TTO – Starting from a joke on Facebook, more than 1 million people have signed up to participate in the event “infiltrating the Area 51 military zone” in the state of Nevada (USA), prompting the US Air Force to warn of danger.
Area 51 military base is a restricted area, meaning no information about the activities inside is leaked out – Photo: BBC
In an interview with the Washington Post about the event causing a stir on Facebook, a spokesman for the US Air Force emphasized that they are “ready to defend the United States and its assets” against any intrusion.
This is the most serious comment of the US military after more than 1 million people expressed interest in the event of infiltrating Area 51 (Nevada) to hunt… aliens.
Facebook user Jackson Barnes described on the event page: “Hi US government, this is just a joke and I have no intention of going ahead with this plan. I think the idea is fun and can earn some likes on the Internet. I am not responsible if someone decides to infiltrate the real Area 51.”
But the US government did not find this joke amusing at all.
“Area 51 is a training area for the US Air Force. We recommend that no one enter the area where we train the US armed forces” – the US Air Force spokesman continued to remind.
Area 51 base is located deep in the Nevada desert – Photo: BBC
Some conspiracy theories believe that the US government has information about aliens and UFOs (unidentified flying objects) but hides it from the public.
They think the Area 51 base – which has been officially recognized since 2013 – is the place to hold aliens, strange technology and even crashed flying saucers. Of course, the US government denied this more than once.
Rumors about Area 51 began in 1989, when a man named Bob Lazar appeared on television claiming to be a physicist who used to work on the base. He claims to have participated in disassembling a flying saucer and reading government documents about alien involvement on Earth.
Bob Lazar recently appeared on the radio again and Netflix made a documentary about him. Maybe this is the reason why the public is once again interested in the Area 51 conspiracy theory.
Thomas Bullard, author of the book “UFO Myths and Mysteries”, commented: “After trust between the government and the public was eroded with the Vietnam War and Watergate affair, Roswell and Area 51 came in from dictionary as a proverb describes the two-sided game of government”.
Roswell is an area in the state of New Mexico where a flying object crashed in 1947. The US military said it was a weather balloon but many believe it was a flying saucer.