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What started as an internet joke became a desert spectacle. From memes to mayhem, Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 unpacks the bizarre viral movement that dared people to “see them aliens.” Stream on Netflix July 29, 2025.

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00:00We're here to rescue the aliens!
00:03What if every fool on the internet...
00:05There'll be two million people here.
00:07Really?
00:09...converged on Area 51?
00:12What would they do? Shoot everyone?
00:14That's why I got a Nightfish fan.
00:17I had no idea what I'd started.
00:21It's a Facebook event that started as a joke,
00:23but now apparently becoming very real.
00:27We are going to dress as sexy aliens.
00:29We are going out to the desert, and we're getting probed.
00:33Where do you host a million people in the middle of nowhere?
00:37We have a restaurant, camping space, and ten rooms.
00:41That's it.
00:41We were building a city from nothing.
00:44And this whole time, I'm sitting here
00:46with less than $1,000 in my bank account.
00:49It gone out of hand, and it gone out of hand in a hurry.
00:55We're about to store it in one of the most heavily guarded
00:57military bases in the world.
00:59It just seemed like a hilarious idea to me.
01:01Why?
01:03Because the internet told us to.
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