Air Force Warns Against Storming Area 51 As Facebook Event Reaches 1.5 Million Attendees

(ABC) Elizabeth McLaughlin Jul 17 2019 12:54 PM The Air Force is warning people against storming Area 51 in Nevada after a Facebook event page organizing a meet up at the Alien Center tourist attraction went viral. Conspiracy theorists believe that the U.S. government has kept UFOs and extraterrestrial life at the location which is actually an Air Force training range. As of Wednesday morning over 1.5 million people said they were attending the event called Storm Area 51 They Cant Stop All of Us. The event is scheduled for Sept. 20 at 3 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Another 1.1 million Facebook users indicated they were interested. 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. Naruto refers to the running style of the Japanese anime character Naruto Uzumaki. The United States Air Force is aware of the Facebook post Air Force spokesperson Laura McAndrews told ABC News 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." The range is the largest contiguous air and ground space available for peacetime military operations in the free world according to the Air Force spanning 2.9 million acres of land and 5000 square miles of airspace which is restricted from civilian air traffic.