Nearly 300,000 UFO Sleuths Vow to ‘Storm Area 51’ in Search of Alien Secrets

(L-R) A screenshot of the Facebook event calling for a raid on Area 51 and a photo taken on March 12, 2000, showing a warning sign marking the boundary of Area 51, in Rachel, Nevada. Dan Callister/Getty Images

More than 285,000 people have signed up to a “Storm Area 51” event on Facebook that claims plans to raid the secretive military facility in September and “see them aliens.”

Area 51, the mysterious United States military base nestled between mountain ranges north of Las Vegas, Nevada, has for decades been a lightning rod for UFO buffs and believers in government-led alien coverups.