UFOs are currently trending mostly because of the ridiculousness of this proposed idea, which any REAL UFO researcher or military employee would strongly urge against for the safety risk, and Roswell retrieval is long gone from the area. Another reason this story has gained some attention is that Bob Lazar is back in the spotlight since Jeremy Corbell’s “Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers” has drawn the attention of a new wave of viewers since it hit Netflix. The film focuses on the “awesome and fearsome” experience Lazar has dealt with post his days allegedly reverse engineering crafts around Area 51. Lazar has done the media rounds, and his story has surfaced again to attract some mainstream attention.

So, you take Lazar’s story, Corbell’s film landing on the most-popular streaming service, and this hot topic of raiding Area-51 to “see them aliens” and you have clickbait heaven for any news media site. When a story like this is hot, news sites will milk it for as many clicks as possible, but often at the expense of more important stories. In this case, Storm Area-51 is hot, and some stories those in the UFO community are excited for aren’t gaining that front-page momentum that started with the Pentagon UFO program story the New York Times broke.