Thailand hosts UFO music festival in city that sect claims is ‘Area 51 of Asia’

It didn’t take long for the aliens to reveal themselves. Thailand’s first UFO music festival hadn’t even started when a shimmering vessel sailed through the twilight sky over a hilltop that’s become a transdimensional conduit for representatives of a galaxy-spanning alien federation.

At least that’s the fast-held belief of those who trek to Khao Kala, where devotees believe an ancient stargate makes such encounters possible. As the sun dipped towards the sugar cane-field horizon on January 12, Siwadon Chantanasewi and a dozen-or-so other festival crew members had ascended the nearby hill to take in the sunset when Khao Kala lived up to its hype.

“I was just saying that the aliens probably knew that the event was happening and would seize the chance to show they are real,” Siwadon said. “I thought they might fly past, maybe just pop by for a moment. I had this strong feeling.”

Within moments, he felt goosebumps from head to toe. “That’s when the UFO appeared to our right. It was a very large ship. It was the brightest thing in the sky,” he added. On video shot from his phone, a pulsing ball of light is seen passing overhead and changing course in defiance of Newtonian physics.

This is all apparently very normal stuff at Khao Kala. It’s here in the central province of Nakhon Sawan that a Buddhist UFO sect says it has been communicating with two extraterrestrial members of a so-called Milky Way Federation for over two decades. And they have brought bad news: doom is coming for Planet Earth.

Local officials who were once uneasy over the controversial sect’s growing repute and apocalyptic vibes – Khao Kala’s meditation centre was raided four years ago and shut down for allegedly encroaching on protected land – have gone from