'Trying to shut your mouth': FBI raids owner of Area 51 website

A Nevada resident who runs one of the websites said military and federal investigators had searched his homes. Its website is dedicated to the former top-secret US military base Area 51, which has long been an object of knowledge about UFOs and aliens. Therefore, he believes that they are trying to shut his mouth. Read more about the incident told the publication CBS News.

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“I believe the search by overzealous government agents was intended as a call to shut up the Area 51 research community,” Jörg Arnoux said in a statement about the Nov. 3 searches of his Las Vegas, Nevada, home and tiny desert city of Rachel. “Now the question is, how far will they go?”

"I'm not a spy," Arnoux assured. “Like the vast majority of my website readers, I support the military. And we understand the need for secrecy to ensure the security of our country.”

In a statement posted on his Dreamland Resort website, Arnoux wrote that the searches "came without any warning."

"I was only told it was related to the images posted on my Area 51 website," he explained.

Arnoux specified that he was left outside while the agents ransacked the house. He was shown several pages from a huge search warrant.

“At the moment, I do not have a clear understanding of what I am accused of, or why my property was confiscated,” said Arnoux. “Mobile phones, memory cards, backup drives, my almost $10 worth of photography equipment, my drone, everything was taken.”

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Arnoux said that another group of agents broke down the door of his Las Vegas home, detained his girlfriend, and then conducted another search.

“She was taken outside in broad daylight in full view of all the neighbors, and then the house was searched,” said Arnoux.

Lt. Col. Brion McGarry, head of public relations at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, said he knew Arnoux's property had been searched by agents of the FBI and the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations. But, McGarry said, he can't provide any further information.

Arnoux has owned and operated his own website since 1999, subtitled Area 51 Secrets Revealed.

The site is often described as a collection of YouTube videos taken from drones flying around Area 51, satellite imagery of the base, a discussion forum, and articles about UFOs, test flights, and mysterious "black projects."

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Arnoux consults with his lawyer, although he refused to give his name. He is convinced that the materials on his website are "lawfully obtained and legal to publish", but he still removed some of them "to defuse the situation."

“Given how this happened, I do not intend to remove any further material unless a federal judge orders it,” he said.

Arnoux's house in Rachel is one of a group of apartment buildings in a roadside town built around a quaint, 10-room, alien-style motel called Little A'le'Inn, about two hours from Las Vegas.

This location, located next to one of several remote gates to the sprawling military complex Area 51, caught the world's attention in September 2019. Then more than 2 million people responded to the Facebook prank, where they were invited to storm Area 51.

Amid fears that tens of thousands of people (about 3000 people arrived) would come to an unregulated event and overload the local infrastructure, they created a territory for the festival, which eventually became known as Alienstock.

Arnoux said at the time that people who knew little about camping in the harsh desert would freeze at night, get upset, and go home angry.

"They won't find what they're looking for," he said.

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