A look at some key dates and events leading up to this week’s Storm Area 51 events. June 27 — Matty Roberts creates the tongue-in-cheek “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” event on Facebook.

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 use of the name ...

RACHEL, Nev. (FOX5) -- The alien invasion may be over, but a legal battle is brewing between the participants and organizers of Alienstock, an event that stemmed from the viral sensation “Storm Area ...

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 ...

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 ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...

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 ...

The new Netflix documentary Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 revisits the viral Facebook event that began as a joke but quickly gained traction, attracting more 3.5 million people "I had no idea what I'd ...

Despite a low turnout for the first Alienstock in 2019, it may be happening again. The event was inspired by an event titled "Storm Area 51." The event page urged people to go to the military site and ...