Fb has shut down the “Storm Space 51” occasion web page which had attracted over two million UFO fans… below the pretext of violating ever-elusive “group requirements”

Again in July a tongue-in-cheek fb occasion was created inviting folks to a raid on Space 51, the extremely secretive army base in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The occasion prompted the US army to challenge a robust warning to residents in opposition to storming the amenities.

Nevertheless, the occasion creator Mathew Roberts is now planning a real-life pageant to interchange the tongue-in-cheek raid. It is because of happen on September 20th, the day the facetious raid was attributable to go down

RT studies: Spooked by the excessive quantity of attendees, anxious in regards to the Las Vegas strip membership’s pledge to deliver its dancers to entertain the plenty, or offended by one of many hundreds memes posted by the group, Fb abruptly eliminated the “Storm Space 51, They Can’t Cease All of Us” occasion web page over the weekend. The backup web page, arrange by the organizers, was additionally worn out, because the social media large discovered the “content material posted to this occasion” to be in violation of “group requirements.”

Annoyed would-be raiders regrouped on Reddit to share their theories, whereas others continued to flood Twitter with Space 51 memes. Many agreed that Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg “is secretly an alien from Space 51 and he doesn’t need us to know.”

Some identified that everybody knew the time and the place already, and the raid may nonetheless happen. “Fb hasn’t heard of the Streisand impact,” one other opined.

Whereas the much-memed occasion started as a joke, native enterprise homeowners have reported that each one close by motels are booked for the dates surrounding September 20 – not that there are a lot of. Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee defined that even 500 sudden guests may throw the world into chaos, creating visitors and parking issues for the 5,200 residents within the desert municipality.