Two million people promised on social media to show up at the gate to Area 51, the secret U.S. military installation, to find out if aliens are real. In reality, only a few thousand showed up. Sydney ...

Alien hunters are heading to Area 51. They're hoping for a party, or a peek at UFOs - depending on who you talk to. For decades, the U.S. military base deep in the Nevada desert was rumored to be the ...

The life cycle of a meme is fairly predictable. Usually, it goes something like this: an image, phrase, or an image paired with a phrase gains traction on a site like Reddit before branching out to ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...

RACHEL — Musical families like the Jackson 5 are known for their musical talents, but the Morrows are good for more than just that. When the Facebook post about Storm Area 51 first popped up, Jeremy ...

RACHEL —A bored college student in Bakersfield, California, logs onto Facebook and creates an alien-themed event as a goof. Two weeks later and more than 400 miles away, a small Nevada town is thrown ...

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