https://www.wired.com/story/dont-storm-area-51-begs-the-webmaster-of-the-ufo-kingdom/ > On August 18, Joerg Arnu, a resident of Rachel, Nevada, stepped before his local Lincoln County commissioners. He had come to voice opposition to an event called Alienstock that was set to descend on his town. Starting September 19, an unknown but possibly huge number of visitors were to swarm his hamlet. Said festival had spun off from a joke Facebook event, a suggestion gone viral that a herd of humans could break into Area 51 and learn the military base's alien secrets. The joke spawned the very real Alienstock and the “Storm Area 51 Basecamp” experience planned for the other end of Highway 375, a stretch of pavement officially labeled Extraterrestrial Highway. The creator of the Facebook post has since moved Alienstock to Las Vegas, but the residents of Rachel are still bracing for an onslaught of visitors. > Arnu isn’t into it. He is not into the joke that has already inspired at least two people, young Dutch YouTubers, to breach the Air Force's perimeter. And he is not into the party that threatens to take over his very little locale, a place located freakishly close to Area 51's back gate. He has tried to put an end to its flight path. With the original festivities scheduled to start today, it's unclear whether the horde will be huge or whether this bang will end with a poorly attended whimper.