Government silent after raid of Area 51 website owner's homes

the FBI and U.S Air Force aren't talking

about the reason two dozen agents

allegedly busted down the doors in a

pair of Nevada homes that was earlier

this month a

report on the search for

more properties owned by the owner of a

website that focuses just on area 51.

Nevada's top secret military base York

arnew gave his only on-camera interview

to Chief investigator George Knapp

the website dreamlandresort.com has a

new Rye addition to its content this

week endorsed by the FBI and U.S Air

Force a sarcastic reference to the

November 3rd events that upended the

life of the website's owner jorg arnu my

life has been very much turned upside

down by all this Arno has managed the

site since 1999. it's a central

Clearinghouse for anything and

everything related to the world's most

famous secret base there's absolutely

nothing that I would consider classified

or that I know to be classified on my

website it's pretty much the same stuff

that you find on other websites also and

I've repeatedly actually stated in my

discussion forum that if ever anyone has

a legitimate issue with what I'm posting

let me know and I will take it down two

teams of federal agents more than a

dozen in each group bashed in the doors

of two homes owned by arnu one in tiny

Rachel Nevada not far from the base and

one in Las Vegas They seized computers

phones files along with a wealth of

personal property but our news still has

no idea what they were after he says 40

or so pages of the search warrant are

sealed probably a justification for the

search but at this point I don't know

what it is Area 51 has become so well

known and draws so many curious people

to its boundaries that the public

sometimes forgets just how strenuously

the government defends its secrecy

I found 31 or 32 of them so far in the

early 2000s a friend of our news fellow

Area 51 Watchdog Chuck Clark took us on

a tour of public lands surrounding the

base to reveal a network of motion

sensors hidden in the dirt to warn the

base when anyone approached days after

our news report aired Clark's Rachel

home was raided by The Joint terrorism

task force his computers and cameras

were seized Clark moved out of the state

and left Area 51 behind and more

recently when a Facebook prank Drew

thousands of UFO curious to the desert

to supposedly storm Area 51 the base

beefed up its already strong internal

security but also amassed an

overwhelming show of law enforcement

might outside the base to discourage any

Knuckleheads from crossing the line the

excessive secrecy surrounding 51 has

likely fanned the Flames of public and

media curiosity which is one reason our

news website exists at all what's the

big secret the public wonders Arno says

his attorney told him he will likely

never get his computers and cameras

returned even though it's unlikely he

will ever be charged with the crime he

thinks this was entirely about sending a

strong a vague message at this point I

don't know exactly what I'm up against

but my best guess is that because my

residence is close to Area 51 and my

website Dreamland Resort is kind of

prominent in the field that I'm being

used to send a message to the area 51

community and my concern is how far will

that go sending that message George

Knapp 8 News Now