'Area 51 Basecamp' organizer Keith Wright said that after drawing just 500 attendees at a Friday event planned for 5,000 at the Alien Research Center souvenir shop in Hiko, he had to pull the plug.
The promoter of an event set up for Earthlings to party in the remote Nevada desert around the"Storm Area 51" internet craze canceled a Saturday show because of low attendance, while the host of a festival for several thousand people in the tiny town of Rachel said her show will go on.
In Rachel, Little A'Le'Inn owner Connie West said she was sad to hear the Hiko festival didn't succeed. He said resources mustered from around the state to handle up to 30,000 people probably won't be needed for the estimated 3,000 campers and festival-goers at"Alienstock" in Rachel.In Nye County, Sheriff Sharon Wehrly reported no one showed up early Saturday at a main entrance and an auxiliary gate at the once-secret Area 51 U.S. Air Force facility.
The sheriff said about 20 people broke from among revelers and"acted like they were going to storm, but stopped short."
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