No, Really? Alien Hunt!?
"It's been two weeks of insanity, pure insanity."
"I've had no sleep. I have no voice. I would like to shake the hand of the young man who made this happen and created this monster, and also would really like to punch him as hard as I could."
Connie West, proprietor, Rachel's UFO-themed hotel, Little A'Le'Inn
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"Something is being covered up here."
"If it was nothing they would just come out and tell you there was nothing."
Phil Hartley, lecturer in electrical engineering, Bo'Ness, Scotland
"This is a very rough, tough desert [high mountains, baking heat, kilometres of jagged terrain]."
"It's not a good place to get stranded or run out of gas."
Roberta Park retired schoolteacher
"I cannot believe it's gotten this much attention. We deal with this on a weekly basis but nothing to this scale."It was meant to be a bit of a lark. The person posting on Facebook declaring it was time to gather a crowd of curiosity-seekers and invade Nevada's Area 51, a military installation in the wilderness area of the state off limits, guarded by infrared cameras, buried motion sensors and private security guards, with its own airline -- the proving ground for generations of advanced U.S. aircraft, has always fascinated UFO hunters. The creator of the event urged people to sign up to attend the event. And he claims to have been surprised when 1.9 million signatures resulted.
"We could probably handle it, [a possible influx of a thousand visitors] but it could definitely cause issues. Heaven forbid the number is 5,000 people where you almost double the size of the county.""I could see people with a lot of heat-related issues, and with our limited resources up here it could definitely jeopardize their safety. The number of people could overwhelm our EMS in a hurry."
Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee
He took it that the responses represented the same spirit of light-hearted fantasy-making as his own, in urging everyone to gather to view UFOs: to come along to "storm Area 51" and "see them aliens". It isn't really known what percentage of that close to two-million signers-on are serious about the imagined 'event', planning to arrive on September 21, the designated date for an unstoppable crowd to storm the area. If so, they would sardine-pack the tiny town of Rachel with its population of 54.
Rachel is considered to be the "back gate" to Groom Lake -- Area 51 -- accessible through the "Extraterrestrial Highway". On the highway is the Alien Research Center gift shop, and other related alien-themed pit stops. Groom Lake was chosen in 1955 by the Central Intelligence Agency as the test site for its U2 spy plane program. At the present time, that function on the site is merely one of many. The Nevada Test and Training Range is a military reservation of considerable size, a vast forbidden area wherein sit specialized areas from drone bases to botanical experimental stations.
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A physicist by the name of Bob Lazar has claimed for decades that he worked on a crashed alien space craft near Groom Lake. He spoke on June 21 about the matter on a podcast with Joe Rogan, provoking the interest of student Matty Roberts, 20, who thought what fun could be had in suggesting an invasion of the area. "I think everything Bob Lazar says is true", a young sound engineer from Seattle averred, scouting the area to set up a music festival in September.
Should anyone in fact attempt to enter Area 51, they will face the reality of non-entry. The private guards are authorized in the use of deadly force should the occasion arise. And it did back in January when a man was killed as he attempted to cross the line near the town of Mercury at the opposite end of the NTTR from Groom Lake.
Labels: Alien Invason, Area 51, Groom Lake, Nevada, UFO
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, July 30, 2019
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