Events involving thousands of Earthlings answering an internet buzz about an invitation to B次元官网网址淪torm Area 51B次元官网网址� in the Nevada desert have been mostly festive, with crowds numbering in the low thousands and few arrests, officials said.

Three more people were arrested Friday on the remote once-secret military base, Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee said, bringing to five the tally since Thursday of accused trespassers during B次元官网网址淎lienstockB次元官网网址� and B次元官网网址淎rea 51 BasecampB次元官网网址� events and festivals in the tiny desert towns of Rachel and Hiko.

Several minor injuries were reported, and one man was treated for dehydration by festival medics in Rachel before returning to the party.

While costumed space aliens were a common, dayglow, and sometimes hilarious sight, no one reported seeing actual extraterrestrials or UFOs.

B次元官网网址淭hereB次元官网网址檚 a great sense of community among everyone here,B次元官网网址� said John Derryberry, who drove with his girlfriend, Sarah Shore, from Nashville, Tennessee.

B次元官网网址淚t started as a joke and now people are getting to know each other,B次元官网网址� said Tracy Ferguson, 23, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He said the internet gave him the idea to drive to Nevada with his girlfriend, Jade Gore, 19, of Worthington, Minnesota.

Lee said a man reported missing Friday morning after heading Thursday from a festival campground in Hiko toward an Area 51 gate was found safe Friday evening. Details werenB次元官网网址檛 immediately made public, but his disappearance was not believed to have been an abduction.

Almost 100 people went at 3 a.m. Friday to the best-known B次元官网网址渂ack gateB次元官网网址� of the legendary former top-secret U.S. Air Force base, near of the tiny town of Rachel, and another 40 made a more difficult trek to a lesser-known gate in Tikaboo Valley, Lee said.

About 300 went to the Tikaboo gate during daylight, and another 800 people made the dusty 8-mile (13-kilometre) drive to the Rachel gate during the day, Lee said.

One, a woman in her 60s from California, was arrested after making it clear to sheriffB次元官网网址檚 deputies, her husband and everyone around her that she was going to trespass no matter what.

B次元官网网址淚t was just something she wanted to do,B次元官网网址� said the sheriff, who was at the Rachel gate at the time.

Two men were arrested after military security officers found them in the mountains inside the perimeter of the base somewhere between the two gates, Lee said. Authorities were trying to determine how to tow their vehicle out of the rugged area.

The gates are marked by bright floodlights, watchful cameras and, at the Rachel gate, a squat tan bunker building with blackout windows B次元官网网址� all surrounded by razor wire.

The sheriff in neighbouring Nye County reported that about 40 people dispersed after B次元官网网址渉eated warningsB次元官网网址� from officers about 3 a.m. Friday near a base gate not far from a conspicuously green B次元官网网址淎rea 51 Alien CenterB次元官网网址� about 90 minutesB次元官网网址� drive west of Las Vegas.

Matty Roberts, a 20-year-old from Bakersfield, California, who sparked the Area 51 phenomenon with a late-night Facebook post in June and then broke with Little AB次元官网网址橪eB次元官网网址橧nn owner Connie West over production of the Rachel event, hosted a Thursday evening event at an outdoor venue in downtown Las Vegas B次元官网网址� also using the B次元官网网址淎lienstockB次元官网网址� name.

B次元官网网址淎rea 51 BasecampB次元官网网址� was featuring music, speakers and movies Friday and Saturday at the Alien Research Center in Hiko. Business owner George Harris said he expected a crowd of 5,000, but Lee said the audience and nearby campers appeared to number in the hundreds.

Cyril Soudant, 25, of Lille, France, said at the Rachel gate that he was disappointed not to see more people.

Soudant took video for his YouTube channel and said he would wait until Friday night to make a final assessment about the experience.

B次元官网网址淲e all know we canB次元官网网址檛 cross the gate,B次元官网网址� Soudant said. B次元官网网址淏ut if tonight we get together, have some music, have some beers, that would be a success.B次元官网网址�

Ken Ritter, The Associated Press

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