National media hasn't been reporting on this, only local news outlets.
Closure of National Solar Observatory remains shrouded in myster..
> UNSPOT, New Mexico - The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot New Mexico has been closed since last Thursday.
The post office near Sunspot also remains closed. Its employees have been temporarily transferred to the post office in Cloudcroft, a USPS official told ABC-7.
>ABC-7 als reached out the FBI, but did hear back from the federal agency in time for deadline. The FBI did speak with local law enforcement about the length of the Observatory closure.
"They spoke with my sergeant initially and they said that they would be down for a few days so that could be anywhere from a few days to months, from my past experience," said Sheriff Benny House.
The FBI did not tell Sheriff House the reason for the closure.
Video in source
Some speculation on the closure is that either they have spotted something with their equipment, or that there was a radioactive leak due to Trinium however there doesn't appear to be any Hazmat teams on site.
May the conspiracies BEGIN !
It wasn't just the observatory, it was also the surrounding area.
Suspected terrorist attack?
I don't think it would be so contained if it was a terrorist attack. National media would be all over it and the FBI probably wouldn't be holding this a secret. Terrorists don't typically choose small towns to attack either.
I found another article with a bit more information.
https://eu.alamogordonews.com/story/news/local/2018/09/07/sunspot-observatory-south-cloudcroft-closed-due-security-issue/1227788002/
> “The FBI is refusing to tell us what’s going on,” House said. “We’ve got people up there (at Sunspot) that requested us to standby while they evacuate it. Nobody would really elaborate on any of the circumstances as to why. The FBI were up there. What their purpose was nobody will say.”
>He said he has a lot of unanswered question about what occurred at Sunspot.
“But for the FBI to get involved that quick and be so secretive about it, there was a lot of stuff going on up there,” House said. “There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything.”
The Daily News contacted the Albuquerque FBI spokesman seeking comment for this story, but telephone calls and messages were never returned.
House said he pulled his deputies from the facility after there was no identifiable threat.
“They wanted us up there to help evacuate but nobody would tell us anything,” he said. “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.”
I guess we can throw radioactive leak out the window then. FBI agents with antennas, blackhawk helicopters.
Sounds like some shit is going down that's for sure.
This is how Contact started.
Hoping for aliens but it's probably not lol.
gonna guess that it isn't aliens
Since we are entering Mulder and Scully tier stuff here is an obligatory Secureteam10 video. A favourite source for shitty news channels worldwide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8bM2iBm4nI&t=
Apparently the post office is closed for security reasons as well, so it might be something like anthrax or equally hazardous. Which would explain why they're keeping it so secretive to avoid panic.
Or it's aliens / massive solar flare
Well, the county sheriff said this:
“There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything.”
that sounds a bit unusual for a chemical attack of any sort.
Sounds like they are using the observatory more than getting things from it. They have spy satellites and the like, and counter spy satellites, so it might be safe to assume that isn't what they are looking for. There is alot of equipment at this place, it's not solely for observing the sun.
Seems like they have found something in space, or are worried another power has something up there. It's my best guess anyway.
I am actually wondering; could the antennae have be used by foreign spies and the FBI intercepted the broadcasts and they're there to investigate?
I mean, we can only speculate.
But then again, there is another observatory right next to this one
https://www.google.com/maps/place/National+Solar+Observatory/@32.786998,-105.8217536,15.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x86e0557ce0285ee3:0x2fd40415992072d!8m2!3d32.7899803!4d-105.8181881?hl=en
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Yes however observatories take pretty good care not to all point at the same spot unless it's needed for a project.
I've heard that the scientists who were previously quite active on twitter have been silent since the 7th, quite possibly under a non disclosure agreement one way or the other. I'll find substance to this claim if I can.
Well, yes, but wasn't this one pointed at the sun?
Please do.
So was linked to this forum where these guys are investigating it. One guy has even called the local news station for more info.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1217754/pg13
I recommend, it's a good read at least.
Well, if they removed all staff its safe to assume its not foreign embedded agents.
Its also safe to assume its not a localized attack (biological or otherwise) of some kind or they wouldn't just ask the local police to swing by.
If it was some kind of discovery or solar activity that warrants this kind of attention, how would that information not have gotten out publicly but gotten to the fbi (though it would not be a surprise if they had the computer systems under surveillance at these kinds of places)
If its somehow being used to observe a foreign powers satellites or such it would probably have been easier to use military telescopes?
It might be plausible that the computer systems were compromised and did something that got the FBI's attention. I'd imagine an observatory of all places would have pretty decent computing power that could be used for some bad stuff.
That or its the ayyys.
Well, if this rumour is to be believed then it truly was the case of somebody using the antennae for illegal activity.
http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/uk5b97016b.png
This honestly sounds more far fetched than aliens.
Yeah, highly doubt its solar flare related else we would've heard of it from other agencies (like NOAA's space weather or NASA). That and we're almost in the solar minimum of the 11 year solar cycle so flares and sunspots are not as common.
Ditto on a local hazard else they would've just called the regional HAZMAT and maybe the NRC or EPA. Also trinium? In an observatory? What.
I am not so sure about that. Remember this?
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-diplomats-found-looking-for-us-infrastructure-vulnerabilities-2017-6
I can very easily imagine foreign agents using civilian equipment, such as the antennae at the observatory, to communicate. It literally could be anybody - not necessarily terrorists.
Sure, perhaps they've found aliens, but for now I suspect it was an issue of the terrestrial sort.
I'm certainly not claiming Aliens, although I would argue it is more likely than a terrorist cell hacking a national observatory communications system. It's a bad place to get some privacy if you know what I mean, but it's possible. It's either a foreign power or sovereign citizens but there are much better and already very available ways of communicating that are safer and get lost in busy traffic.
A foreign power would make sense why the FBI are there but it doesn't explain the media blackout that is currently going on, it's another great chance to push a narrative or two, especially the Russians.
I'm more concerned about the staff at this point, a few are residential to the observatory and it seems people are having an issue tracking them down. They might be being detained or questioned.
Yeah, I am pretty sure of this no matter what it was that happened there.
Yeah, I'm sorry, no, I have to call out how bullshit this statement is.
How in the absolute fuck can you possibly reason that it is more likely that we have had first contact with Aliens? We know there are powers that have been trying to attack infrastructure vulnerabilities, we know they will use them for any number of devious or probing purposes (and that they have handed off said vulnerabilities to various groups, i.e. terrorists), why does that sound less likely to you than an axiom-shifting first-contact event??
Explain your reasoning.
I know right!
Depends on what your definition of terrorist is. If you mean terrorist as some foreign spy agency, then yes, absolutely very likely.
However if we are speaking about fucking Al-Qaeda or some Sovereign Citizens hacking into the system to communicate to each other is only something you see in shit like 24. Those guys are using their smartphones for that kinda contact or if they wanna be safe, pen and paper.
If you are calling foreign military powers spy agencies terrorists then I will have to throw my dictionary at your head.
bet they were selling shit to the russians
If it was aliens the NSA, CIA, FBI, Homeland, Trump etc. would all be falling over eachother to be the first there.
Also Trump would've tweeted it already.
Yeah, FBI wouldn't really be dealing with Aliens, they're criminal investigations only. You'd have a mess of alphabet soup agencies having a pissing match for superiority. The fact that it is the FBI who are all over it suggests it is something criminal related, probably espionage (as that's really the only kind of serious crime I could imagine happening at an observatory like that)
You guys are all crazy, they're clearly there for a tour of the facility because it's FBI field trip day. Look at that map right there a few posts up, visitor's center, there's no coincidence that that's there.
You guys are retarded, this is obviously an ARG for R6: Siege: Outbreak.
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