People are starting to show up in the Nevada desert for Alienstock, a music festival that sprang out of a viral Facebook plan to storm Area 51. Authorities say there were approximately 1,500 people in ...

More than a year and a half after the Storm Area 51 events, a lawsuit surrounding Alienstock has reached a tentative settlement, according to court records. Little A’Le’Inn owner Connie West organized ...

There are just three more days before September 20, the date which an infamous Facebook post urged readers to Storm Area 51, the mysterious, top-secret Air Force base near Rachel, Nevada. Some pointed ...

Attendees dance to music during Alienstock festival on the "Extraterrestrial Highway in Rachel, Nevada on September. 20, 2019. Alienstock, the eclectic and unique Area 51-themed music festival held in ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - An innkeeper who expects an unknown number of campers to be attracted to her tiny Nevada desert town by a “Storm Area 51” internet hoax has been sent a cease-and-desist order over her ...

HIKO, Nev. — The promoter of an event set up for Earthlings to party in the remote Nevada desert around the “Storm Area 51” internet craze canceled a Saturday show because of low attendance, while the ...

The first thing I saw when I unzipped my tent on Friday morning at Alienstock was a woman sitting in the driver’s seat of her Subaru, door open, staring at our campsite as if she’d been waiting for me ...

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UPDATE, SUNDAY AM: A tweet by The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) that threatened Area 51 trespassers with a stealth bomber has been hastily deleted and an apology issued. The ...