September 10th, 2018

Via: Alamogordo Daily News:
The Sunspot Observatory is temporarily closed due to a security issue at the facility that’s located 17 miles south of Cloudcroft in the Sacramento Mountains Friday, an Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) spokeswoman Shari Lifson said.
“The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy who manages the facility is addressing a security issue at this time,” Lifson said. “We have decided to vacate the facility at this time as precautionary measure. It was our decision to evacuate the facility.”
She said she cannot comment on the specifics of the security issue.
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Otero County Sheriff Benny House said the Otero County Sheriff’s Office was asked to standby.
“The FBI is refusing to tell us what’s going on,” House said. “We’ve got people up there (at Sunspot) that requested us to standby while they evacuate it. Nobody would really elaborate on any of the circuмstances as to why. The FBI were up there. What their purpose was nobody will say.”
He said he has a lot of unanswered question about what occurred at Sunspot.
“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. “There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything.”
The Daily News contacted the Albuquerque FBI spokesman seeking comment for this story, but telephone calls and messages were never returned.
House said he pulled his deputies from the facility after there was no identifiable threat.

“They wanted us up there to help evacuate but nobody would tell us anything,” he said. “We went up there and everything was good. There was no threat. Nobody would identify any specific threat. We hung out for a little while then we left. No reason for us to be there. Nobody would tell us what we’re supposed to be watching out for.”

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Mistake:
The name of the observatory is the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, and "Sunspot" is the name of the town nearby. If you send mail to the observatory it has a Sunspot address, and the Post Office is right down the road from the observatory.
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Apparently a lot of locals refer to it as "Sunspot Observatory" even though that's a misnomer. 
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There is very little online about this evacuation and no statement from the FBI regarding their involvement. 
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Rumors abound, regarding UFOs, secret ops, drilling noises, mercury leaking (the observatory is said to have tons of mercury on site for specific purposes but mercury has since been deemed an environmental hazzard). But officials are not providing any answers. No one seems to know where the evacuees went and they're not available for comment, for 3 days now. The observatory was closed as well as the Post Office and some nearby residences evacuated, but no reason is being announced. 
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Have you ever heard of an evacuation of a geographical area without any official explanation?
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No source I could find mentioned the fact that tomorrow is the 17th anniversary of 9-11-2001.

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The employee said people in the area have seen unknown authorities hovering in helicopters and driving up in vehicles.
“Nobody would know who they are – you stop them and they won’t tell you anyway,” he said.
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If the observed people hovering in helicopters and driving up in vehicles are unknown and won't identify themselves, how does anyone really know they are "authorities?" 

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The employee said people in the area have seen unknown authorities hovering in helicopters and driving up in vehicles.
“Nobody would know who they are – you stop them and they won’t tell you anyway,” he said.
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If the observed people hovering in helicopters and driving up in vehicles are unknown and won't identify themselves, how does anyone really know they are "authorities?"

Well I'd certainly hope the real authorities would have enough cop on to know whether or not these "unknown authorities" should be there or not, and deal with them if they shouldn't be. 

Flat-earthers really hate observatories AND sunspots ...

 ... sure, it was a flat earther.

Would that be a round planet X or a flat planet X?

Well I'd certainly hope the real authorities would have enough cop on to know whether or not these "unknown authorities" should be there or not, and deal with them if they shouldn't be.

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And how would the "cop on" know to do anything about it if they can't see the "unknown authorities?"

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FBI spokesman Frank Fisher would not confirm or deny the agency’s involvement but referred all questions to AURA.
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“The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy is addressing a security issue … and has decided to temporarily vacate the facility as a precautionary measure,” AURA spokeswoman Shari Lifson said in a statement. “We have no further comment at this time.”
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Lifson said AURA is working with the proper authorities, but would not name them.
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According to the facility’s website, the observatory and surrounding area are closed until further notice “due to unforeseen circuмstances.”
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Notice, AURA admits to having closed the observatory. However, the Post Office down the street was evacuated by an "unknown authority" that nobody, not even the local Sheriff can identify. It is a Federal crime to interfere with the Postal Service, but here an unknown entity has interfered with the operation of an entire office of the Postal Service and nobody has anything to say about it.
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What is wrong with this picture?