The Little A'Le'Inn claims they lost money... Really?
Pricing for camp sites has been removed from the Alienstock Parking web site. For those interested what the Inn charged, and for the record, here is a screen shot from their web site. Click to enlarge the screen shot. And yes, we do have a count of occupied camp sites. The numbers have been reported to the Lincoln County planning department and to other concerned agencies.
The Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel claims they lost money in the 2019 event. Let's see... According to conservative estimates the event drew about 3,000 people to Rachel. Camp sites were sold for between $80 and $130, media spots for $1,000. We counted 85 occupied RV Spots ($140 each), 15 media spots ($1000 each), 350 camp sites ($80-130 each) and 500 parking spots ($60 each). You do the math. Per the Cease and Desist letter below we cannot legally do it for you.
Soon after the Alienstock event everyone at the Little AleInn bought brand new cars. Sure, everyone does that after just losing a lot of money.
05/17/2021 Media Coverage: Lawsuit over Alienstock settled for $26,000
The Little A'Le'Inn won a lawsuit against the Hidden Sound LLC, their former partner in the Alienstock event. A few days before the event the parties had a falling out over money and safety and the Hidden Sound LLC pulled out of the chaotic event planning. According to news reports (see below) the Inn received a settlement of $26,000. So, on top of the money they made from the event and the money they made from increased business after the event they just made another $26k selling out our town. We expect they will push for another event and we are fully prepared to fight it to save our town.
09/25/2020 Media Coverage: A year after the Area 51 alien 'raid,' one small town is still cleaning up the mess
09/18/2020 Media Coverage: Storm Area 51 still affects tiny Nevada town a year later
The Little A'Le'Inn now claims Alienstock 2019 cost them $200,000 (with every media interview that number seems to be going up...). One has to wonder: If they lost so much money, why are they so determined to do another event?
09/11/2020 Rachel Webmaster's home invaded by trespassers
Today, on the date the cancelled Alienstock 2020 was scheduled to happen, a team of thugs with cameras besieged the residence of the creator of this web site. The apparent goal of the harassment was to provoke a reaction and to pressure us into giving them an interview. Instead they got to chat at length with the sheriff's deputy and were cited for trespassing. But the footage is out there and we expect the location of our residence to be exposed on the internet. Copycats be warned: We will take appropriate action to protect our residence and our privacy.
07/27/2020 Highway to Rachel (almost) re-paved
Highway 375 was re-paved a few weeks ago. A long overdue repair. Unfortunately, because the county had to spend over $250,000 on Alienstock last year after the organizers failed to take control there was not enough money left to pave the road all the way to Rachel. The last 20 miles remain the old buckled and cracked pavement. So if you visit Rachel and notice the highway being in rough shape, know that it is a direct result of Alienstock 2019.
The residents of Rachel want to thank the Little A'Le'Inn for that!
05/23/2020 Media Coverage: There will be No Alienstock 2020
05/18/2020 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
Update 05/18/2020: In today's meeting the Little A'Le'Inn stated that they had failed to secure a sponsor for Alienstock 2020 and that there will not be an event this year. However, they are still advertising the event and they mentioned plans for a similar event in future years.
Concerns of Rachel residents regarding Alienstock presented to the County Commissioners by Rachel resident Joerg Arnu under agenda item #16. No motion was made following the presentation.
04/12/2020 Decision about Alienstock 2020 Postponed
Because of the Covid-19 crisis discussion about a permit for Alienstock 2020 has been postponed to the May 18 Commissioners meeting. Seeing that even the Burning Man event, which was to take place around the same time, has been cancelled this year it seems even less likely that Alienstock 2020 will be permitted.
We do not want tourists to bring the virus to Rachel and we will fight even harder now to keep our community safe.
03/02/2020 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
Concerns of Rachel residents regarding Alienstock 2020 presented to the County Commissioners by Rachel resident Joerg Arnu under agenda item #26
Read the concerns of the Rachel residents above. From the discussion after we presented our concerns it is very clear that neither the County Commissioners nor any of the other County offices involved want this event to happen again. They all agree this event does not benefit our county and it never will. It hurts our county. We certainly hope that the business promoting the event will, for once, put the common good ahead of their own profit and not pursue the event.
02/17/2020 Little A'Le'Inn announces dates for Alienstock 2020
No event permit has been issued. Still the Little A'Le'Inn announces the dates for Alienstock 2020 and promotes the event in the media. With no event permit issued they are promoting an illegal event.
02/06/2020 Lincoln County Record: Officials to revamp large events ordinance
Article in the online edition of the Lincoln County Record by Dave Maxwell.
01/25/2020 Lincoln County Record: Commissioners may update special event codes after Storm Area 51 issues
Article in the online edition of the Lincoln County Record by Dave Maxwell.
01/22/2020 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
Under item #11: "For Possible Action: Approve/Deny a Resolution proclaiming the non support of an Area 51 Event for 2020."
Unbelievable! Our county commissioners have not learned a thing from the 2019 event! The greedy folks from the Little A'Le'Inn fed them more lies and the commissioners are going to allow the Inn to present plans for another event for 2020. References were made to stricter requirements, but considering how the agreed-upon requirements were completely ignored in the 2019 event this is meaningless. It looks like the concerned Rachel residents will have another battle to fight to protect our town and our county.
01/18/2020 Lincoln County Record: Commissioners wouldn't support potential 2020 Area 51 events
Article in the online edition of the Lincoln County Record by Dave Maxwell summarizing the Jan 6, 2020 Commissioners Meeting
01/06/2020 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
Under item #12: "For Possible Action: Approve/Deny payment of the unpaid portion of travel to the Sparks Fire invoice for their response to Area 51 incident."
Unbelievable! The commissioners were actually discussing and entertaining the option to not pay a Sparks department that came to our rescue during the Alienstock event over a technicality. Fortunately sanity prevailed and the motion to pay the money owed carried.
Under item #14: "For Possible Action: Discussion concerning the 2020 Area 51 special event."
A lot of the problems with the 2019 event that were discussed, such as unlicensed vendors and no accountability for actual vendor income, were brought up to the commissioners by the concerned Rachel residents BEFORE the event. But, better late than never, a motion was approved "to draft a resolution citing that the Commission does not support a 2020 Area 51 special event". How much more complicated can you make this? Just say you were wrong to approve the 2019 events and a 2020 event will not be permitted.
From the Minutes: "Jared commented we never wanted the Area 51 event; ... Bevan agreed" With all due respect, that is not true! The commissioners voted UNANIMOUSLY to issue two event permits for the 2019 Alienstock event. If they did not want the event all they had to do is not approve the permits.
12/16/2019 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
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No reference to Alienstock in the meeting agenda; but several agenda items mention moving funds around, likely to cover up the extent of the Alienstock cost for the county after Governor Sisolak refused to bail out Lincoln County from the financial mess the commissioners have created
12/10/2019 Governor Sisolak refuses to pay for Alienstock
Gov. Sisolak skeptical of Storm Area 51 relief funds request (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Governor Sisolak refuses to pay for Lincoln County's expenses for the botched Alienstock event. He told the Lincoln County commissioners: "I don't know how this was an emergency when you gave an approval despite our concerns regarding this issue, and then expect the taxpayers of the state to basically bail out your county commission's approval"... No vote was taken. It seems that our County Commissioners are getting a taste of their own medicine. They refused to hear the concerns of Rachel residents that this event would put a huge financial burden on our county. Well gentlemen, there you have it. We told you so!
11/18/2019 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
No reference to Alienstock in the meeting agenda or minutes
11/04/2019 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
No reference to Alienstock in the meeting agenda or minutes
11/04/2019 Matty Roberts and Co. suing the Little A'Le'Inn
Secret audio recordings, allegations in Area 51 counter lawsuit - Connie West: '...I don't need to prove to you a mother f****** thing'
Two of the points raised in the law suit are that the event was planned and permitted under a different name and for only 500 people as uncovered in the documents on this web site. Make no mistake; there are no good guys in this. But in this case we are glad we were able to help with our document disclosure.
10/21/2019 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
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No reference to Alienstock in the meeting agenda
10/07/2019 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
Concerns of Rachel residents AFTER the Alienstock event presented to the County Commissioners by Rachel resident Joerg Arnu
Once again the commissioners failed to understand the validity of the Rachel residents' concerns. None of the proposed action items were voted on
10/04/2019 Cease and Desist Letter from the Little A'Le'Inn to the Rachel web master
I would love to respond (nah, not really!) but unfortunately the email address in the header is invalid.
Update 11/08/19: As expected, nothing came out of this. If there was any truth to the claims in the above letter a law suit would have been filed by now.
09/19-09/23/2019 Alienstock 2019 in Rachel
... and this is what it looked like
09/17/2019 Little A'Le'Inn lawsuit against Alienstock creator and event organizers
Before the event had even started the organizers were suing each other.
09/16/2019 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
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09/12/2019 Cease and Desist Letter from event creators to Little A'Le'Inn
09/03/2019 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
Documents presented to the County Commissioners by the Little A'Le'Inn
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08/19/2019 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
Documents filed with the commissioners by the Little A'Le'Inn
The maps show that the Inn was planning to rent out land in the center of town as well as public land between the frontage road and the highway as camp sites for the event. The document states that they were not planning to close the roads from the event site into town.
Concerns of Rachel residents presented to the County Commissioners by Rachel resident Joerg Arnu
Many of these concerns later became a reality during the event. The commissioners failed to see the validity of the Rachel residents' concerns and none of the proposed action items were voted on
08/16/2019 Festival Operational Agreement
Operational Agreement between The Hidden Sound LLC and the Little A'Le'Inn LLC
This is the agreement between the Inn and Matty Roberts and his group that spells out the responsibilities for the event. It was never signed. According to this agreement:
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08/12/2019 Email from Little A'Le'Inn to Planning Department
Email from Connie West at the Little A'Le'Inn to Cory Lytle, the director of the Lincoln County planning department
Connie ignores the 11pm end time mentioned by the planning department and instead states that "it will be shut down by 2am". Not as a request for permission but as a statement. She also states they expect an attendance of 10,000. Their special event permit application below is for an attendance of 500.
08/09/2019 Email from Planning Department to Little A'Le'Inn
Email from Cory Lytle, the director of the Lincoln County planning department to Connie West at the Little A'Le'Inn
There is again a reference to the event permit application below (for 500 people!) although at this time the number was estimated to be 30,000. There is no mention of the application needing to be corrected. The map shows an area of approx. 45 acres for the event.
It is the responsibility of the planning department to set the rules and plans for the event. Instead they fail to take charge and leave all important decisions up to the Inn.
08/05/2019 Lincoln County Commissioners Meeting
The minutes state that "It is estimated that 45 acres in Rachel will be tied up to house people" and "Connie stated they could see at least 30,000". So, with an event permit for 500, filed only a few days earlier, they now expect up to 30,000 visitors. Obviously the permit application was not filled out truthfully.
Connie from the Inn claims they are working with an event planner who will provide medical, security etc. Who is that? Did anyone verify that claim?
07/31/2019 Special Event Permit Application from Little A'Le'Inn
Special Event Permit application from the Little A'Le'Inn. Note: The application is for an event named "Raid Rachel (Storm Area 51)" and for only 500 people and 100 cars. On 10/04/2019 Cory Lytle, the director of the Lincoln County planning department, confirmed to us over the phone that the event permit was never amended to change the name or to reflect the much larger number of people expected and that actually attended the event.