Federal agents conduct mysterious raid on Area 51 website creator’s homes

Somebody name Mulder and Scully.

Brokers from the US Air Pressure and the FBI raided two Nevada houses owned by a person who operates a web site about Space 51, which runs articles positing theories about what goes on on the prime secret base, officers stated.

The Air Pressure Workplace of Particular Investigations and the FBI entered properties linked to webmaster Joerg Arnu in Las Vegas and Rachel on Nov. 3 and confiscated potential proof, spokesman Lt. Col. Bryon McGarry confirmed in an announcement.

Whereas McGarry didn’t elaborate on the investigation, Arnu runs Dreamland Resort, a well-liked web site devoted to the top-secret Air Pressure base positioned about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas within the Nevada desert.

The bottom is usually the supply of hypothesis by authorities fanatics and conspiracy theorists. Arnu’s 23-year-old web site options images and drone movies of Space 51 and experiences on the comings and goings on the base from individuals who journey to the sting and have a look.

He even writes about experiences of UFOs and aliens on the web site — experiences that he dismisses as false and nothing however a “distraction from the actual function of the bottom, reseaech [sic] and growth of all kinds of Black Initiatives.”

Chatting with George Knapp of KLAS this week, Arnu stated he was all the time cautious to display screen posts for content material that is likely to be legitimately categorised. He stated he discovered the exhausting approach that one thing on his web site crossed the road when the brokers searched his residence.

“I’m asking, ‘Okay, what’s going on? What are you doing in my home?’” Arnu advised the outlet. “I’m trying mainly at this level at a riot defend and a gun that was drawn and pointed at me and an agent in a stern voice giving me instructions.”

Arnu stated many of the warrant is sealed, and he nonetheless doesn’t know what the brokers had been in search of. 

“As it’s proper now, I’ve no clear understanding of what I’m being charged with or why my property was seized,” he lamented. “Cellphones, reminiscence sticks, backup drives, my digital camera gear that’s price virtually $10,000, my drone, the whole lot was taken.”

Brokers additionally entered Arnu’s Las Vegas residence, the place he says they detained his girlfriend exterior in entrance of neighbors whereas the residence was searched, he stated.

In an electronic mail to the Las Vegas Assessment-Journal, Arnu stated he took down some panoramas from Dreamland Resort to “defuse the scenario … though I consider that it was legally obtained and authorized to publish.”

“I’m not sharing something on my web site that can’t be discovered on dozens of different web sites and information outlet publications,” he insisted.

Arnu is assembly together with his lawyer this week, and doesn’t but know if he’s dealing with legal fees. He advised the Assessment-Journal that he’s contemplating authorized motion to retrieve his confiscated gear.

“I consider the search, executed with fully pointless pressure by overzealous authorities brokers, was meant as a message to silence the Space 51 analysis group,” he stated.