On Thursday last week, the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot near Alamogordo was evacuated, along with a nearby post office.
The FBI won’t say how involved it is in the investigation but did say the security issue isn’t about UFO’s or aliens.
As of now the neighbors who live in the community have no idea when they’ll be able to go back to their homes.
Well… now we know how Trump was colluding with the Russians. Trump can dial up all the Hurricanes he wants be he can’t hide what he’s been up to with the Russians in the Solar Observatory.
Seriously though it does seem like an observatory would be some sort of hack-able situation. Don’t they use a lot of radio communication to reach out into space for that sort of thing. Seems like some smart person could hide information within other information if need be. … but not letting residents go home… that sounds like something all together different.
Maybe RocketMan is going to target it with his space ray for proof of concept?
Typical terribly researched and poorly presented C- high school English composition (at best) local (to me) click bait news article. I disagree about the presence of aliens- if this place is occupied by non-native beings it is obviously the undocumented kind, aggressive and hostile to any who don’t share their radical beliefs.
Jokes aside, it seems locals have been displaced- Holloman AFB and White Sands missile range are near Alamogordo. I wonder if there’s some super secret stuff happening.
LOL, now that would be classic. Even the SouthPark guys couldn’t write that one.
Aliens: All your base are belong to us.
Trump: You suck!
Aliens: Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded!
Trump: I’ll destroy your universe and the space horse you rode in on.
LOL, wow, yeah, that would be a trip. Trump greets aliens from another galaxy. Of course the media would accuse him of improper space alien etiquette or some such.
ah, it’s probably nothing. Elon Musk probably smoked some more pot and tried to drill a tunnel under it.
Foreign espionage. Direct view down of Holloman AFB and White Sands Missile Range from that mountain. If I wanted to spy on both of those facilities, that’s where I’d set up my gear. The fact that techs were up on the antennas indicates they were concerned about the electronics involved with that equipment. I would guess the Peoples Republic of China. We’ve had other issues with their scientists here in New Mexico at Los Alamos and Sandia Labs.
Would rank right up there with Nixon being the ONLY world leader to have his name on a plaque, left on the moon. And ironically it will likely be one of the last man made artifacts to exist in approx. 500 million years.
The FBI is the Federal Agency with arrest powers involving foreign Agents involved in espionage within the US. I am guessing this is some high level espionage going on here.
Another reason for FBI leading the charge on this is that the facility sits on Lincoln National Forest Land. All Federal Trust Lands (Military Bases, Indian Reservation, BLM, etc.) use the FBI for their investigative and arrest powers. Fed turf, feds running the show.
Earlier today, the facility’s head said it wasn’t a mercury spill, as had been speculated. Hazmat people would be involved with something like that, not the FBI. Interesting no matter what is going on.
FBI handles internal intelligence agent threats while CIA handles them abroad.
This collaborates with what OH85D posted and IMHO is the most probable explanation of the incident.
Perhaps the most promising suggestion comes from the website The Drive, which notes that the National Solar Observatory “enjoys a wide and largely unobstructed view of both the U.S. Air Force’s Holloman Air Force Base and the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range.” As such, they posit that perhaps the situation at the site involves espionage in the form of some kind of technology surreptitiously installed on one of the antennas as the observatory and aimed at those sensitive installations which sit in an adjacent valley. This, they say, would explain why the local sheriff saw FBI agents examining high altitude areas of the facility.
Mysterious Evacuation Of Solar Observatory Overlooking White Sands Smells Like Espionage
Otero County Sheriff Benny House said the FBI asked him to support the initial evacuations at the observatory itself, but gave him no other information and that he and his deputies left after there was no evidence of an ongoing or imminent threat.
“There was a Black Hawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything,” Sheriff House explained to the Alamogordo Daily News on Sept. 7, 2018. “We went up there and everything was good. There was no threat. Nobody would identify any specific threat. We hung out for a little while then we left. No reason for us to be there. Nobody would tell us what we’re supposed to be watching out for.”
But given AURA’s statements and what else we know about the situation, there is a distinct possibility that “security issue” is actually related to espionage or a similar operational security concern. The National Solar Observatory’s site enjoys a wide and largely unobstructed view of both the U.S. Air Force’s Holloman Air Force Base and the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range, both of which regularly host a very wide array of U.S. military research and development programs.
Couldn’t you move a Light Infantry Company on line with Helicopter support and round up any evidence or flush suspects toward FBI Agents on the ground?
Sounds like a neat training exercise.
Interesting idea. Would using the Army in this kind of role violate Posse Comitatus? Would it matter that this might be a counterintelligence incident? At a superficial glance it looks like using the Army for almost any kind of search/seizure could be a violation:
Hmmm I might have been presumptuous in thinking that wouldn’t apply to spies working for a foreign agency.
The benefit would be a group that has a bit more youth and perhaps more recent and relevant experience?
