The Kid That Organized The Area 51 Raid Now Wants To Turn It Into A Music Festival Instead

Time- The man behind the “raid Area 51” Facebook event is suggesting a much less dangerous event — an EDM music festival in the Nevada desert. Matty Roberts’ event jokingly suggested storming the secretive U.S. military facility near Rachel, Nevada, in the hopes of discovering the truth of what lies beyond the center’s gates. But that doesn’t mean the 1.9 million people “attending” the event understand its satirical nature. In a recent interview, Roberts suggested these alien seekers and others turn their sights toward an EDM festival in lieu of the proposed raid.

“I want to make it like a festival of sorts,” Roberts, a college student, told KERO-TV. “I want to have a bunch of different musical artists, everybody from the EDM world and then maybe some indie rock, maybe some smaller guys that are up and coming.” Roberts also said he has been in touch with local hotels in Rachel, so the planning might really be in the works. Apparently, musicians and bands are interested in the possibility of an Area 51-themed music festival. “I’ve had a lot of people DM’ing the page saying their bands want to play there, which would be super cool,” Roberts said.

Yes, yes, yes, a million times YES! As someone that loved everything about Fyre Fest and the subsequent Fyre Fest documentaries, I cannot be more behind something more than I am behind Area 51 Fest. If you thought the stories that came out about Instagram models, influencers, and trust fund babies going to what was essentially a parking lot in the Bahamas was fun just wait to see what happens when you get a bunch of festival kids meeting up near an active government base in the middle of the fucking desert.

But once the drugs kick in and the crazy people that actually think that storming Area 51 is a real thing show up, there is no telling what kind of chaos is going to go down. Aliens escaping, fighter jets being deployed, good old fashioned heat exhaustion. Yet no matter what happens, I can ensure you that Andy King will not be able to suck enough dicks to erase the amount of Grand Theft Auto Wanted Stars everyone will have for showing up to an event anywhere near Area 51. Billy McFarland must be crying himself to sleep in the clink at the mere thought of missing out on planning this catastrophe.