{"id":71123,"date":"2019-09-20T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=71123"},"modified":"2019-09-30T13:49:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:49:01","slug":"bold-prediction-nobody-is-getting-into-area-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2019\/09\/20\/bold-prediction-nobody-is-getting-into-area-51\/","title":{"rendered":"BOLD PREDICTION: Nobody Is Getting Into Area 51"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Most probably assumed it would be forgotten by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you visit the original Facebook event page, only a husk of the meme can be found. What began as an earnest call to action \u2013 \u201clet\u2019s see them aliens\u201d <\/em>\u2013 exists now only as some opportunistic capitalism: we were kidding about organizing an attack on a domestic military base. Buy tickets! Buy t-shirts!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, of those marked \u201cattending,\u201d surely there must be some faithful few among them. On the tenth, two Dutch YouTubers were arrested for trespassing on a facility near Area 51, which is technically called Homey Airport, a moniker substantially less foreboding than \u201cArea 51.\u201d This was well after a USAF spokesperson announced back in July that \u201cany attempt to illegal access military installations or military training areas is dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s aliens. But I do share the morbid curiosity, the inexorable drive to uncover what exactly <\/em>the government is hiding at Homey Airport. The property was acquired over sixty years ago, after all, and it was only in 2013 that the base\u2019s existence was officially acknowledged, when the CIA released a heavily redacted report on flight testing in the area per a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Literally anything and everything that happens at Area 51 is, for some reason, a closely guarded military secret. Probably not aliens, but…something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This all leads to today, the fateful day we\u2019ve all been marking down our calendars toward for weeks: September 20th<\/sup>, 2019. As news comes in from the remote Nevada military installation, we here at KJHK giddily await the secrets to be uncovered by today\u2019s raid of Area 51. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My personal take: no one is getting in. I mean, clearly. If I were a betting man, and if this weren\u2019t so obvious as to be unprofitable, I\u2019d put it all on not even one, singular, Naruto-running meme-lord to breach the fences. Dude, they have assault rifles. Helicopters. Probably lasers. Almost certainly lasers, I mean, it\u2019s an extremely secretive facility. Besides, they\u2019re the U.S. military, and they\u2019re not letting some ragtag band of Gen-Z renegades bring them to shame. Will there be casualties? [shrug emoji] Hope not. Stay tuned for updates — in case we really see them aliens though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Content Staffer Pat Richerson<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most probably assumed it would be forgotten by now. If you visit the original Facebook event page, only a husk of the meme can be found. What began as an earnest call to action \u2013 \u201clet\u2019s see them aliens\u201d \u2013 exists now only as some opportunistic capitalism: we were kidding about organizing an attack on a domestic military base. Buy tickets! Buy t-shirts! Yet, of those marked \u201cattending,\u201d surely there must be some faithful few among them. On the tenth, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21899,"featured_media":71125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3226,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-articles","category-featured-on-kjhk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alien-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}