These two kooks are still chugging along?
Any new evidence of anything they've ever brought up? No, of course not.
Uh...seriously?
https://www.salon.com/2018/09/14/the-director-of-the-sunspot-observatory-is-not-sure-why-the-feds-shut-it-down/The saga began to unfold on September 6, when authorities unexpectedly closed and evacuated Sunspot Solar Observatory. Sunspot Solar Observatory is managed by a consortium of universities that provide funding to operate the telescope and adjoining visitor’s center. AURA (The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy) is a big site, tens to hundreds of acres, McAteer explained, and the observatory is used to study the sun in very specific ways.
McAteer said while the reason behind the closure is still unknown, he does not believe it is as strange as some believe.
“AURA deciding to close it is not an unusual event to me and I’m not going to jump to any unnecessary speculation,†McAteer told Salon. “They [AURA] made the decision to close the site based on an internal decision, based on whatever they make their decisions on, and as they often make decisions to close remote sites this is not an uncommon thing to do.â€Cue your insertion of
multiple instances of where observatories AND their local post offices were shut down and cordon'd off by the feds:
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loginLMH largely broke that story and that is the ONLY reason Salon is in doing damage control with...wait for it...the long time gubmint "no UFOs shill Seth Shostak, he of SETI "infamy":
Shostak speculated the government's seizure of the facility could possibly have to do with observing satellites. In the event that aliens do make an appearance on Earth, it is unlikely the government would really try and keep it a secret.
“Twenty years ago we picked up a signal that might have been an alien transmission, and they didn’t try to shut anything down or keep anything secret,†he said.
Do tell, oh purveyor of red herrings...
LMH's core reportage remains solid:
https://www.earthfiles.com/2018/09/27/update-on-sunspot-solar-observatory-silent-fbi-odd-child-porn-charges-and-angry-sheriff-report-upcoming/Otero County Sheriff Benny House was asked by the FBI to help evacuate the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM (above right), on September 6, 2018, but the FBI refused to give the Sheriff any information about what the “threat†was and as of September 21, 2018, had still not talked with the sheriff about alleged child porn charges by an observatory janitor who had still not been arrested and charged even after federal Search and Seizure Warrants had been released to Channel 9 TV in El Paso, Texas, on September 19, 2018.
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login“I think it’s chicken sh-- the way the FBI handled it.†– Otero County Sheriff Benny House, Alamogordo, NM
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