---Uh...Many people seem to need things, causes to attach themselves to, perhaps, as substitutions for that which may be lacking, or missing, in their lives. While it seems as though most who showed up in Rachel, Nevada, and outside Area 51, for this mostly non-event were there for the...festivity of it all, from the photos it also appears that some in attendance were fully appareled to actually attempt some order of...saturation infiltration of this highly secured government installation. Wow.
Personally, I believe that Earth has been visited by so-called extraterrestrial life and spacecraft, and that it has likely been happening since there has been life on Earth, and continues through the present. And that credible sightings have occurred in remote places such as Area 51, and...in fairly nondescript suburban locales, and...pretty much everywhere in between. Which I find fascinating. Obsessing with that suspicion...is just obsession. Or, festivity.
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Misguided curiosity? Wasted time? Why bother?
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Having made the desolate, unsettling drive to the "back gate" of Area 51 myself a few years back, spending the night in Rachel, I would suggest that spending time at the site as part of a mob would do much to undermine the mystique of the place. What it feels like to approach the gate unannounced, to soak up the oddball essence of Rachel on a one-to-one basis.
Safety in numbers I guess, but driving the dusty road in my rental toward a place I was not supposed to be felt ominous to say the least. No phalanx of armed personnel to greet me, just a white vehicle that krept slowly from the gatehouse toward my car the second I came into view. A hasty three-point-turn, and I sped out of harm's way.
How could you hear the sounds of the desert over the roar of the crowd and ATVs? The utter absence of sound I mean. My morning in Rachel began when I opened the door of the modular home where I spent the night onto a view of the desert that spread out for miles and miles and miles. Not one sound. Absent the stirring of a breeze, absolute silence.
As for paranormal phenomenon, I will only say this. A day or two after leaving Area 51, I found myself at Bryce Canyon taking part in a morning trail ride.
The name of the mule that was assigned to me? Rachel.
Kid you not.
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Thankfully it sounds like everyone attending “gets it” and is having fun, unlike the loons of Occupy Oregon. Storm Area 51 reminds me of the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
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I am expecting out of this world lawsuits - claiming fraud as no aliens were cited.
Then again, what happens in Vegas -----
I need say no more.
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Burning Man for nerds.
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What’s the matter with these people? Don’t they know that the crashed space ships and bodies of little green men are actually kept over at Area Fifty-TWO?
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Note to desert vistors: Alien Jerky does not sell jerky made by or from aliens. They do sell a lot of dried fruit.
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The aliens are real. We are not alone in the universe. I hope everyone that’s at/near Area 51 stays safe.
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Sounds like some kind of weird nostalgia for another event like Woodstock.
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