Saturday, 15 September 2018

Sunspot Solar Observatory Shutdown Mystery

quote [ We're learning the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM, will stay shut down indefinitely. The facility was evacuated more than a week ago because of a security concern, but investigators are not saying what that concern is. The FBI told KOAT the security concern is not about aliens or UFO's, but the entrance was blocked off by yellow crime tape. "We were told we had a credible threat through the FBI and to leave," said evacuee Sean Williams. He and his family were one of five households told to leave the area. He said they weren't given a reason why. ]

First the DOE opens a gateway to the Upside Down, and now this!

The Observatory is adamant that there was no mercury spill:
The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot has been closed since last Thursday, along with the nearby post office and roughly a dozen residents, but officials remain tight-lipped as to what’s going on.

The secrecy persists even as local media report the FBI has showed up to the site, and Blackhawk helicopters have been seen circling overhead.

There's been little insight as to what the 'security issue' may be, but now, we know two things it definitely is not – aliens or toxic mercury.

‘There’s no mercury incident,’ Sunspot Solar Observatory Director R.T. James McAteer told the Alamogordo Daily News this week.

‘That’s a completely different set of protocols that would not have involved them locking all the doors.

‘We have a very regular maintenance routine. There is no cause for concern there.’

The Observatory has issued a completely unominous statement on its website:
"With the excitement this closure has generated, we hope you will come and visit us when we do reopen, and see for yourself the services we provide for science and public outreach in heliophysics."
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3 Interesting]
[by Ankylosaur]
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SnappyNipples said @ 5:38pm GMT on 15th September
Its a solar observatory. Unless aliens are coming from the sun I fail to see why this is a thing.

SnappyNipples said @ 5:41pm GMT on 15th September
Its a solar observatory. Unless aliens are coming from the sun I fail to see why this is a thing. But knowing Trump he's probably going to preempt an attack on the sun with our space force.


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SnappyNipples said @ 5:38pm GMT on 15th September
Its a solar observatory. Unless aliens are coming from the sun I fail to see why this is a thing. But knowing Trump he's probably going to preempt an attack on the sun with our space force.



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