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The man behind a viral Facebook page to invade Area 51 has now come forward to say it was “completely satire” and the joke has gotten out of control.

Matty Roberts created theFacebook event page “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” telling people online, “We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Centre tourist attraction and coordinate our entry… We can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens.”

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He didn’t realize his comical call to invade one of the most secretive and mysterious locations on Earth would become a rally cry, but after keeping a low profile, Roberts told KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, he never planned on invading the Nevada military base.

“I tried to make it seem as much as a joke as I possibly could but there are definitely some people taking it seriously,” Roberts told George Knapp from KLAS-TV.