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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 7:25 am    Post subject: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

https://www.cnet.com/news/mysterious-observatory-evacuation-stirs-alien-conspiracy-theories/

FBI agents showed up at the Sunspot solar observatory in tiny Sunspot, New Mexico, on Friday and shut down the facility, evacuating the local area, including the town post office.

"There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers, but nobody would tell us anything," Otero County Sheriff Benny House told the Alamogordo Daily News. "I don't know why the FBI would get involved so quick and not tell us anything."


I'm pretty sure we have a samba member somewhere in that area.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 7:37 am    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

Interesting and yet weird. They will cover it up and we will never know.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 7:41 am    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

Easy explanation in two words: Space Force
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:18 am    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

aeromech wrote:
I'm pretty sure we have a samba member somewhere in that area.


Ask him about it after he is returned to earth following his brain scan and anal probe.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:08 am    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

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Others ... think the security issue may involve a foreign power attempting to use the observatory's antennas to spy on nearby White Sands Missile Range.

Seems reasonable to be this or something similar
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:52 am    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

That's weird but who know what the government does and why.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:09 am    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

Official explanation, swamp gas
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

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Official explanation, swamp gas

Hmmmmm-----I thought the swamp was drained. Confused
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

iowegian wrote:
Zundfolge1432 wrote:
Official explanation, swamp gas

Hmmmmm-----I thought the swamp was drained. Confused


Nope, the drain was swamped!
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

Yeah, the dark star is due to make its way around from behind the sun and is headed our way. Guess the pahanna doesn’t think the planet (civilization) is worth saving.
I expect this post to be deleted, I tried to warn uoy.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

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Yeah, the dark star is due to make its way around from behind the sun and is headed our way. Guess the pahanna doesn’t think the planet (civilization) is worth saving.
I expect this post to be deleted, I tried to warn uoy.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

Well whatever it is we’ve got our best people on it, this I can tell you, believe me 😁
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 3:43 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

An X-files video game was found in trash by a curiosity seeker. lets send post cards there and see if they get returned?? Future collectible
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:07 am    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

I lived in nearby High Rolls and Cloudcroft for a short while in the ‘70’s. My brother did weather observation for missile launches at Holloman AFB. If you look on Google Earth, It looks like there could be a straight line of sight from the mountain where the observatory is down to the Air Force Base and probably the missile range in the desert below.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

Zundfolge1432 wrote:
Well whatever it is we’ve got our best people on it, this I can tell you, believe me 😁


Awesome
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 7:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

Security issue supposedly.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article218527420.html
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 9:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

What about the other observatories that were closed around the same time? Our government is only sparing us from the horrible foreknowledge of what's coming. Prepare for worldwide anal probing.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

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Prepare for worldwide anal probing.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theory Reply with quote

I'm not saying it was aliens...but it was aliens.
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