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https://www.cnet.com/news/aliens-sadly-not-to-blame-for-closure-of-new-mexico-solar-observatory/The observatory on Sacramento Peak, which overlooks the nearby White Sands Missile Range, was cleared along with the local post office and a handful of nearby residences, following a visit from the FBI earlier this month. No explanation for the evacuation was given to the observatory's employees or to local law enforcement.
"The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) who manages the facility is addressing a security issue at this time," AURA spokesperson Shari Lifson said in an emailed statement last week.
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On Sunday, Lifson sent out a follow-up release that would appear to rule out any such out-of-this-world explanation.
"AURA has been cooperating with an on-going law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak," reads the statement. "During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents... AURA determined that moving the small number of on-site staff and residents off the mountain was the most prudent and effective action to ensure their safety."
The lack of information on the closure of the observatory was necessary for safety reasons, according to the statement.
"We recognize that the lack of communications while the facility was vacated was concerning and frustrating for some. However, our desire to provide additional information had to be balanced against the risk that, if spread at the time, the news would alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation. That was a risk we could not take."
The observatory is set to open up again on Monday. It now has a new security service to help manage the unusual number of visitors who've been checking out the peak and the observatory for themselves.
solara
(3,836 posts)what about these other closings that coincided with Sunspot Solar?
"Other solar/space cams were taken off line at the same time as the National Solar Observatory evacuation.
AXIS 2320 Network Dome Camera in Sydney, Aust. The SOAR Observatory in Chile; BRT Tenerife Telescope in Spain; Mauna Kea Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii; The Canada-France-Hawaii Observatory in Hawaii; and the JAT Observatory in Fairiless Hills, Penn."
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USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Those other observatorys were not closed, their cams were shut down.
Which dies not clear anything up.
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)The truth is that the aliens have now replaced all of the personnel and part of the FBI with duplicates. Their plan proceeds.
Oops. I wasn't supposed to tell anyone.
Zoonart
(11,878 posts)from Men In Black when you need them?I
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)responsible for bringing an alien lad that looked human to the earth about 70 years ago, give or take a year..
They dropped the alien in New York and it was found by a very rich New Yorker who wanted to raise the alien as his own. He told no one, and named him "Donald" after Donald Duck, the crazy duck.. Then the lad grew up and was somewhat smart but he never picked up the idea of "community" he always thought he was from
another world (he was) and therefore thought he should own this entire world..(he was wrong on that one)
...Strangely Donald Duck evolved into ???? can't complete this story...to weird to continue...
solara
(3,836 posts)Thank you.. laughter is a healer, that is for sure