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 ...

Alienstock is on and people have gathered in the Nevada dessert for this weekend’s festival. By Friday morning, the alien-inspired shenanigans had already begun, with a clip of one extraterrestrial ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Remember last month’s viral Facebook event “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” that racked up over a million RSVPs despite being obviously a joke (“If we naruto run, we can move faster than ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can you combine two events that are never going to happen into a festival that might actually occur? Harnessing the disorganized energy of both the torpedoed Woodstock 50 festival and a farcical Area ...

Were you planning on storming Area 51? This festival is for you. The creator of the viral Facebook event page calling on people to “Storm Area 51” and “see them aliens” meant it as a joke. But when 2 ...

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 ...

Alienstock — the Nevada desert music festival that grew out of a joke Facebook event to plan to "Naruto run" into Area 51 — is battling reports that it's not ready to host thousands of people, after ...

The creator of “Storm Area 51” pulled out of Alienstock, the main event tied to the Facebook hoax-turned-phenomenon, citing concerns about the event’s organization and funding. “It’s a fantastic ...