Area 51 is important not because of what it actually is. I think it's important at least to the UFO community for what it has become mythologically.

Area 51 is undoubtedly one of the most important like

legendary places within UFO discourse.

It is the hub of a lot of

you have a lot of you have a myth.

So to all the individuals involved in Storm Area 51

and all the individuals who are interested in it and promoting it or even bashing

it all comes from this place of understanding that Area 51 rather is so steep in UFO lore and legend to try and disconnect that stuff from what is really there is is most likely impossible.

Area 51 is like a hyper real place, right?

The my or the UFO community's interpretation of what Area 51

is more real than the real thing.

To kind of quote you too in this.

It's kind of like a euological Disneyland, I think,

where everything is fake and real simultaneously I don't know you know area

51 is a military base it's an Air Force base it's part of Edwards Air Force base it's a

massive basically open desert area. The actual

Area 51 structure is quite small, it's only a few series of small hangers, and that's really it. The rest of it is just a giant field range

that's just bare ass desert where they just blow stuff up all the time just to test out, I don't know, prototype weapons or whatever.

That's kind of what really it is.

It is, yeah, it's a very active range.

Yeah, it all began.

Yeah, it all began, and it's funny, it all began in 1980. Two journalists in Las Vegas were doing some investigating into what this strange base was just outside of of of Rachel Nevada and and it was their names were Ed May and Kevin Stodel I think and one worked for KLAS which CNN, Las Vegas TV affiliate, and one worked for the Nevada Post or something,

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