Alien seekers have begun to gather in southern Nevada, with two people detained on September 20 near the entrance of Area 51, a military base surrounded by myths of extraterrestrial visitors.

Crowds coming to desert for hoax-turned-festival worry locals, and the Air Force

Residents prepare for influx of people near restricted US military site after online joke received millions of responses

Visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for “Storm Area 51” are from Earth, not outer space.

One local residents predicts that the people who show up to raid the military facility won’t “find what they’re looking for, and they are going to get angry.”

In places near Area 51, they are preparing for a possible "invasion" of people from all over the world. Nobody knows exactly what to expect. Will a million people will really turn up there, both locals and security officials wonder. However, the military has tightened security and recently arrested two Dutch tourists who entered the protected area.

No one knows what to expect about the “Assault on Area 51” event, but the two small cities of Rachel and Hiko, located near the military research site that was once a secret, are preparing for an influx of people in the coming days.

Visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for "Storm Area 51" are from Earth, not outer space.