Posted on 07/14/2019 5:24:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Just yesterday we were discussing what I’m still holding out hope turns out to be one of the most widespread pranks in history. Nearly 400,000 people have signed on to a crackpot scheme on Facebook to “storm” Area 51, the top-secret military base located near Groom Lake in Nevada. The guy who actually started it is assuring the authorities it was a joke (and begging not to be arrested) but his followers don’t all seem to agree. The situation is being taken seriously enough that the Air Force actually responded to a question about it. While not coming out and specifically threating to burn all of these people to cinders if they cross the fence, they sure sounded like they were implying it. The following was offered up by Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews. (The Hill)
Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews declined to elaborate on specific details.
However, she did issue a warning to those who may be serious about a plan to infiltrate the Nevada Air Force base.
“[Area 51] is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces,” McAndrews told the paper.
“The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets,” she added.
The Air Force stands ready to protect America and its assets. And you can rest assured they have plenty of assets out at Groom Lake. Whether it’s the next generation of stealth fighters being developed or an interstellar cell tower so ET can phone home, they don’t allow anyone in. The other assets they have on hand include both Apache choppers and fighter jets.
Depending on how you read the spokeswoman’s rather veiled comments, it’s not hard to imagine that she’s hinting at precisely what I was suggesting yesterday. If one or two people show up and try to sneak in, odds are some guys in an SUV will show up, tackle you, detain you for questioning for a few days and then let you go. But if more people than can be tackled all swarm the place at once from multiple entry points, particularly if it looks like some of them will make it to the airstrip, what do you think they’re going to do?
Do you really think they wouldn’t give the order to just start ripping the crowd up with weapons? That’s an awfully big assumption to literally bet your life on.
Our Air Force and other military officers take the same oath as most elected officials. They will protect against “all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Don’t become one of those domestic enemies. You won’t like how it ends.
For those who are really curious about what Area 51 looks like but don’t want to wind up as a grease stain in the middle of the desert, here’s one of the most recent videos anyone managed to take of the base. A guy and his son scaled their way up to the top of Tikaboo Peak, from which Area 51 can be seen at a great distance. You’re not supposed to climb that mountain, but they managed to not get caught. The guy dragged up a video camera with an extremely powerful zoom lens and start filming. Spoiler alert: He didn’t see any aliens.
AREA 51 FROM TIKABOO PEAK PART 1 (THE BASE IS VERY ACTIVE)
let’s roll
SPECTRE. Its not just for taliban anymore.
They are our servants, our agents. They answer to us, we don’t answer to them.
The services are the military of the deep state.
Dig it?
Strange how absent that steely determination is when it comes to, say, defending the southern border.
I agree on the signs and deadly force...but these people seem to think that if you had a hundred-thousand people going through the fence, they simply wouldn’t shoot the hundred-thousand. There might be fifty to a hundred dead in the first minute, but would the security guys just continue on? I’m not so sure about it. Then you can ask the question...how much ammo do these security guys carry on them? Maybe two-hundred rounds each?
This could turn into some massive event dragging Congress into hearings and asking a lot of stupid questions.
C-130, phosgene
Same for larger numbers. Guards are not interested in talking or handcuffing you.
Have you ever been Microwaved ? LOL
that’s the nighttime option. Daytime option for large crowd control is Mr Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrt
Were you drunk? Did you actually know where you were?
The Blue Angels do not fly at Air Force bases. Blue angels are naval aviatrs. were you at NAS Penesacola and jst assumed it was an Air Force facility?
Most of Area 51 is not a classic fence. It is a row of signs.
I think they will only hold you if you trespass is inadvertent or something similar - a deliberate attempt will result in deadly force and that pass of the chopper will not be in front of the crowd ...
Area 51 would be a great place to house crimillegals.
Agree. USAF isn’t going to machine gun a flash mob. Guaranteed.
There are plenty of rattlers that are native in the area.
econdly, the Air Force isn’t going to do anything, they can’t on US soil. The National Guard, local PD and the Area 51 hired security will however, and what they’ll do is arrest any idiot that tries.
Optics imply cameras all of which would be confiscated. They would just be doing their jobs as described. If backlash was the concern then all military bases would be overrun with curious idiots and here would be no such thing as a secure area.
After the first guy goes down, who wants to be the next?
Out in the desert, it would be fairly easy for a helicopter or UAV to dump tear gas on the mob, without affecting innocent bystanders.
It also has a history of one idiot who persisted and was returned in a body bag.
You are extrapolating from a civilian perspective - none will set foot on the base, alive.
“Deadly force is authorized” are not merely words to scare idiots away.
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