Area 51, everyone’s favorite military test site turned alien conspiracy theorist hub, is growing—whether its neighbors like it or not.
The Associated Press reports that the huge and ostensibly top-secret base in Nevada plans to take over a 400-acre patch of former mining land that the base has come to encircle following a number of expansions over the decades. The owners of the land have been offered $5.4 million to give it up. But they say that’s not enough.
“Why don’t they ask themselves what it cost my family over the years in blood, sweat, tears and money?” landowner Joseph Sheahan said, according to the AP. Sheahan and his relatives have owned the land for almost 130 years.
via Mental Floss
