Storm Area 51 creator fears 'humanitarian disaster,' pulls out of own music festival
Picture Burning Man organized by the Fyre Festival bros, but with little gray aliens running amok.
That's what event creator Matty Roberts was worried the AlienStock music festival in southern Nevada was going to turn into, so he's pulled out of proceedings, with just over a week to go.
"Due to the lack of infrastructure, poor planning, risk management and blatant disregard for the safety of the expected 10,000+ AlienStock attendees, we decided to pull the plug on the festival," Roberts and his team announced via the AlienStock website. "We are not interested in, nor will we tolerate any involvement in a FYREFEST 2.0."
Back in July, Roberts' joke Facebook event "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" went viral, with two million people worldwide clicking that they were "Going" to the highly classified US Air Force facility in Rachel, Nevada, to "see them aliens." ...