down the Extraterrestrial Highway into Tikaboo Valley to a single black mailbox in a dusty lot on the side of the road. Holaday said the mailbox belonged to a local rancher, but somehow over the years truth stretched into conspiracies and many came to believe it was a spot where aliens communicated with humans. (The original mailbox has since been replaced, but on a recent visit it was still stuffed with hand-scrawled notes, including one that read, “Dear Aliens, please take Donald Trump.”)

While the trip to the mailbox wasn’t the pilgrimage for Holaday that it was for the UFO enthusiasts, he did have a new experience sitting still and staring at the stars for hours that night, as he waited with the others for aliens to appear.

“You know, it’s like you’ve lived here your whole life,” he said. “But you’ve never looked up.”

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Image:The Alien Research Center in Crystal Springs.Joe Buglewicz / for NBC News

Anita Hassan
Anita Hassan is a national investigative reporter for NBC News, based in Las Vegas.

I live in a tourist beach town. Tourists are such a love/hate relationship. They're so annoying but they bring in so much income to the local economy.

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'Storm Area 51' event draws only 100 people, one arrested for public urination (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/20/storm-area-51-facebook-event-draws-only-100-people/2388810001/)
Ed Komenda, Reno Gazette JournalPublished 3:40 p.m. ET Sept. 20, 2019 | Updated 4:05 p.m. ET Sept. 20, 2019

Popular conspiracy theories have inspired many to "storm Area 51.” But what is Area 51? And what makes it the alien hotspot of conspiracy theories? Just the FAQs, USA TODAY

RACHEL, Nev. – In the early morning dark in the Nevada desert Friday, one of about 100 people visiting the entrance gate to Area 51 landed in handcuffs.

“We arrested one guy for indecent exposure out of Canada at the gate,” Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee told the USA TODAY Network.

The man, the sheriff said, urinated near the gate.

Authorities detained a woman for “investigative purposes,” but – all in all – the “storming” of Area 51 turned out to be a manageable affair.

'It’s not as bad as we thought'

“It’s a relief that it’s not as bad as we thought it was going to be,” Lee said.

The sheriff of rural Lincoln County has spent the past eight weeks navigating a struggle with the unknown – the presiding force driving thousands of people to Nevada for events tied to the viral “Storm Area 51” Facebook event intended as a middle-of-the-night joke that quickly evolved into a spectacle that captured the attention of seekers all over the country.

In the tiny town of Rachel, a town of about 50, Alienstock on Friday night is expected to draw as many as 2,500 people – a number much lower than what authorities anticipated.

“My nightmare was the 30,000 people,” Lee said. “I truly thought we were going to have bumper to bumper.”

Not much happens at the 'UFO Capital of the World'
The self-proclaimed "UFO Capital of the World," Rachel is on State Route 375, dubbed in 1996 the "Extraterrestrial Highway."

Rachel is the closest habitation to Area 51 – a military facility inside a classified test and training range that inspires conspiracy theories.

On a normal day, what happens along the highway that cuts through Rachel is no mystery: Not much.

“There’s times at night you can take this road almost all the way to Tonopah and never pass a vehicle,” Lee said. Thursday, when Alienstock kicked off, that changed. “It was steady vehicles one after the other after the other yesterday and last night.”

Even so – with more than 100 law enforcement officers patrolling the festival – Sheriff Lee is finding it easier to forget his nightmare.

He’s optimistic the spectacle will dissolve come Saturday.

“Hopefully,” Lee said, “people will start migrating back up.”

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Maybe they were all...abducted?