A widely discussed event to “storm” Area 51 may be a joke, but the U.S. military isn’t playing around.
Planned for Sept. 20 between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m., a Facebook event now has roughly 1.3 million people signed up to attend “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.”
Although the event has sparked an array of online memes and jokes about freeing aliens, the Air Force, which oversees the facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range, is warning that any effort to breach the base is serious business.
He’s training to free the aliens at Area 51… pic.twitter.com/5oz1Q5rUZ6
— Guy (@apiecebyguy) July 15, 2019
“The Nevada Test and Training Range is an area where the Air Force tests and trains combat aircraft,” Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews said in a statement to USA Today. “Any attempt to illegally access military installations or military training areas is dangerous.”
It is unclear how many people might actually show up, but the plan, according to the event page, is to meet at the “Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry. If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens.”
“Naruto run” is a reference to Naruto, a Japanese anime and manga series about super-powered ninjas.
