Why do they call area 51

If top-end estimates prove accurate, Lincoln County's population around 5, would increase fold overnight. In Rachel and Hiko, Mr Lee said, the amenities would be insufficient. Aside from a few shops and a hotel, their medical, restroom, gas and internet services are non-existent or patchy at best. A statement on Rachel's website predicted that Alienstock would be "Fyre Festival 2.

Fyre Festival, held in , was billed as a glamorous party in the Bahamas, but ultimately promised more than it could deliver. Some believe that Alienstock could suffer a similar fate. Earlier this week, Mr Roberts officially severed ties with Alienstock, citing fears of a "possible humanitarian disaster". Former Alienstock organiser Frank DiMaggio also distanced himself from the festival. She told KTNV she has paid for security, toilets and paramedics and, on Monday last week, announced 20 bands and two comedians on the line-up.

When asked if she had any regrets, Ms West broke down in tears on camera. Organisers of the second event, a two-day gathering of "believers", UFO experts and musicians at the Alien Research Center in Hiko, seem more sanguine. Mr Wright, 49, said there's a "fair amount" of public space for tents, while water, electrical and sanitary needs are covered. But if the numbers exceed the tens of thousands "there's no way they can be taken care of by the existing infrastructure", he said.

Mr Wright, like Alienstock's organisers, knows the stakes of miscalculation are high. The consequences could be calamitous, as they famously were for Fyre Festival. As the clock ticks, a sense of anticipation is building, though Mr Roberts said he has no regrets, yet.

Anyone who attends Alienstock, or attempts to storm Area 51, is "doing so by their own accord". Unlike the US government, Mr Roberts has opted for full disclosure. The truth - from his perspective - is out there.

Are government officials the only living creatures existing on the base? These endless mysteries have captured the attention and curiosity of the world, fascinating Area51 Electronics so much that we decided to adopt the designation and the mission to provide electronic components for the aerospace and military industries.

What's the difference between Area 51 and Area51 Electronics you ask? While we don't actually have UFOs or any extraterrestrial products, we do have a crew of "aliens" our team members who are here to provide expertise in verified electronic, electrical, and electromechanical components, hardware and assemblies for the latest technology.

The idea behind the Area51 Electronics name came from one of the company's co-founders, Steve Shammah, and his love of anything space-related. Festival marshals waved me along to an assigned lot. My neighbors at the parking lot-slash-campsite were a punk band called Foreign Life Form. They were trying to find the concert organizer to get added to the billing. Getting to the actual entrance to Area 51 took another 20 minutes of driving on an unmarked, unpaved road.

Clouds of chalk billowed behind the cars coming and going. At the end of the road was a drab military checkpoint flanked by concertina wire and threatening signs. The sign prohibiting photography was clearly a dead letter. They seemed relaxed, though, and looked like they were having as good a time as the ostensible Stormers. After all, this was an excuse for them to hang out at Area 51, too. To my knowledge, no one actually raided Area 51, besides the two Dutch YouTubers who had tried to sneak through the perimeter two weeks earlier and ended up in jail instead.

In addition to YouTube vloggers and Instagram influencers, there were more than a few actual journalists. Watching them scurry around diligently with tape recorders reminded me that I needed to find a Quirky Character who could give On-Scene Color. A talkative UFO buff would be ideal but the other journalists had already claimed most of the good ones. The vloggers loved them, and the Pepes enjoyed mugging for the cameras. Under their frog heads, the Pepes were two young Latino guys from California.

The other nodded in recognition but claimed he just thought the symbol was fun. Tendrils of fog hung over Alienstock. The temperature was dropping fast and the sun was low and pink in the sky.

The sunset was sublime but I had a long drive to my motel ahead and a sick feeling that I should have left half an hour ago. I bade farewell to the history podcaster. He reminded me that the area was open grazing land.

It was time to get back to civilization, I decided. Or at least Las Vegas. I stopped at the gas station in Alamo, near Rachel. The town felt hungover, and it still had a day to go. March 6, - A citizen suit between former employees at Area 51 and the Department of Defense is filed. The plaintiffs former employees allege violations of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act "in the storage, treatment, and disposal of hazardous waste at the operating location near Groom Lake.

July 23, - A citizen suit between former employees at Area 51 and the Environmental Protection Agency is filed. The court determines that the administrator of the EPA "completed her statutory duties with regard to the inspection and inventory of the operating location near Groom Lake. April - A Russian-built satellite reveals views of Area Bush signs a memorandum to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The memorandum to the Administrator states, "I find that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to exempt the United States Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, the subject of litigation, from any applicable requirement for the disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning that operating location.

Jeffrey T. The documents claim the site's secret status was a way to keep information from the Soviets, rather than to cover-up an alien encounter. He says, "First I had people go look at the records on Area 51, to make sure there was no alien down there. March 24, - On "Jimmy Kimmel Live," presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says if elected, she would open government files on any unexplained aerial phenomenon barring any threats to national security.