Facebook Post Inviting Alien-Fanatics Gets 600K Sign-Ups

San Francisco: A viral Facebook post, calling out to alien enthusiasts from around the world to gather in Amargosa Valley, Nevada and storm into the restricted Area 51 region on September 20 has already listed 600,000 people who say they are “going” to the event.

Hosted by accounts “Shitposting cause im in shambles” and “SmyleeKun”, the post has also collected 569,000 people who say they were “interested” in storming into Area 51, a controversial region that has tickled generations of conspiracy theorists. According to the event’s organisers, they are more interested in the content that could be seem interested mainly in the amount of content like Internet memes and video games the event could generate, NBC news reported on Friday. (IANS)

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