BRINGING YOU THE LATEST TALK FROM AROUND THE SQUADRONS
STORMING AREA 51
WHERE FANTASY AND REALITY DON’T MIX!
I WAS RECENTLY SITTING in Starbucks when I was sent an innocuous text message by a friend containing a link to an event on Facebook, entitled ‘Storm Area 51 — they can’t stop all of us’. All I could do was to stare in sheer disdain. We can agree this event was spawned in jest – and there is comfort to be found in a little comedic reliefat a time when the headlines are wrought with chaos, strife, bitterness, and all manner of political tomfoolery. But it also occurred to me that a few wayward individuals out there would probably take it seriously. Therein lies the problem.
Slated for September 20 in the ‘thriving metropolis’ of the Amargosa Valley, Nevada, it currently — at the time of writing — has nearly a million people (allegedly) attending, with almost as many listed as being ‘interested’.
I’ve heard some bad ideas in my lifetime, but, in the history of bad ideas, this one sits near the top of my list of the most hare-brained, you-cannot-possibly-bethis- stupid conceptualizations in the history of… well, everything.
‘We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and co-ord…
