Millions of people have signed up to a tongue-in-cheek Facebook event to storm the US military base “Area 51” on 20 September to discover whether aliens are inside. While the organisers said it was a joke, the US military wasn’t amused, responding it would “discourage anyone from trying to enter the area”.
![](https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/tmb/2019/internetjoke.jpg)
Source:
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-storming-area-aliens-science.html