Solar Observatory Evacuated, FBI Involved, Sunspot, NM

Okay...but what I'm not getting is why they needed to evacuate the place because of something they're observing.

If one of their birds get spotted, then what's the fallout?....National Security is compromised?

Yet, no NSA up there.

Hmmm...

"Evans died on October 31, 1999 at home in Santa Fe, New Mexico... as the protagonist in a murder–suicide with his 89-year-old wife Betty."

Sounds like a good plan.

Done. Program is running now, computing all transits for all classified satellites for which we have recent amateur data from September 1st out for 30 days. God I love PyEphem, such a handy toolset. It took less than 50 lines of code to make the program, at least for its first version.

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... The Wicked One ... STAY SAFE!!!! ...
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... thanks for the report ... BUT SERIOUSLY! WATCH YOUR BACK! ...
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... and hope you have friends/family who can help you! ...
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FBI is not there investigating anything. FBI is there for the removal of people. If they refuse they go to jail. FBI is only there to ensure that no one unauthorized enters and sees anything.

The more important question is not why the FBI is there, but who ordered them to be there. Whatever agency brought them in will tell you a lot.

They are not trusting local LEOs, which tells you a lot also.

Does anyone know if that is a grass air strip just to the northwest?

since hasmat was ruled out by the absence of related staff & stuff, as well as a terrorist threat regarding mercury steal...
I think is not related to what have already happened, like someone saw or would broadcast something along a KNOWN period of time because in this case they would not need to SHUT IT DOWN for "undetermined" time.
Looks like something they know will still happen but not with reasonable certainty of "when" so they closed it for the time that will be enough.
so, it would still be going to happen.
"what" would relate to something only they and armies (from USA, Russia, China, India, France, UK maybe) have the tech to see with similar aparatus from theirs or some other kind of tech. And would not relate to the sun or space else LASCO or STEREO, used by everyone would have to be shutdown too. Must be something between atmosphere and low orb altitude the mirror could reveal.
Wonder if a cloaked ship could be uncovered by the mirror

they're fucking with the Academic Freedom of
all these Astronomers now.

Hmmm...

"It was October 31, 1999, Halloween morning. I was in my office when a fellow pilot, a former flying companion, phoned with the news: It was EgyptAir Flight 990, a giant twin-engine Boeing 767 on the way from New York to Cairo, with 217 people aboard...

...It had taken off from Kennedy Airport in the middle of the night, climbed to 33,000 feet, and flown normally for half an hour before mysteriously plummeting into the Atlantic Ocean sixty miles south of Nantucket...

...The problem was not so much the scale of the carnage—a terrible consequence of the 767's size—but, rather, the still-sketchy profile of the upset that preceded it, this bewildering fall out of the sky on a calm night, without explanation, during an utterly uncritical phase of the flight."

[link to www.theatlantic.com (secure)]

"In this OBE, I hear men's voices and they are talking about blood sacrifices. The feeling is that they are part of a secret and powerful global Occult group - a secret society. From what I gather, this isn't the only such group and it seems as if they want this blood sacrifice as a sort of victory over the other Occult group. This blood sacrifice also has to involve special dates, times, numbers, and other ingredients special to them. It is agreed that the blood sacrifice will be from a plane crash, and that this will happen on October 31, 1999. They further say that if they will amplify their powers by repeating the sacrifice, on October 31, 2000, with another plane."

[link to www.st*rf1ret#r.com]

Can you see White Sands Missile Range or Holloman AFB from there?

It may be more about what can be seen on the ground from that vantage point.

Can you see White Sands Missile Range or Holloman AFB from there?

It may be more about what can be seen on the ground from that vantage point.

1- Separate everyone for interrogation to find the proof.

2- Computer log would show it was copied, but not transmitted electronically out of the contained area.

3- The Post Office evacuated, it could be in the mail.

4- Yes, after the Event is sanitized. What happened to the leakers in the movie 2012?

Sorry if someone else posted this but it looks like it came out today and this websites links always work. For your perusal.
[link to fromthetrenchesworldreport.com]

What about this theory? A suspicious package with powder was mailed to the observatory. This would shut down both places.

MoS

Can you see White Sands Missile Range or Holloman AFB from there?

It may be more about what can be seen on the ground from that vantage point.

What about this theory? A suspicious package with powder was mailed to the observatory. This would shut down both places.

MoS

There are solar telescopes all over the world, but the odds that a particular low orbit satellite (anything higher is unlikely to reveal detail) will transit from the perspective of a fixed telescope at a permanent observatory are relatively low. The corridor for such transits are very narrow. I've only ever seen ISS transits because I drove my telescope into the corridor. This site has some of the most powerful solar telescopes on earth and it's within the jurisdiction of the US, so it makes sense that they could be concerned about what it sees if a classified satellite transits. Plus the Dunn Solar Telescope has advanced adaptive optics that could end up revealing more detail than what most other solar telescopes could detect.

Just for fun I checked when the secret space shuttle X-37B (it's still up there) would transit the sun or moon from Sunspot NM given its current amateur-determined orbital elements. Nothing came up, even when I tried to predict it over the next two months, and as far back as August.

I also checked for several other satellites of interest, such as the Russian satellites that have been behaving weird. Cosmos 2521 was one of the ones involved with those Russian sat maneuvers ( [link to www.space.com (secure)] ) and appears to be set to cross the moon on Monday September 24th from Sunspot NM. If they're trying to get equipment in place to observe it they might need that kind of time, but that seems silly to give it away; a simple orbital maneuver by the Russians this far out wouldn't take much to render that transit invalid. Plus it's a lunar transit, not a solar transit. The scopes that are there aren't really designed for that. And not to play the "if I ran the zoo fallacy," but I would think they could get much better direct imaging of it from the nearby Starfire Optical Range at Kirtland AFB even when it's not transiting anything anyway.

My logical assumption would be that hazmat operations would be set up, yet I drove right up to the town entrance where it was not very far from the caution tape.

Wow, what a ding a ling I am! I forgot until just now about what the reasoning was that the tour through the big telescope couldn't be done that day. She told us that the scientists had been working nights on a project and that the next week they would be going back to days. So, working nights, not more than a couple of months ago, what was that project?

"We have decided to vacate the facility at this time as precautionary measure. It was our decision to evacuate the facility."

It was their decision? Not the FBI? That sounds more like a threat mailed to the facility, perhaps credible sounding, perhaps from a disgruntled employee and they don't yet know who. Maybe there was no suspicious substance or anything, but maybe this threat had specific details that indicated inside knowledge of the facility.

The caution tape is only there to make you aware to be cautious, so go past the tape, take a good phone and photo whatever you see, "photo whatever" i dont care, just curious now, and you maybe the closest ever on a glp thread to GO LOOK omg.