Who created the 2019 Facebook event “Storm Area 51”?

Matty Roberts created the 2019 Facebook event “Storm Area 51.”

Roberts published the event on June 27, 2019, under the title “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.” The joke invited people to raid the secretive Nevada military installation to search for aliens, with the slogan that they could move faster than bullets by running like Naruto. Roberts later said the idea was intended as satire.

The event rapidly became an internet sensation. More than two million Facebook users eventually marked themselves as going, while another 1.5 million expressed interest. The attention produced related festivals, including Alienstock in Rachel, Nevada, and Storm Area 51 Basecamp in Hiko.

The actual gathering on September 20, 2019, was much smaller than the online response, and nobody successfully entered the restricted facility. Bob Lazar and Jeremy Corbell were associated with the conspiracy-themed inspiration, but neither created the Facebook event. Roberts is the specific answer for its creation.