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What are you doing on September 20 at precisely 3 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time?
If you answered sleeping, then maybe you didn’t get the Facebook invite to storm Area 51, the highly classified U.S. Air Force facility located in Nevada, long thought to house evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Maybe the invitation is unopened in your inbox or perhaps it sits awaiting a response alongside the invite you received to attend your cousin’s BBQ.
Regardless, the Facebook “invitation” to storm Area 51, a mock event (I think), reads as such:
"We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry," according to the Facebook page. "If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets [sic] see them aliens." (For the uninitiated, to Naruto run means to run like a character from the Japanese manga series of the same name who is capable of running at superhuman speeds. Source: Wikipedia).
Intriguing, no?
Well if you are among the 1.9 million people (as of 7/29/2019 at 1:17 PM EST) planning to attend the mass-trespass event, or perhaps among the 1.4 million who might go unless of course they get a better offer in the interim, the U.S. Air Force has some thoughts.
"The United States Air Force is aware of the Facebook post," Air Force spokesperson Laura McAndrews said in a statement. "The Nevada Test and Training Range is an area where the Air Force tests and trains combat aircraft. As a matter of practice, we do not discuss specific security measures, but any attempt to illegally access military installations or military training areas is dangerous.”
Loosely translated: trespassers should expect to be fined, arrested or potentially shot at if attempting to storm the facility. All compelling reasons not to go.
Yet despite those warnings, it’s all but certain a number of people will show up to the joke event prepared to unearth evidence of alien life and UFOs long concealed by the U.S. government. Naturally, I picture a bunch of people much like the Randy Quaid character from Independence Day. (Though this sounds judgmental, it really isn’t meant to be; after all, wasn’t Randy Quaid right all along?)
At any rate, maybe you should just go to your cousin’s BBQ instead.
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