Storm Area 51 creator fears 'humanitarian disaster,' pulls out of own music festival

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CNN
Maureen O'Hare
Updated 11th September 2019

(CNN) — Picture Burning Man organized by the Fyre Festival bros, but with little gray aliens running amok.

That's what event creator Matty Roberts was worried the AlienStock music festival in southern Nevada was going to turn into, so he's pulled out of proceedings, with just over a week to go.

"Due to the lack of infrastructure, poor planning, risk management and blatant disregard for the safety of the expected 10,000+ AlienStock attendees, we decided to pull the plug on the festival," Roberts and his team announced via the AlienStock website. "We are not interested in, nor will we tolerate any involvement in a FYREFEST 2.0."

Back in July, Roberts' joke Facebook event "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" went viral, with two million people worldwide clicking that they were "Going" to the highly classified US Air Force facility in Rachel, Nevada, to "see them aliens."

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It's dead Jim!

[Cyber Liberty]

Trying to hold a music festival in the middle of a desolate High Desert, where there's no electricity or water, is beyond idiotic.  Woodstock made more sense.

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Trying to hold a music festival in the middle of a desolate High Desert, where there's no electricity or water, is beyond idiotic.  Woodstock made more sense.

I wonder how burning-man does it? They are in a desolate area in the middle of nowhere, and yet they get 10s of thousands of people every year.

[Cyber Liberty]

I wonder how burning-man does it? They are in a desolate area in the middle of nowhere, and yet they get 10s of thousands of people every year.

It's different terrain north of Reno, I guess.  If some truck-sized generators can be driven in, and some water it's doable.  That area of southern Nevada, however is more like Phoenix without the cactus.

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Matty Roberts heard a knock at his door.

[Smokin Joe]

It's different terrain north of Reno, I guess.  If some truck-sized generators can be driven in, and some water it's doable.  That area of southern Nevada, however is more like Phoenix without the cactus.

There's cactus down there, and joshua trees, too. But very little surface water outside of stock tanks. Not a porta potty for tens of miles.... I worked a well about 20 miles outside the fence in the very early 90s.
You know you're in the boonies, but the overflights were neat. (A-10s, C-130, F-16s)