FBI mysteriously closed Sunspot Observatory in NM for an undisclosed "security issue"

[Destino]

Nothing shuts down the rumor mill like an explanation written in a pleasant bureaucratic tones that assures you everything is ok while intentionally revealing nothing significant.  It’s the governments version of “oh I was just out with some friends and lost track of time.  Nothing to worry about.”  

[MarkB452]

[Renegade7]

5 hours ago, Elessar78 said:

That’s what the super secret division of the FBI would want you to believe. 

 

I think I'd rather them on the Mueller probe right now, that whole situation is starting to look supernatural at this point

 

 

"Am I right?"

[GhostofSparta]

On 9/14/2018 at 3:24 PM, Destino said:

Ever consider that we might be the terrifying aliens?  Like other intelligent life out there is vegetarian and the size of rabbits living happily until one of their ships stumbles onto our planet and... HOLY **** it's a place ruled by intelligent (arguably) flesh eating giants.  Monsters that gather into stadiums to drink poisonous beverages and roar their approval for various forms of ritual combat.  

 

Maybe the reason we've never made contact with alien life is because our planet is quarantined.  "Here there be monsters."    

 

 

On 9/14/2018 at 3:40 PM, Elessar78 said:

I'm writing a book with a similar premise. We go out in spaceships and end up being like interstellar conquistadors wiping out other planets' native life forms. 

You guys should google stuff like "Earth is Space Australia" or "Humans are Space Orcs." Some amazing stuff there.

[China]

Remain calm, all is well it's not aliens...

 

[twa]

Kiddie porn?

 

Child pornography reason behind Sunspot Observatory closure, according to court documents

https://www.ktsm.com/news/local/el-paso-news/child-pornography-reason-behind-sunspot-observatory-closure-according-to-court-documents/1460386237

 

I now they ain't been much solar activity lately but there are better options.

[Destino]

That’s horrible, makes you almost wish it was aliens.  It’s still strange that they’d evacuate everyone because one vile person was downloading stuff on the company WiFi.  Did they think he was violent?

[Elessar78]

People are so willing to accept kiddie porn as a valid reason for Blackhawk helicopters and such at a raid. 

[Zguy28]

8 hours ago, Elessar78 said:

People are so willing to accept kiddie porn as a valid reason for Blackhawk helicopters and such at a raid. 

Common tactic of state-sponsored threat actors is to dump kiddie porn onto a network when they know they've been detected. At that point everything get's locked down and FBI comes in while they exfil.

[Springfield]

21 minutes ago, Zguy28 said:

Common tactic of state-sponsored threat actors is to dump kiddie porn onto a network when they know they've been detected. At that point everything get's locked down and FBI comes in while they exfil.

 

Wait is this real or conspiracy theory bs?

[Elessar78]

30 minutes ago, Springfield said:

 

Wait is this real or conspiracy theory bs?

I had the same question. Seems legit enough to be true. But then again my mongoloid brain does gets confused easily. haha.

[justice98]

2 hours ago, Zguy28 said:

Common tactic of state-sponsored threat actors is to dump kiddie porn onto a network when they know they've been detected. At that point everything get's locked down and FBI comes in while they exfil.

 

In the words of legendary criminal mastermind Hans Gruber,  "You ask for miracles, I give you the F...B...I."

[justice98]

Not my thoughts, but this person laid out the issues nicely (shout out to BFC):

 

* The FBI raided the observatory on 9/6 but the arrest warrant for the janitor’s home wasn’t issued until 9/10

 

* The janitor wasn’t arrested then, on the 10th and apparent no charges have been filed

 

* The entire area - facility, homes, post office was evacuated

 

* CP is not a security threat, a crime but not a security threat to the facility by any standard so it makes no sense to refer to it like that in the AURA statement

 

* if the crime was CP, why didn’t they just say that, or tell the local authorities

 

* no way was a black hawk helicopter needed

 

* there were accounts of antennas being used by the FBI teams which makes no sense if they were searching for CP on the server

 

* the story about CP is coming out today 9/20 when the warrant was issued 9/10 the facility was opened 9/17. If that’s the story there wasn’t any reason to wait

 

* even if the crime was CP forceably evacuating and shutting down an entire area with armed FBI agents and a black hawk helicopter and for 11 days is not the way CP cases are normally handled - what was so different about this one.

[Mr. Sinister]

Yup. ???

[Kurd Cudins]

[justice98]

And anybody remember this quote from the director of the observatory?  

 

Quote

 

Observatory team members have shot down one of the more farfetched theories, however. The "telescope did not see aliens," Sunspot Solar Observatory director James McAteer, who's also an associate professor of astronomy, solar physics and space weather at New Mexico State University, told Albuquerque news station KOB4.

 

"All data will be made public in its unaltered form," McAteer added. "Nothing is hidden or kept secret."

 

https://www.space.com/41834-national-solar-observatory-facility-closed-security-issue.html

 

So they were gonna release CP? 

 

None of it makes sense.

[twa]

6 hours ago, justice98 said:

 

 

None of it makes sense.

 

The janitor is a alien into CP and his ejaculate spawned into