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Brits Shown To Stay Away from Area 51 Dublin comedian Andrew Maxwell held at gunpoint by FBI while making UFO documentary Irish Central A BBC film crew, including Dubliner turned London resident Andrew Maxwell, was arrested at gunpoint by what was thought to be the FBI. The 12-man crew were visiting the famous top secret Area 51 site in Nevada, where it is claimed bodies of aliens are held. The crew were making a documentary for the BBC3 called “Conspiracy Road Trip.” They ignored warning signs and slipped past security to film inside the fence. Minutes after breaching security they were surrounded by armed guards brandishing M16 assault rifles. The guards forced the crew taken. This was at approx 6:15pm. to lie face-down for three hours while the FBI “For three hours we lay face down until TOP 10 ran security checks. the Lincoln County Sheriffs arrived on scene. UFO expert Darren Perks (34), one of “Things then eased off a bit and we were HORROR FILMS the crew, told the Sun, that one of the cops told all then taken one by one off the restricted area OF 2011 him “Listen, son, we could make you disappear to the sheriffs who issued us with a ticket and and your body would never be found.” grilled us about what we were doing. We all got They were fined $600 and allegedly fined £375 each. ordered not to reveal what they had seen at Area “We were told that this incident was so #10) Apollo 18 51 if they had seen anything at all. serious that Washington had to call London to However Perks said, “We didn’t see advise that 12 'Brits' had just breached security #9) The Woman anything except a bit of tarmac.” at America's most top-secret military base and #8) Final Destination 5 Perks told the Daily Mail online, that we all were at one point going to jail for six “Basically the concept of the trip was to tour months.” #7) Fright Night across California, Arizona and Nevada with This same BBC crew caused outrage #6) Paranormal Activity 3 comedian presenter Andrew Maxwell and four early this year in Britain for suggesting that the people who had an interest in the UFO 7/7 attacks on London were coordinated by the #5) Grave Encounters phenomena. government to boost support for the Iraq war. #4) Super 8 “We went to Area 51 in Nevada firstly The blast in the center of the London because it’s related to the UFO phenomena and city killed 52 people when four suicide bombers #3) Troll Hunter secondly so we could do a nighttime sky watch detonated their home-made devices. [] #2) I Saw The Devil to see if we could spot anything unusual.” When the crew arrived to the “Back Comments Relating to This Story: #1) Insidious Gate” of Area 51 they could not see any guards or vehicles. (1) shirley says: Perks continued, “We filmed for The group got a little too enthusiastic and the approximately 30 minutes and tried to call the guards words were not very well chosen. guards but there was no one there and no sign of them. (2) Jeff says: “So we all decided to walk past the That stuff is off limits for a reason. It’s called barriers onto the restricted area past the security national security. Turns out every self-righteous huts and basically onto Area 51. Nothing halfwit with media credentials DOES NOT happened....” have the right to go there. It wasn’t until some time later that They ought to count themselves lucky. drama ensued. “We filmed again for another 30 minutes (3) jcd says: and even messed around doing a silly dance, but Unfortunately, in my lifetime I will probably still no guards,” Perks explained. never know what is really there. Is it just “Then one of the other stars of the trip national security type things, or that plus ufo pointed out that on looking through one of the type things that we can only wonder about? security hut windows, she could see the guards all sitting down eating dinner and watching the (4) Keith says: basketball game on TV. They did nothing. With this country being on alert for terrorists, “So after a few more minutes and a few did a foreign media crew really believe that just more picture taking and filming, one of the crew because they carry media credentials that they decided to speak to the guards and knocked on would be given free passes to a highly secure their hut door. All hell broke loose. military research facility? There are signs all “The guards rushed out with their around that say trespassers will be met with weapons and forced us all to lay face down at deadly force. They are lucky to have met the gunpoint in the tarmac. sheriff, they could be sitting in Gitmo right now. “We were all searched, had our phones, wallets and IDs taken and the film equipment