Hundreds of people began arriving at the gate Friday. They came in tinfoil hats and orange jumpsuits. One guy arrived in his pajamas holding a bottle of liquor. They posed for pictures. Many sprinted the last 100 yards before stopping at the gate.
Jebb McAfee drove down the narrow desert road as far as he could and parked near some other cars alongside the scrub brush. In front of him and his two friends was a barricade, a stop sign and a dream.
The trio strode past the barrier toward the entrance a few hundred yards away. Police vehicles came into view. So did cameras on top of tall poles that watched them right back. An armed man in military fatigues — along with a German shepherd — stood behind a red-and-white gate arm.McAfee and his friends stopped. It was all they had hoped it would be.At 2 a.m.
Roberts tried to dissuade people from rushing the military base by offering them an alternative: “Alienstock,” a music festival that would be a cross between Burning Man, Woodstock and Comicon. Pat Travis, the owner of the inn, pushed ahead with her own concert festival, a three-day event she called A’Le’Inn-Stock.
“I think this has the chance to be a cool event for many years down the road,” said her mother, Lisa LoBasso. “It’s definitely the most unusual event we’ve been a part of.” “As long as you don’t cross the barrier, they were fine,” he said in front of his car, with the words “Raid Area 51” painted in green on the back window. He said nobody tried to cross the gate.
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