--- title: Make a Quick Getaway With the Best Area 51 Alien Memes description: Twitter users guess what it would be like to find an alien at Area 51 with all of the memes. canonical: https://time.com/5626450/storm-area-51-alien-memes/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-15T15:16:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:30.261Z og:title: Make a Quick Getaway With These Area 51 Captured Alien Memes og:description: Twitter users guess what it would be like to find an alien at Area 51. og:url: https://time.com/5626450/storm-area-51-alien-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eb91870909fbfda/6989fff586f68e98906ed38e/stormarea51alienmemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Rachel, NV og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Make a Quick Getaway With These Area 51 Captured Alien Memes twitter:description: Twitter users guess what it would be like to find an alien at Area 51. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eb91870909fbfda/6989fff586f68e98906ed38e/stormarea51alienmemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Make a Quick Getaway With the Very Best Captured Area 51 Alien Memes > Sponsored content. 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(Photo By: MyLoupe/UIG Via Getty Images) MyLoupe—Universal Images Group via Getty by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 15, 2019 3:16 PM UTC Last week, [Area 51 hit the headlines](https://time.com/5625420/area-51-petition/) when over a million people signed up to a [Facebook event](https://www.facebook.com/events/448435052621047/?active%5Ftab=about) suggesting civilians raid the secretive military base to to finally “see them aliens.” Area 51, which makes up part of Nellis Air Force Complex in Nevada, has long captured the imagination of conspiracy theorists because of the intense secrecy surrounding the facility and its work, leading some to speculate that it houses aliens and their technology. While people are seemingly signing up for the tongue-in-cheek event all in good fun, the military is warning against any jokesters making good on their Facebook promise and showing up at the remote and highly-classified military site in person. When reached for comment by [_The Washington Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/07/13/half-million-people-signed-up-storm-area-what-happens-if-they-actually-show-up/?utm%5Fterm=.b773ae98ea1f)on Friday, Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews issued a warning: “\[Area 51\] is an open training range for the US Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces,” McAndrews told the paper. “The US Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets.” Since most people will undoubtedly heed the military’s warning and stay away from [Area 51](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1860871%5F1860876%5F1861006,00.html), their interaction with [aliens](https://time.com/alien-life/) is limited to sharing memes on Twitter that speculate what it would be like to actually find aliens in Area 51. See the best [Area 51 alien memes](https://time.com/alien-life/) below. > [](https://twitter.com/realistzen/status/1149642158506311680) > [](https://twitter.com/Caleb%5FBrentley/status/1149663097533059072) > [](https://twitter.com/brklynn17/status/1150091031066664961) > [](https://twitter.com/j%5Fmping/status/1149668212553834497) > [](https://twitter.com/irritatingshit1/status/1149614355375198208) > [](https://twitter.com/tastyana2/status/1149579757970837506) > [](https://twitter.com/MikeDaveD/status/1149658040347422720) > [](https://twitter.com/juanjose7%5F/status/1149565015625592834) > [](https://twitter.com/cloutlessrat/status/1149642978341691393) > [](https://twitter.com/birdhusband/status/1149556868680863750) > [](https://twitter.com/niallmoran%5F/status/1149641207041032193) > [](https://twitter.com/lilaltoidfyb/status/1149677446972747776) > [](https://twitter.com/ImBarbaraPool/status/1149698451694919680) > [](https://twitter.com/matthewjmartin%5F/status/1149657473671786498) > [](https://twitter.com/Gabriel%5Frod12/status/1149730952534528003) > [](https://twitter.com/eli%5Fbashi/status/1150593789297385472) > [](https://twitter.com/baratingz/status/1149990967950241792) > [](https://twitter.com/Kenyaa%5Fsophia/status/1150540612296482816) > [](https://twitter.com/JFlecTV/status/1149987731642077189) > [](https://twitter.com/aquajacky/status/1150132963193102336) > [](https://twitter.com/Jfishwinning/status/1150483922700161024) > [](https://twitter.com/absinners/status/1150139335662022656) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5626450/storm-area-51-alien-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5626450/storm-area-51-alien-memes/"},"headline":"Make a Quick Getaway With the Very Best Captured Area 51 Alien Memes","datePublished":"2019-07-15T15:16:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:30.261Z","description":"Twitter users guess what it would be like to find an alien at Area 51.","url":"https://time.com/5626450/storm-area-51-alien-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","memes","AREA 51","apollo1150"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eb91870909fbfda/6989fff586f68e98906ed38e/stormarea51alienmemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eb91870909fbfda/6989fff586f68e98906ed38e/stormarea51alienmemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rachel, NV","caption":"area 51 alien memes","creditText":"MyLoupe—Universal Images Group via Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5626450/storm-area-51-alien-memes/","name":"Make a Quick Getaway With the Very Best Captured Area 51 Alien Memes"}}]}] ```