Area 51 memes: The best Twitter posts as 1.2m RSVP to Facebook event to 'raid' restricted US Air Force base

Guard Gate at Area 51 (Groom Lake, Dreamland) near Rachel, Nevada
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Tom Herbert20 September 2019

Upwards of one million people have vowed to "Storm Area 51" in September as part of a wacky online bid to "see them Aliens".

The "Storm Area 51" Facebook event hit the headlines after attracting pledges from 1.2 million people desperate to prove alien activity is taking place at the restricted US Air Force base.

Conspiracy theorists have claimed for years that alien activity takes place at Area 51.

Now the furore surrounding the event has sparked a whole new range of interstellar memes.

Here are some of the best.

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