Two YouTubers are arrested for trespassing at Area 51 with cameras and drones just days before thousands were due to 'storm' the military zone to 'see them aliens'

• Govert Charles Wilhelmus Jacob Sweep, 21, and Ties Granzier, 20, of the Netherlands were arrested for trespassing at the secure government facility
  
• Both are YouTubers who go by Govert Sweep, who has more than 700,000 followers, and Ties, who has more than 300,000
  
• The YouTubers were arrested just days before thousands of Facebook users had  planned to  'Storm Area 51' 
  
• Organizers cancelled the event this week over fears of a humanitarian disaster 
  
• Sweep complains in a jailhouse interview that he was arrested for being a YouTuber and not just because he was trespassing
  
• Authorities said they found cameras and a drone inside the car Sweep and Granzier drove three miles into the facility
  
• Both were released from the Nye County Jail after each posted $500 bail. There is no provision preventing them from leaving the country
  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...b9InDJtwF8

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Two YouTubers are arrested for trespassing at Area 51 with cameras and drones just days before thousands were due to 'storm' the military zone to 'see them aliens'

• Govert Charles Wilhelmus Jacob Sweep, 21, and Ties Granzier, 20, of the Netherlands were arrested for trespassing at the secure government facility
  
• Both are YouTubers who go by Govert Sweep, who has more than 700,000 followers, and Ties, who has more than 300,000
  
• The YouTubers were arrested just days before thousands of Facebook users had  planned to  'Storm Area 51' 
  
• Organizers cancelled the event this week over fears of a humanitarian disaster 
  
• Sweep complains in a jailhouse interview that he was arrested for being a YouTuber and not just because he was trespassing
  
• Authorities said they found cameras and a drone inside the car Sweep and Granzier drove three miles into the facility
  
• Both were released from the Nye County Jail after each posted $500 bail. There is no provision preventing them from leaving the country
  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...b9InDJtwF8

They're lucky they didn't get shot or "go missing."

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Two YouTubers are arrested for trespassing at Area 51 with cameras and drones just days before thousands were due to 'storm' the military zone to 'see them aliens'

• Govert Charles Wilhelmus Jacob Sweep, 21, and Ties Granzier, 20, of the Netherlands were arrested for trespassing at the secure government facility
  
• Both are YouTubers who go by Govert Sweep, who has more than 700,000 followers, and Ties, who has more than 300,000
  
• The YouTubers were arrested just days before thousands of Facebook users had  planned to  'Storm Area 51' 
  
• Organizers cancelled the event this week over fears of a humanitarian disaster 
  
• Sweep complains in a jailhouse interview that he was arrested for being a YouTuber and not just because he was trespassing
  
• Authorities said they found cameras and a drone inside the car Sweep and Granzier drove three miles into the facility
  
• Both were released from the Nye County Jail after each posted $500 bail. There is no provision preventing them from leaving the country
  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...b9InDJtwF8

They're lucky they didn't get shot or "go missing."

That was the first thing I thought

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Unsurprisingly this has been a bit of a story over here. But until now I genuinely didn't know the dude's middle name was Wilhelmus. That's like calling your child Jack Star Spangled Banner Smith.

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Two YouTubers are arrested for trespassing at Area 51 with cameras and drones just days before thousands were due to 'storm' the military zone to 'see them aliens'

• Govert Charles Wilhelmus Jacob Sweep, 21, and Ties Granzier, 20, of the Netherlands were arrested for trespassing at the secure government facility
  
• Both are YouTubers who go by Govert Sweep, who has more than 700,000 followers, and Ties, who has more than 300,000
  
• The YouTubers were arrested just days before thousands of Facebook users had  planned to  'Storm Area 51' 
  
• Organizers cancelled the event this week over fears of a humanitarian disaster 
  
• Sweep complains in a jailhouse interview that he was arrested for being a YouTuber and not just because he was trespassing
  
• Authorities said they found cameras and a drone inside the car Sweep and Granzier drove three miles into the facility
  
• Both were released from the Nye County Jail after each posted $500 bail. There is no provision preventing them from leaving the country
  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...b9InDJtwF8

Regarding the part in red.  Him and his boyfriend were arrested for being stupid.

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