Very Cool Story
Folks around the shop know that I am a big fan of conspiracy theories. I subscribe to the History Channel and have a short wave radio just to keep up with where the aliens are and if Elvis has died yet. I was the happiest person in Texas during Jade Helm. That was a very dandy bundle of crazy.
Customer K sent me one this morning. It starts off like this. Out in New Mexico there’s all sorts of things looking at the stars because they have stars in New Mexico. They also have Area 51, White Sands, and a couple of Air Force bases. They also have ….
The Sunspot Observatory is temporarily closed due to a security issue at the facility that’s located 17 miles south of Cloudcroft in the Sacramento Mountains Friday, an Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) spokeswoman Shari Lifson said.
The Sunspot Observatory is a place where they … uh, observe the sun. They shut that sucker down for “security reasons” and ain’t telling anybody anything. And the FBI and Blackhawk helicopters were involved. Isn’t that cool?
The local sheriff was called and asked to “stand by” but they wouldn’t tell him for what. Isn’t stand by kinda what local sheriffs do all the time? Why would he need a special request unless it’s something, you know, weird.
In fact, the sheriff said …
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.”
Now there’s a helluva start.
They also evacuated a local post office and shut it down. Nobody’s talking, but people keep saying they are responding to authorities but don’t know who the authorities are. I admit, if some guy shows up in a Blackhawk and tells me to get the hell outta Dodge, I’m pretty apt to go without asking for identification.
The postal service spokesman said …
U.S. Postal Service spokesman Rod Spurgeon called the situation “strange” after authorities walked into the nearby post office without warning and told the clerk to evacuate.
However, another star gazing facility a mile away wasn’t shut down and has no idea what’s going on.
The observatory’s website said it’s closed “due to unforeseen circumstances.”
Latest report?
[Sheriff] House said they didn’t get any more answers at the observatory, but staff members told deputies the FBI had been there.
“Nobody would give us any information on what was going on,” House said, before the phone call cut out and repeated attempts to reach him again were unsuccessful.
Thanks to K for lunchtime entertainment.
Militia nuts, that’s what they is.
That, or lizard people, transporting down like on that documentary “Star Track.” Or “Trec?”
1Not that it really matters, but Area 51 is in Nevada.
2Southern New Mexico is also home to Spaceport America, the future commercial launch site for Virgin Galactic; the federally-sponsored Very Large Array, a radio astronomy observatory mapping outer space; the Trinity Site where the first atomic bomb was tested in 1945; and Roswell, where a UFO crashed in 1947. And we can’t leave out the beautiful village of Hatch, NM, ground zero for Hatch green and red chile.
3I’m guessing that they found the giant ants from THEM, and needed a giant magnifying glass and the Sun to take care of THEM.
That, or Jeff Sessions heard that global warming is a furrin plot. As the Sun makes things warmer, an observatory that looks at the Sun seems suspicious to minds such as those infesting the White House these days.
4I thought “lizard people” and “militia nuts” were synonymous.
5That’s weird but it Is New Mexico -Land of Enchantment!
6Cue up the theme from The Twilight Zone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSRm80WzZk
7why is it always a Blackhawk?
8where are the Cobras, the Huey, the Bells, the Little Birds, the Chinooks, the Vipers, the Apaches. the Lakotas, the Nighthawks,……….
Here’s my theory –
Remember when Trump was looking directly into eclipse?
9https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2017/08/AP_17233688604864/lead_720_405.jpg?mod=1533691901 He was pointing at something, which to the untrained (and unprotected) eye may have appeared to be the sun itself. But perhaps, he made a fantastic discovery on the sun that day, which was referred to the observatory in NM. The FBI came in to pick up hard copies of their followup research. As a matter of national security and all, they didn’t want to Tweet the results to him in 789 separate consecutive Tweets.
There is only one reason for the FBI and others to get involved and be secret….LOTS of money is to be had by someone important.
10I’m thinking maybe something very toxic went through that post office, going to or from the observatory.
No decontamination showers, though. At least not for the postal workers.
11I agree with Lunargent. Someone who decided Science is a big ol’ plot decided to attack a facility with very low security. Might want to keep an eye on other places like the CDC, Lawrence Livermore, hell, the Hayden Planetarium. And Jabba the Rush just accused NOAA of spreading rumors about this so-called hurricane.
The helicopters are a new touch. Unless they’re looking for someone who escaped. Have you ever seen “The Beast of Yucca Flats”?
12I was thinking another “seizure” by the inbred bundy clan.
13Were there dead sheep? Cuz that’s how Andromeda Strain started.
14The FBI has released pictures of a “person of interest.” https://www.google.com/search?q=Picture+of+James+O%27Keefe&rlz=1C1PQHA_enUS544US599&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=8GgnzGQ_4UJT2M%253A%252CeKiLCwq-16svtM%252C_&usg=AFrqEzf26qhYByAtIoZHnqEbuZ5lqjhGYA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwim-Z6b-rjdAhXG6J8KHRGBDeoQ9QEwBHoECAUQDA#imgrc=8GgnzGQ_4UJT2M:
15The time tunnel sprang a leak.
Or, to put it another way, the time tunnel WILL spring a leak.
16It is not necessary to attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
And this crew has incompetence running out their ears.
17That’s weird. Really weird. I once worked at the nearby air base and visited the observatory on a number of occasions. Since it’s a solar observatory they wouldn’t handle dangerous chemicals, and they couldn’t possibly train their telescopes toward the ground in order to spy on the nearby White Sands Missile Range.
The area is very isolated, with hardly anyone living around it, so one might suspect drug activity of some kind. But if that were the case, the DEA would be involved, not the FBI, and I suspect the sheriff can tell the difference between them.
I look forward to when we find out the answers.
18One thing we do know, this cannot possibly be our misreprsentative now running for governor. He is not at all a bright object.
19BillR, my newest hero!
“I thought “lizard people” and “militia nuts” were synonymous.”
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!
20The truth is out there.
21It’s all perfectly understandable and I’m surprised nobody here has realized it.
So far, all the talk of global warming has focused on what we can do here on Earth. President Trump isn’t satisfied with addressing the what *people* do — he’s going for the root-cause: the sun itself. Now we don’t know exactly what he’s going to do to the sun (probably classified anyway), but this is what LEADERSHIP is all about.
22ROFLMAO~
I lived on top of the mountain at Cloudcroft, New Mexico for 15 years. Above Holloman AFB, White Sands Missile Range and near Sunspot.
The government and military do great and wonderful things at these places – Sunspot is terrific and the schoolkids go on field trips there often – especially if there is a celestial event happening~
New Mexico is full of scientists and owned by the DoD and all kinds of ‘secret’ things go on, but it is beautiful country and if conspiracy people who have never been there want to conspire………….just laugh~we were up on ‘the mountain’ because my husband is an environmental scientist.
Scientists are not big on silliness.
23“Scientists are not big on silliness”? I beg to differ: http://jir.com
24The much younger folks have more of a take on this stuff. My son is now not all that young but he sniffed that “report” and considers it totally amateurish and not worth his while. It somehow just doesn’t meet the standards necessary for a really, truly, genuinely mind blowing happening.
25Anthrax in the mail.
26The solar observatory will open on Monday, Sept 17. Still no official explanation.
http://earthsky.org/human-world/why-sunspot-solar-observatory-nm-closed-fbi
27Reason for closure is explained, at long last! Kiddie-porn?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-mexico-observatory/new-mexico-observatory-closure-stemmed-from-fbi-child-porn-probe-documents-idUSKCN1M001P
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