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In 2019, a call went out to storm the
gates of the world's most top -secret

military installation.

This was the place that people were
attempting to back -engineer

extraterrestrial technology.

Millions responded.

The information had been percolating for
30 years, and then, bam, a perfect

storm. On the Internet, on the radio,
promoters were talking about, let's...

Storm Area 51.

The military vowed to protect the base
by any means necessary.

The DOD said we would bomb millennials
if they actually tried to storm the

of Area 51.

But still, thousands met the call to
action.

What's behind those gates is one of the
last mysteries. I want the government to

release the records now, today.

Was this the beginning of a movement
that will finally tear down the walls of

government secrecy?

and expose the truth about an
extraterrestrial presence on planet

are interested in the extraterrestrial
question and they want answers.

There is a doorway in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything we
have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

creates a post on Facebook.

In it, Roberts calls on his friends to
storm the top secret U .S. military base

called Area 51, a place that has long
been rumored to be housing crashed

extraterrestrial spacecraft.

As part of the post, Roberts invites his
readers to click to indicate if they're

attending.

I had shared it to my own personal
Facebook page, and I think it amassed

probably about 40 RSVPs, the people that
were interested or had tagged

themselves as going.

Roberts has no idea whether the post
will simply reach his own circle of

and acquaintances on Facebook, or if it
will spread further into cyberspace.

He gets his answer two days later, when
his phone begins buzzing with RSVP

notification.

First, a few hundred.

Then, a few thousand.

It just kept kind of snowballing. It
took about three days for it to really

off. And it just took off like
wildfires. And then that's when it got

Reddit. And when it got posted on
Reddit, it really took off.

Within a week, the number of RSVPs soars
to over a million.

And then on July 11th, the news got a
hold of it. Now a new Facebook event

about organizing a large mob to raid the
base. They're trying to organize a big

mob to storm Area 51 where all the
aliens are.

Officials are saying, stay away, this is
not something you want to go to. There

are even signs that warn it's a
restricted area, that it's unlawful to

area without permission, and that use of
deadly force... is authorized.

In short, don't go.

News commentators point out that if even
a small fraction of those who responded

show up, the proposed storming could
quickly turn violent.

Alarmed at the overwhelming response to
Roberts' post, U .S. military officials

issue a warning.

In ominous language, it states that the
U .S. Air Force always stands ready to

protect America.

and its assets.

Within days, Matty Roberts gets a visit
from the FBI.

FBI did show up to my house. They asked
me to send them anybody that's trying to

radicalize the thing in the form of
actually storming the base and actually

causing harm to people. They were really
concerned about people sending me death

threats.

In the wake of the FBI's visit, Roberts
claims that he was joking all along and

that he never actually intended for
anyone to heed his call.

I was just kind of like, I didn't think
anybody was going to take it too

seriously because when I created the
event on Facebook, it was meant as a

kind of like tongue in cheek, never
intended for it to go this far.

It was terrifying.

But whether Roberts wanted people to
take him seriously or not, by early

it seemed nothing could derail what he
had set in motion.

August 2019.

Matty Roberts' original post has now
been reposted hundreds of thousands of

times.

Over two million people have indicated
they plan to descend on Area 51 in

September and storm the top secret base.

No one has any idea how many might
actually attend.

And both the government and the media
gear up to blame Roberts.

if things turn into an ugly
confrontation between the military and

thousands of UFO enthusiasts.

In order to take the pressure off of
himself and his associates, Roberts asks

that his followers call off any plans to
actually invade the base on September

20th. Instead, he announces an
alternative idea, a peaceful celebration

Alien Stock.

which he begins organizing in the tiny
town of Rachel, Nevada, just outside

51. He promises a festival of music,
art, and all things alien.

In the weeks before the event, there are
efforts aimed at scaling down the

rhetoric and averting a potential
tragedy.

The government just did a whole counter
-media program, letting folks know that

they're not taking this as a game.

They don't think it's funny. No, it's
not Woodstock. You want to have a rock

festival outside of Rachel? Hey, have a
nice day, right? But you cross Area 51,

we take it seriously, you will be
arrested, prosecuted, likely convicted,

sent to jail.

Ten days before the event, two Dutch
YouTubers penetrate the Area 51

hiking three miles into the restricted
area.

Their arrests make national headlines
and add to concerns that the upcoming

gathering could easily get out of hand.

Astoundingly, they were sentenced to a
year in jail.

The message was clear. We are going to
come down on you hard.

September 20th, 2019.

I think behind those gates is something
that nobody can explain, not even the

people that work there.

I have no answers, but I'm going to find
out. That's why I came here 3 ,000

miles to find out those answers.

On the day the event begins, the
Department of Defense posts an ominous

It features a picture of a B -2 bomber.

along with a heading that states that
this is the last thing millennials will

see if they attempt the Area 51 raid
today.

The tweet is quickly deleted.

They made a case of saying that it would
be considered an act of terrorism, even

saying we would bomb millennials if they
actually tried to storm the gates of

Area 51.

That was a little severe.

Now, they cleverly didn't exactly say
what would happen, but there was a

palpable threat left hanging in the air.

Faced with the military's willingness to
defend Area 51 at all costs, many

potential attendees change their plans
and decide not to attend.

But while the government warnings are
largely effective, on the night of

September 20th, nearly 100 people
refused to be intimidated and gathered

gates.

I think behind the gate there could very
well be...

uh technology that the government is not
informing us of there's a lot of people

that are like watching this event being
like this is the night this is the night

we find some aliens people are prepared
for a

bloodbath but i've seen nothing the cops
have been out in a show of force and

they're going to make it very unpleasant
for anybody who crosses

Both sides show restraint, and a
potentially deadly confrontation is

Only two people are detained by
authorities for minor offenses.

Over the next three days, approximately
3 ,000 more people make the journey to

Area 51 in a show of solidarity and in
protest of government secrecy.

There's a huge alien community around
the world.

this was going to happen. I don't think
the government's being honest because I

think they would freak us out if they
told us what was inside that big old

mountain there.

But there are many who believe that
without the serious threat of military

action, the turnout might have been
significantly larger.

The government caused a lot of confusion
and pretty much discouraged most people

from showing up to the event.

In the days and weeks leading up to
September the 20th, there was a mass of

confusing reports about what might
actually take place.

And one wonders, did this play into the
hands of the government and work to

their advantage?

If government threats did indeed
suppress the turnout at the Area 51

what could they be protecting?

Is it only military secrets or something
else?

For ancient astronaut theorists, the
answer is obvious.

So it seems a lot of people are asking
the same question.

What is it that the government is hiding
at Area 51?

The United States began with a policy of
lies and denial. Let's call it for what

it is.

Counterintelligence.

UFOs and ETs have been at the top of the
counterintelligence list since World

War II.

Our government doesn't want us to know
the truth.

We know for a fact that for over 50
years, not just the U .S. government,

governments from around the world have
always denied the UFO question or the

extraterrestrial question.

Could the U .S. government be hiding not
only crashed UFOs, but even

extraterrestrials at Area 51?

Perhaps further clues can be found at
the very entrance of the secret base, an

entrance that has been strictly off
-limits for decades.

Could Area 51 truly harbor
extraterrestrial secrets? And if so...

How did it all begin?

Perhaps answers can be found in the
murky history of the mysterious Desert

We actually have to go back to the
attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

The government said we can never allow
something like this to happen again.

So let's move or create some of these
installations and facilities further

the country.

Area 51 was built around a salt flat
known as Groom Lake.

A runway now slices across the dry lake
bed.

The reason why Groom Lake was chosen was
very simple.

Groom Lake itself was a dry bed, but it
was extremely long and it could double

as a huge runway.

Some of these aircraft required long
runways.

For many years...

Area 51 enthusiasts were able to watch
with high -powered binocular lenses and

see base activity.

None of that is possible anymore.

They've gone to great lengths to keep
whatever's happening at Area 51 a

For the better part of a century, the U
.S. government denied the very existence

of Area 51.

But why?

The official Area 51 now admitted by the
government.

is this facility where aircraft were
developed and test flown.

The U -2 spy plane, the SR -71
Blackbird, and of course, more recently,

technology. That's the official Area 51.

Highly secret, secure, remote.

But then there's the unofficial Area 51,
where people say that there was an even

bigger secret there.

And that was...

for terrestrial technology.

who has lived in nearby Rachel, Nevada
for 15 years, has been a firsthand

witness to Area 51's recent history.

What's the strangest interaction you've
seen of people coming in or out of the

base? Heavy construction equipment going
into the base when they were doing

construction. And also sometimes you see
military vehicles being dragged into

the base. They set them up inside the
bombing ranges for shooting targets.

Just pull over here.

There's a sheriff's vehicle coming our
way. We don't want any trouble. We don't

want to block them. We don't want to go
any further.

This is extra security.

I don't think we've ever seen quite this
much.

In light of the tension surrounding the
Storm Area 51 event, the military has

implemented a zero tolerance lockdown at
the gate of the secret base.

So, here we are. I think this is about
as far as we can go. The point of no

return, right?

Yes. We cannot go any further. All this
barbed wire here, all these security

measures, this is the point at which, if
you take one step further, the full

force of security will come down on us,
right?

Make no mistake, we step one step into
their territory and everything is going

to change. If I came up here, is anybody
going to talk to me? Are they going to

say anything to me?

No. These are signs that spell out in
plain English, bad things are going to

happen to you if you cross this line.
Right.

It's very clear.

So now look.

If we walked past that barrier, up that
road, what would we see? What would we

find? We would be walking down about 20
miles, a paved road, into the valley

that Area 51 is located in.

In between here and the base, there's
more security checkpoints, there's more

road sensors.

If you were to get to Area 51...

You're standing there and you look
around and it looks like any other

air force base.

But the good stuff is all in hangars. It
is not out in the open. It's not like,

you know, they got the saucer right
there on the runway.

So there are hangars, obviously, but
there are even rumors of huge

facilities, facilities carved into the
sides of the mountains.

There are people that talk about
underground facilities.

They keep tabs on people.

Watch the base. They know exactly when
somebody's up on Tikaboo Peak, for

instance, one of the view spots of the
base.

Located 26 miles from the Area 51 base,
Tikaboo Peak is the only public land

where people can actually see the Groom
Lake runway and hangars.

And they know exactly, okay, right now
is a good moment to fly our good stuff,

and that's when they bring out the good
stuff.

I've actually been on Tikaboo Peak when
they did a test flight, and it was the

most amazing thing.

We look at the base, and all of a
sudden, in the middle of the night, all

runway lights come on. I mean, it's the
most amazing thing to watch. All of a

sudden, the desert in front of you,
below you, becomes alive.

You see a light taxiing to the runway.

The light takes off.

The runway lights go out. The light goes
out.

And that was the end of that.

I mean, literally, feet above the
runway, the lights just went on.

Ultra high security.

I mean, whatever that thing was, clearly
they were really trying to protect it

and minimizing that anyone could get
eyes on it.

Correct.

Could claims that the U .S. military
discovered otherworldly spacecraft be

Might some of post -war America's
greatest technological accomplishments

been the result of reverse engineering
alien vehicles?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and
insist that the truth about Area 51 was

actually revealed decades ago.

Not by UFO enthusiasts or
whistleblowers, but by two of the men

for maintaining the government's most
vital secrets.

Burbank, California.

June. 1943.

In the midst of World War II, the
government presses the Lockheed Aircraft

Corporation to develop the next
generation of military planes.

Jet fighters designed to outflank
propeller aircraft and help turn the

war.

A team headed by Lockheed engineer
Clarence Kelly Johnson.

delivers the first production model in
just 143 days.

Their P -80 shooting star initiates the
jet age for the U .S. military.

Kelly Johnson's secret research and
development team ultimately becomes

Skunk Works.

Clarence Kelly Johnson was the first
head of Lockheed's Skunk Works division

back in the 50s and 60s up until 1975.

He's the developer of the U -2 spy
plane, which was able to fly at the

incredible altitude of 80 ,000 feet,
equipped with photographic capabilities

that were astonishing.

And he is a great legend in the aviation
community, for sure.

Despite his mainstream credentials,
Johnson becomes the primary witness to a

-famous UFO sighting in Agoura,
California, on December 16, 1953.

His report of the encounter.

and his personal sketches of the craft
were preserved by Project Blue Book, the

U .S. government's official account of
the UFO phenomenon at the time.

He was with some of his colleagues at
the time when he saw a very, very

object that he could not explain in any
kind of technology that was familiar to

him at the time.

During an era of official skepticism
about UFOs, Johnson risks his career by

reporting the sighting to his superiors.

But instead of being penalized or
demoted, Johnson is seemingly rewarded

years later when he plays a pivotal role
in founding America's most secret

military base, Area 51.

Kelly Johnson was the person that
identified the location where Area 51 is

good strategic location.

It is fundamentally located in the right
part of the world without prying eyes.

But was Area 51 founded merely to test
experimental aircraft, as the military

insists?

Or did Kelly Johnson choose the location
as the best place?

To reverse engineer the very alien
spacecraft he believed he saw with his

eye.

Kelly Johnson died in 1990 without ever
disclosing the secrets of Area 51.

But a key person in his inner circle
openly expressed his belief that

extraterrestrials are present on Earth.

Burbank, California, 1975.

Aviation designer Benjamin Robert Rich
succeeds Kelly Johnson as the second

director of Skunk Works.

He will eventually become known as the
father of stealth.

Ben Rich was one of the real legends of
the history of American aviation and the

classified world in general. And he's
famously known as the man who was really

behind the design.

of the F -117A Nighthawk, that's the
stealth fighter, which would

aviation in the 1980s and 90s.

Another aviation expert and colleague,
Jim Goodall, heard rumors that Ben Rich

had information confirming the existence
of UFOs. So he decided to ask Point

Blank what this legendary head of Skunk
Works really believed.

Mr. Ben Rich was a friend of mine.

And just before he passed away, I asked
him, I said, do you believe in UFOs? He

said, Jim, we have things out in the
desert that are 50 years beyond what you

can comprehend.

Not what you think you can build in 50
years, but what you can comprehend.

And if you've seen movies like Star Trek
and Star Wars, we've been there, done

that.

To me, I think it was a deathbed
confession.

This is a man that would know.

what technologies we have in our
inventory as humans and what we don't.

Ben Rich was a believer in UFOs. I think
beyond believer.

I think he knew.

But of all the people who worked at Area
51, perhaps the most famous, or

infamous, is Bob Lazar.

No one has been more inflammatory or
controversial.

As far as alien enthusiasts are
concerned, Lazar has done more to turn a

previously unknown military base in the
middle of an obscure Nevada desert into

the white -hot center of America's
obsession with UFOs, aliens, and

conspiracies.

But who is Bob Lazar, and what did he
see at Area 51?

Las Vegas, Nevada, May 15, 1989.

who among us has not heard about an
alleged UFO cover -up. On local TV

KLAS, investigative reporter George
Knapp interviews a man going by the name

Dennis and shot in silhouette to hide
his identity.

The man claims to work at the secret
military installation that the U .S.

government still maintains does not
exist.

And according to him, the base does, in
fact, hold extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Exactly what's going on up there? Well,
there's several, actually nine flying

saucers, flying disks, that are out
there of extraterrestrial origin.

Here was someone who claimed to have
worked at Area 51 back engineering alien

technology.

UFOs that had cracked off of it,
Roswell, and trying to figure out how

were.

And then...

Maybe building one ourselves.

Frightened that the government might try
to harm him if he remains anonymous,

the whistleblower and reporter George
Knapp wrestled with the idea of

his name.

The day that we unveiled his identity to
the world, he's in the station and he

grabs the tape. He said, I've changed my
mind. I'm not going to do it.

Right up to the end, he was fighting it
and arguing with himself about whether

it's a good idea.

Even though his life had been
threatened, his life had been turned

In the end, the whistleblower decided to
come out of the shadows and reveal his

name, Bob Lazar.

The one good thing Bob Lazar did was
came forward with George Knapp in 1989

May 15th. And by doing that, he
protected himself.

He was scared for his life.

And he protected himself by telling you
what happened to him in one shot,

straight up.

From that day onward, Bob Lazar has
remained the most controversial UFO

whistleblower in history.

And going public came at a heavy price.

A price many believe was exacted by a
government determined to hide the truth

about Area 51.

Not only was Bob's house broken into and
they'd move stuff around, they'd write

things on the wall.

He's got an Uzi peeking out the window.
The fear was real.

The threats that were made against him
were real. The surveillance was real.

Faced with such harassment, Lazar
retreated from public view for decades.

I don't like being in the public eye.

I don't have money for doing this. And
quite frankly, I could make up a better

lie, but I have no motivation to lie.

But if Bob Lazar's claims are true, just
how much could he expose about what's

really going on at Area 51?

On December 4, 2018,

Lazar finally decided to end years of
silence.

and tell his full story to filmmaker
Jeremy Korbel in an explosive

entitled Bob Lazar, Area 51, and Flying
Saucers.

In the late 1980s, the U .S. government
had recovered alien spacecraft,

several of them, and the technology in
the Nevada desert that they were keeping

quiet and allied.

That's a fact.

That's all my story was, was that I was
just one of the people working on these

craft.

There probably wouldn't be this
awareness of Area 51 without Bob Lazar.

And now we have the film, and suddenly
he's back in the media and the public

eye.

The most extraordinary technology that
Lazar claims to have encountered at Area

51 was an alien reactor.

one that he believes has the potential
to change the world.

The first time they showed me the
reactor in operation, just seeing

like that immediately starts that whole
change reaction in your mind, going,

wow, wait, if you can do this, we don't
need jet and rocket engines anymore.

Wait, there's no use for cars. I mean,
boom, the whole thing changes the entire

world, the economy, everything would go
end on end just if we had...

an answer to how that machine worked
that I was sitting there touching.

Jeremy Korbel's documentary caused a
sensation, bringing Bob Lazar and Area

into the spotlight once again.

Ultimately, it provided the spark that
ignited the Storm Area 51 movement.

We're all here thanks to Bob Lazar and
his good work and bravery, to be honest.

I think, you know, with the Internet,
we're just going to continue to see more

and more people explore the ideas. It's
going to grow hotter and hotter as

people continue to question.

Is the U .S. government still operating
a longstanding campaign to suppress the

truth about Area 51?

Perhaps further clues can be found in
information exposed by other

whistleblowers, whistleblowers who claim
that Bob Lazar isn't the only one.

who has discovered the truth and then
been harassed and discredited by the U

government.

Critics of Bob Lazar and his audacious
claims about alien craft being studied

Area 51 insist that there is no proof of
him ever having worked at the top

-secret military facility.

They suggest that his stories are simply
made up.

But a powerful new witness has come
forward to corroborate Lazar's story,

Air Force pilot David Freehoff.

It's only been for me personally in the
last few years, all of a sudden Bob

Lazar's statements and all the things he
had said have gelled now to the point

where I think he's very credible.

While critics routinely claim that
Lazar's supporters lack any credibility,

can hardly make that claim about
Freehoff.

Beale Air Force Base, 1967.

U .S. Air Force Captain David Freehoff
joins an elite group of pilots flying

America's most sophisticated spy plane,
the SR -71.

I was an SR -71 pilot for four and a
half years.

The aircraft, as far as performance
went, it was an hour from coast to

It would warp your mind with that kind
of performance.

And you just felt so proud that you had
an opportunity to fly that airplane and

to be a part of that unit and those
people. It was family.

No one is surprised.

when the military assigns such an elite
pilot to duties at America's most top

-secret Air Force base.

I worked at Area 51 for six years from
1979 to 1985.

You had to have a special clearance, a
top -secret SBI, special background

investigation.

Fortunately, I had gotten that.

while I was flying the SR.

So it was an easy transition for me to
move from the SR -71 and my clearances

and all over into Area 51.

Along with his colleague, Freehoff
commuted each day from McCarran Airport

Las Vegas to Area 51 using a mysterious
government carrier named Janet

Airline.

One of the great stories about Area 51
comes from engineer T .D. Barnes. Here's

what he said. If there are UFOs being
reverse engineered at this base, I

wouldn't know about it because you flew
out in an airline, Janet Airlines, and

the windows were blacked out, so you
didn't know where you were going.

Freehoff noticed that on his daily
commutes, a select group of scientists

military personnel also boarded the
Janet 737 in Las Vegas.

When the plane landed at Area 51, this
group boarded a bus and headed to an

more secretive facility codenamed Site
4, or S4.

When I was there, we knew about S4, but
we didn't know what they did. All we

knew is there were certain people who
got on the 737 in the morning, and we

to Area 51, they would take and go off.

in a different direction than a bus, and
then we went on to the north going up

towards the hangars.

Freehoff never knew exactly what was
going on at Site 4 during his time at

51.

But when he heard Bob Lazar's story
years later, he found that Lazar's

description of flying to Area 51 on a
Janet 737 and traveling to S4 rang true

every detail.

When I heard Bob Lazar describe getting
on the 737 and fly to Area 51 and get

off and go through the terminal and go
to S4, and everything he talked about

and the way he put it, he sounded
totally believable to me.

Critics contend that no actual
eyewitnesses have ever come forward to

that Lazar worked at Area 51, much less
at Site 4.

But Freehoff claims otherwise.

I know people that had worked for me,
that after I left there, they had seen

Lazar there, and they admitted that to
me recently.

I know that his critics piled on because
obviously they did not want the word to

come out that there were in fact UFOs in
our possession, and that he was

revealing... the capability to perhaps
our enemies that we in fact were alien

technologies but dave freehoff is not
the

only highly regarded aviation expert to
corroborate bob lazar's explosive story

jim goodall is a u .s air force veteran
military historian and investigative

author who befriended bob lazar before
Lazar was hired to work at Area 51.

Back then, Lazar worked at the Sandia
Nuclear Lab in Albuquerque and was a

UFO skeptic.

I have the distinction of knowing him
for quite a while.

He had been working and developing
nuclear weapons for Sandia.

You couldn't put a gun to his head to
convince him that UFOs were real.

But Bob Lazar's skepticism about the
existence of UFOs was about to change.

A year later or so, there's a
silhouetted guy talking about doing

engineering on alien spacecraft, and
that silhouette was Bob Lazar.

In an effort to help his friend prove he
worked at Area 51 and Site 4, then

Sergeant Goodall took Lazar's military
tax form.

to the Office of Naval Investigations at
the Pentagon.

What happened when he got there was
chilling.

There's a young lieutenant commander
behind the desk.

I handed him Bob Lazar's W -2.

He looks at it, said, excuse me for a
minute.

He said, the admiral will see you now.

I mean, an admiral to go talk to an Air
Force tech sergeant is really below his

level of...

He's looking at Lazarus W -2, and he
said, Sergeant, I don't know where in

hell you got this, but if I ever see
your face cross my threshold again,

be the most sorry son of a bitch NCO in
the United States Air Force as he gets

Bob W -2 and he puts it in the shredder.
He says, you are dismissed.

So he was warned.

to stop asking questions about Bob
Lazar.

Anybody trying to seek the truth about
Bob Lazar, there was pressure applied on

them. And that's just the way it works
when you want to try to silence

Have the kinds of pressures exerted
against Bob Lazar continue to obscure

search for the truth about Area 51?

If so, will such secrets continue to
remain out of reach to the activists of

Storm Area 51 movement?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned, that will depend on a new

generation of truth seekers and a
powerful movement that is just beginning

take shape.

Rachel, Nevada, September 2019.

The Storm Area 51 event comes to an end
without incident.

Here in Rachel, people were fearing the
worst.

And so everybody's coming out here to
really defeat what was going to happen.

We're out here making a safe event for
everybody.

I think the order has come down.

We do not want mass arrests here. We do
not want trouble.

You know, they had a few arrests, and
other than that, they didn't have any

incidents at all. Everybody behaved.

When we look at all the disinformation
circling the event of Storm Area 51,

the media, from the government, from
social media, it made a convoluted mess

that was easily something that most
people just chose to avoid.

Amid what some consider to be a
concerted government effort to

believers, many doubt whether the Storm
Area 51 movement can last, while others

hope that this small beginning will
blossom into something much larger.

What we might find when we look back on
this is that this was the beginning of

some sort of cultural movement.

Something that will grow year on year.

We might find that it starts as just
maybe a small one -off event, but

into something with global recognition.

You're all part of this. Become active
participants, not passive observers.

and it becomes a mainstream event.

I think a lot of people, particularly
due to pop culture, know of Area 51 and

they accept it as gospel that there
really are UFOs and aliens out there.

That sort of demonstrates how the public
is coming around to the idea that alien

life is a reality.

For some people, the events were a good
time and a fun weekend.

It could turn a handful of people into
the next decade's prominent researchers

on UFOs and government secrecy and
flying saucers and government corruption

and the military industrial state.

We are at a revolutionary moment.

You've got an entire generation of young
people now.

who have been galvanized and they will
be looking for legitimate, credible news

about high strangeness on this planet in
numbers that have not happened before.

For many, the gates of Area 51 are both
real and symbolic.

Real in the sense that the gates may
hide evidence of an actual alien

on Earth.

Symbolic in that they represent the
government's wider determination.

to cling to secrecy for as long as
possible.

The U .S. government has kept so many
secrets from the people that I think

that's a major driving force for people
to come here.

I don't know if this is a movement that
we're seeing, but people want to know

the truth, right? And they want to know
if there's secrets being kept from us.

And I think if that forms a movement,
that would be awesome.

What's behind those gates is one of the
last mysteries.

Aliens. I think the only way to get the
government to come up with answers is to

keep the pressure on. Keep demanding
answers.

A new generation has to continue to
demand answers and do what the past

generation failed to achieve.

In the end, some believe that the heart
treatment once suffered by Bob Lazar is

being repeated today in the government's
response to the Storm Area 51 movement.

They fear that under the onslaught of
official intimidation, the drive for

answers will slowly fade and the secrets
of Area 51 will remain hidden.

But others are determined to make this
modest event the beginning of a mass

movement that will ultimately force open
the gates of secrecy to finally reveal

that both in the universe at large and
right here on Earth, we are not alone.