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FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com)
Alien conspiracy theories are swirling after an observatory in New Mexico has been unexpectedly closed due to an unnamed "security issue," prompting evacuations and a visit from the FBI. "The Sunspot Observatory is now currently closed to both staff and the public, with no word on why or when it will be open again," reports Popular Mechanics. From the report: "We have decided to vacate the facility at this time as precautionary measure," said spokesperson Shari Lifson to the Alomogordo Daily News. "The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy who manages the facility is addressing a security issue at this time." Lifson said that the facility was first evacuated on September 6 and has remained closed since then. According to Lifson, the observatory has no date for reopening yet.
As part of the investigation into the security issue, the observatory has contacted the FBI, which has been reported on the scene with multiple agents and a Blackhawk helicopter. According to local sheriff Benny House, the agency has been working with local law enforcement but refuses to share any details. The sheriff speculated that the evacuation could be due to some kind of threat made against the facility or its staff, but expressed confusion as to why local police would be left out of the loop. "If that's the case, why didn't they call us and let us deal with it?" he said. "I don't know why the FBI would get involved so quick and not tell us anything."
UPDATE (9/22/18): A warrant application filed in the case suggests the closure involved an FBI investigation into child pornography.
As part of the investigation into the security issue, the observatory has contacted the FBI, which has been reported on the scene with multiple agents and a Blackhawk helicopter. According to local sheriff Benny House, the agency has been working with local law enforcement but refuses to share any details. The sheriff speculated that the evacuation could be due to some kind of threat made against the facility or its staff, but expressed confusion as to why local police would be left out of the loop. "If that's the case, why didn't they call us and let us deal with it?" he said. "I don't know why the FBI would get involved so quick and not tell us anything."
UPDATE (9/22/18): A warrant application filed in the case suggests the closure involved an FBI investigation into child pornography.
I'm not going to say it was aliens. But it was aliens. Ancient alien investigators agree.
Look, guys, it's not whatever you were thinking. I hate to admit it but I'm the reason they shut the place down. Honestly, I had no idea that RIAA would go so crazy that I was torrenting/seeding a crappy Justin Bieber album and ignored the DMCA notices. I'm really sorry, I didn't think it was that big a deal, really. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Big rock coming our way, discovered by that facility. Silence needs to be kept, FBI will do the job.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Black Mesa
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Resonance cascade. They got carried away re-enacting events of Half-life.
Clearly this is the work of the patriarchy.
FBI finally realizes that Stormy Daniels came from Planet Pussy
And her relationship with that orange one ...
E.T. bone home.
Aliens who want to enslave all humans by burrowing into their brain Could explain the GOP...
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
You know what really owns the libs? Surfing. Storm surge waves are the best ever, and don't let The Man try to convince you otherwise!
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
This is actually not farfetched.
While the telescope was scoping out Andromeda, the observer at the scope licked the glass membrane that separates the photons that hit the mirror from also hitting the tongue.
Using the field equations put forth by Ben Carson, we find that contamination on one side of the eyepiece and the photoelectric effect on the other side can, within the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, enable quantum tunneling by the Boring Co. ball cap that the observer was wearing at the time.
Whether this actually happened, we must defer and refer to Schrödinger's cat.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.