LAS VEGAS — A Nevada man who operates a website focusing on the remote formerly top-secret U.S. military base Area 51 - long an object of UFO and space alien lore - said Thursday that military and federal investigators raided his homes in what he called a bid to muzzle him.
“I believe the search, executed with completely unnecessary force by overzealous government agents, was meant as a message to silence the Area 51 research community,” Joerg Arnu said of the Nov. 3 raids at his homes in Las Vegas and the tiny desert town of Rachel.
“I am not a spy,” Arnu said in an email to The Associated Press.