This Is How It Starts: FBI Suspiciously Locks Down, Evacuates Solar Observatory in New Mexico
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This is how it happens when extraterrestrials make contact with Earth.
It starts with a newspaper report about suspicious activity at a space research facility —government agents and military vehicles. The local sheriff gets angry and confused. Then the TV news reports feature interviews with locals saying things like, “Nothing really happens here very much. And since nobody knows, it could be almost anything.”
All that has happened over the last week at the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, 130 miles southwest of Roswell—and the situation is still a mystery.
It seems to have started last Friday when the observatory was temporarily closed because of an undisclosed security issue. Shari Lifson, a spokesperson for the group that manages the facility—Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)—told the Alamogordo Daily News : “We have decided to vacate the facility at this time as a precautionary measure. It was our decision to evacuate the facility.”
Otero County Sheriff Benny House told the Daily News that FBI agents told his officers to “standby,” and would not explain the security threat to him or why the federal law enforcement agency was involved. “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 to the Daily News. “There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers, but nobody would tell us anything.”
House seemed especially confused since the staff at the observatory aren’t federal employees, as far as he knows. “These guys are regular workers that work for this company. I don’t know why the FBI would get involved so quick and not tell us anything,” he told the Daily News.
Frank Fisher, a public affairs officer at FBI’s Albuquerque Division, told Gizmodo that it was referring all inquiries to AURA. Lifson of AURA told Gizmodo today that the facility is still closed because the research group is still “addressing a security issue” and “is working with the proper authorities on this issue,” but has no further comment about the nature of the security issue.
A dispatcher at the Otero County Sheriff’s office told Gizmodo that the matter is still a complete mystery to their office. “We don’t know what is going on. We haven’t had any updates. We haven’t gotten any information at all,” he said. “There’s not much we can do about it. We’ve decided to respect their wishes. We’re not going to make any inquiries and they’re not telling us.”
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Calling Fox Mulder...
The oddest part is that they closed the facility 5 days ago and it still hasn't reopened. If it were something like an anthrax threat or a bomb threat or WWII ordnance it would have been dealt with promptly.
... and no news...
Where's Fox Mulder when you need him??
You used Fox and news in the same comment,,,
/s
... .... but... but... but... ... ...
Obviously the FBI just made contact with an alien species. They're fat orange flaxen haired narcissist bi-peds who have come to reclaim their disobedient child who had come to this planet a few decades ago and assumed the persona "Donald Trump". They explained that what humans mistook for sexual assault was just a standard alien greeting where they regularly grab each others genitals.
Thank Christ!
I was getting nervous there for a second because I thought you were going to tell us that they were invading us. I was about to go look for my gun.....
Thank you s-o-o-o-o much for explaining.
I feel much better now...
Maybe they found the Galaxy Being
Wonderful Z-series!
Nothing suspicious about it.
If it was a security breach- which could be electronic or by an individual- then the facility will stay in lock down until the breach has been clear, and the security issue fixed. It would take much, much, longer for them to isolate and secure an electronic security breach (hacking). Chances are this is a very high tech system with multiple access points that all must be checked.
If is was what everyone so far that posted seems to think and evidence was found of extraterrestial life; then it would take even longer. As the entire system would need to be scrubbed; and all employees interviewed (and forced to sign some form that would prevent them from talking to anyone). Given that none of the employees of the observatory have been detained I highly doubt this.
Given the panic over Russia/China/other outside countries hacking US systems I am will to go with the security breach. If it is ET, then "Nanu Nanu"; "ET phone home" just hope their home isn't here- the last thing the planet needs is real aliens, people of this planet have enough problems getting along with each other. If they aren't friendly- then Hollywood has already come up with several ways of dealing with them.
Of course what you are saying is right, but that's no fun.
I thought I wouldn't have a good laugh today until I read that.
If it were an electronic breach the local sheriff wouldn't have been notified much less told to be on standby.
Maybe in case of fire?
Then it really is the Galaxy Being.
I think aliens would go to the bright lights of the big cities, not Sun Spot, New Mexico.
Mothman is an alien and he's attracted to the lights of big cities.
The Observatory was closed due to an employee's use of the wireless network to collect and share porn.
The Observatory reopened Monday...09/17
is this how it ends?
or is it all an elaborate cover up ?
totally believable
Trump wanted to make sure there weren't any of his mushroom dick pics released.