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Four days of extraterrestrial reveling in Storm Area events concluded Sunday without any alien abductions or UFO sightings reported.
What began as a joke — “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” Matty Roberts posted on June 27 — quickly spiraled out of hand.
Two people were injured in the crash, which occurred Saturday morning in a dry lake bed in Rachel, near the Alienstock festival. One was airlifted to receive medical care.
The scheduled musical artists won’t be coming to Hiko, but speakers will still appear inside the Alien Research Center. A few vendors chose to stick around, too.
The first two days of Storm Area 51 events has yielded only a handful of arrests, including one for a man urinating on an Area 51 security gate.
Following a relatively calm day of prep and setup on Thursday — when reporters and some seriously obnoxious bloggers seemed to equal the number of attendees — the attention seekers turned up en masse on Friday looking to party at Alienstock.
About 100 extraterrestrial enthusiasts converged at the back gate of Area 51 near Rachel at 3 a.m. Friday to follow through on the original Storm Area 51 plan.
With Day 1 down, there are two more to go in Alienstock, and West believes the event will get better as the days go on.
Multiple camps are visible off the highway. Some flying American flags and some with alien-themed flags, letting passersby know they’re here for the party.
The incident command post, the main first responder area of the three being set up for the Storm Area 51 events is comprised of over a dozen federal, state and local agencies.
“STAY AWAY FROM RACHEL NEXT WEEKEND!” the town’s official site, rachel-nevada.com, warned this week.
After months of hoopla surrounding the Storm Area 51 phenomenon, organizers behind Alienstock and Area 51 Basecamp are getting festival sites ready for attendees.
Two men from the Netherlands accused of trespassing onto the Nevada National Security Site last week each pleaded guilty Monday to the misdemeanor charge.
The last-minute switch in affiliation by the creator of Storm Area 51 has led to bad blood between those involved in competing events, and allegations of dirty dealing by both sides.
Callister Law Group in Las Vegas sent the letter Thursday to Little A’Le’Inn owner Connie West on behalf of Matty Roberts, who this week abandoned his affiliation with the event in Rachel.
The Bud Light Area 51 Celebration occurring Sept. 19 at the Derek Stevens-owned Downtown Las Vegas Events Center will now feature Matty Roberts.
The marquee “Storm Area 51” event, Alienstock, is expected to draw upwards of 10,000 attendees for the multiday gathering in the Nevada desert.
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“Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” the jokey Facebook event created by pranksters, has more than 1.2 million people pledging to “see them aliens.”