Air Force warns against storming Area 51 as Facebook event reaches 1.5 million attendees.
The Air Force is warning people against storming Area 51 in Nevada, after a Facebook event page, organizing a meet up at the"Alien Center tourist attraction," went viral.
As of Wednesday morning, over 1.5 million people said they were"attending" the event, called"Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us." The event is scheduled for Sept. 20 at 3 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Another 1.1 million Facebook users indicated they were"interested." The range is the largest contiguous air and ground space available for peacetime military operations in the free world, according to the Air Force, spanning 2.9 million acres of land and 5,000 square miles of airspace which is restricted from civilian air traffic.Area 51 is just Coachella for conspiracy theorists
The Air Force did investigate UFOs under Project Blue Book from 1947 to 1969, but the project was headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, not at the range in Nevada.Project Blue Book concluded that none of the UFOs investigated were a threat to U.S. national security and there was"no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as 'unidentified' were extraterrestrial vehicles," according to the Air Force.He’s training to free the aliens at Area 51... pic.
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