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‘Storm Area 51’: it started as a joke, but the US military isn’t amused
- US Air Force warned people against taking part in an internet joke suggesting a large crowd of people ‘storm’ the top-secret site
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As of Thursday, 1.6 million people had RSVP’d to a Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us”.
As the name suggests, the plan is to storm Area 51 – the notorious Nevada military base associated with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.
“We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Centre tourist attraction and coordinate our entry,” the event description reads.
The prank event jokes “they can’t stop all of us” and “let’s see them aliens”.
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It suggests that a mass of people attempt to run into the mysterious site at 3am on September 20.
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