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Okay. Chelsea, I have either definitely not good

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news or also not good news, but different kinds

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of news. Wow. Those are really nice choices.

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I'm going to go with the second one. I think

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definitely not good news, but a different kind

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of news. Yeah. Okay. And I didn't want to call

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it good news. But you'll understand when I start

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reading why this is not bad. Okay, this comes

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from the Daily Mail, which, you know, take it

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for what it's worth. Yeah. I had to report on

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this one, though, because it's just such a good

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title. Written on July 16th, 2025 by Stacy Liberatore,

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article title, Enormous Fire Breaks Out by Area

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51, Sending UFO Watchers into a Frenzy. A massive

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fire has broken out near the infamous Area 51,

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sending plumes of smoke into the sky and UFO

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enthusiasts into a panic. A live stream camera

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set up on private land just outside the heavily

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guarded Groom Lake facility near Rachel, Nevada,

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captured eerie footage of smoke rising from deep

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within the classified base. The blaze was sparked

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by the Gothic fire, which has grown from 8 ,000

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acres to 35 ,000 since starting on July 4th.

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It has been confirmed as a lightning -sparked

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wildfire. not stop speculation from spiraling

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online, with conspiracy theorists claiming everything

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from a crashed experimental craft to a cover

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-up gone wrong. Quote, I'm not saying anything

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other than it was aliens, end quote, Skywatch

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Signal, a group that monitors strange sightings

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shared on X. Area 51 has become a cultural phenomenon

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thanks to decades of conspiracy theories connecting

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the base to UFOs, aliens, and experimental aircraft

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testing. While the fire is around 15 miles outside

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the military base, it is currently sweeping over

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where above -ground nuclear testing occurred.

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Oh, that's terrifying. The Nevada Test Site,

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which is 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. This

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site, now known as the Nevada National Security

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Site, was established for nuclear weapons testing

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during the Cold War, and there is still nuclear

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debris and contamination in the area. Oh, good.

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Better send it up into the stratosphere. Yeah.

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With the fire. I just hope they're not north

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-leading winds. They're generally not. Let's

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just keep it down there. Yeah. Let's. The fire

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is under the jurisdiction of the Department of

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Defense, which is listed as the landowner for

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Area 51 and surrounding regions. The Gothic fire

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is primarily spreading through northern Nevada,

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gaining fuel as high temperatures and low relative

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humidity hit the state. Is that not just, like,

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they say hit the state, is that just not the

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normal state of existence in Nevada? You bring

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up a good point, yeah. High temperatures and

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low humidity? Yep. I guess not, though. Apparently

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not. This is different. Yeah, this one's different.

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The area is also littered with timber, specifically

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pinyon and juniper and grass, allowing the fire

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to continue its path of destruction. Despite

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the fire's growth, no evacuations have been ordered

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and no structures are threatened. It's currently

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0 % contained with no estimate of full containment.

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Wow. 0%. That is ridiculous. But I guess they

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got no water to fight it with, do they? Not only

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that, I mean... despite the UFO enthusiasts freaking

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out, like, there can't be much around. No, it's

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a desert, and also they even said - Yeah, they're

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probably just like, eh, let it burn. They even

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said it's still 15 miles away, so I don't know

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if it's that concerning to them. And my guess

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is they would keep debris away from the site

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itself so that they could have a clear sight

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of people coming. Brian Cross shared on X, quote,

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sitting in the Vegas airport at this moment,

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grand smoky off towards Area 51, end quote. Area

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51 is a highly classified US Air Force facility

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located within the Nevada Test and Training Range,

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approximately 83 miles north -northwest of Las

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Vegas. Officially known as Groom Lake, the base

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is situated near a dry salt flat of the same

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name, nestled between the Nellis Force Range

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and the Rugged Groom Mountain Range. It lies

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just outside the tiny desert town of Rachel Nevada

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along the so -called Extraterrestrial Highway

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which is formerly called Nevada State Route 375.

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The base established in 1955 remained largely

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unknown until 1989 when Bob Lazar claimed on

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TV that he worked at a security site near Groom

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Lake S4 studying alien technology and spacecraft.

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The US Air Force and the government have denied

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those claims. The footage has sparked wild conspiracies

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online with one ex -user saying quote are they

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trying to destroy evidence now that a congressman

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has asked for access to Area 51?" Another user

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asked if people, quote, finally stormed Area

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51, end quote, recalling now 500 ,000 people

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committed to rushing the base in 2019. The owner

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of the livestream, EWU, crew posted an alert

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about the fire saying quote a fire has broken

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out inside the boundaries barry 51 and our cameras

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are capturing it in real time the live stream

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is operated from private property overlooking

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the area 51 perimeter near rachel nevada Watch

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day and night as activity unfolds. Strange lights,

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aircraft, convoys, and now smoke rising from

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inside the base were located only minutes from

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the back gate of Groom Lake. End of quote, end

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of article. Yeah, maybe I can put a link to that

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live stream in the episode description just so

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everybody can see it if they want to. I don't

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know if the fire will be out by the time we put

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this episode out, but it sounds like it's really

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far away from being under control. So my question

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is like why are people freaking out about this?

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It seems very... And I was thinking, are they

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thinking they're trying to destroy evidence?

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And then the first X thing was that they think

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they're trying to destroy evidence. Well, and

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it seems like the only people who are freaked

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out are the UFO enthusiasts. I mean, I would

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consider myself a UFO enthusiast, and I'm not

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that freaked out by it. No, but you also don't

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have a live stream set up of Area 51. And I feel

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like if you have a live stream set up very 51,

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if there's anything exciting that happens, you've

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got to talk about it. That's true. It also does

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close my tab with my live stream. I do also have

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to be bothered by the fact that the only things

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that they use for sourcing in this article is

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X accounts who are commenting on it. They did

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really avoid putting any up that had any racial

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slurs in it, which is nice. That is nice and

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hard to come by. Yeah. Gotta say, I don't actually

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go onto X, but from what I hear... We really

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just operate off vibes for X. So if anybody has

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anything different to tell us, go ahead and tell

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us. We're probably still gonna just find out.

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It's like a mystical thing. It's like a mystical

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place where all the racial slurs and horrible

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people hang out. And the Nazi and Nazi adjacents,

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yes. Yep. They love it there, from what I hear.

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Hey, you guys got 48 hours, don't go there. It's

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vibe negative there. Anyhow, bye.