Driving home on a dark, secluded road, the two nearly run over Reid, who is inexplicably standing in the roadway in a daze.

Together with Jelena, another conspiracy theorist whose father worked at Area 51, they contrive to sneak onto the military base using signal jammers, night vision goggles, Freon-laced jumpsuits, and pills to mask their ammonia levels.

Ben, Reid, and Darrin follow the man home from the airport, sneak into his house, and steal his security badge.

Eluding the guards, Darrin narrowly escapes a predatory alien and retreats to the base's higher levels.

The chamber suddenly loses gravity, revealing them to be on board a silver alien spacecraft, from which Reid's camera falls and plummets to the ground.

Darrin explains their group was separated, and he frantically urges Ben to drive away; however, the car's engine dies.

[7] On April 23, 2015, it was announced the film would open exclusively in Alamo Drafthouse theaters and through video on demand platforms on May 15, 2015.

[8] The film was released in Alamo Drafthouse theaters exclusively for a weekend-long-run, and on video on demand platforms beginning on May 15, 2015, courtesy of Paramount Insurge and Blumhouse Tilt.

[13] In a review where he gave the film no stars, Bob Brinkman of HorrorNews.net wrote: "Area 51 is an interesting concept, with mediocre delivery, and a scare factor of zero.

It is lazy film making at its worst, and it is easy to understand why the movie sat in the can so long (six years) prior to being released.