Evacuation, Black Hawks, and secretive FBI - The mystery at the AURA/NSO Solar Observatory

you dudes are scaring me

 

I can't even find the story where I read it before. So, no idea.

The /r/conspiracy reddit is going for the angle that the observatory uncovered evidence of a "massive imminent solar event that will scour the earth of life" and that the FBI is covering it up for prep time. Sounds like a straight ripoff of the plot for the movie, "2012". Search the conspiracy reddit if you want some interesting crazy paranoia. Apparently, we are legitimately near a solar minimum and sunspot activity is supposed to spike along with strong aurora borealis expected much further south than usual. A good conspiracy thory needs some convenient, but not necessarily relevant facts to give it a ground in reality.

I did read somewhere a suggestion that possibly the FBI could have commandeered the post office to use as a command post, as the location is apparently pretty remote. That would explain how the post office could fit the story without really fitting the story. The fact that they are being so tight lipped about it, (apparently the local sheriff was told to be on alert to assist the FBI, but not why) sort of reinforces the national security/espionage angle for me. That is one of those situations where everybody becomes very tight lipped.

But who knows? The most mundane suggested explanation I read was a mercury spill from the telescope, as the reflector is apparently a giant spinning pool of liquid elemental mercury, but it was pointed out that the EPA would be onsite, not the FBI, and they'd have no problem telling everybody why they were there. But riffing on that, cyber-terrorism threat was another angle I read somewhere.

 

1. I don't think solar science is to where we can predict exact flares at exact times, and Earth weathers most of those okay, give or take some communications trouble.

2. Our planet's magnetic field is due for a flip; I'm not sure this is the place that would first see that coming, but that would be disturbing news.

3. I still think most probable is Chinese national postdoctoral student is suspected of doing a little shady business w the equipment. Could close post office to try to stop any info he/she sent via snail mail (?)

4. Maybe disgruntled former employee sent anthrax or unidentified poison so close facility, close post office, bring in FBI (?)

 

It was me

 

Spoiler

Time to wipe the mind or perhaps ... go back in time ...

 

Guys I have it on good authority that all these feds rushed the scene because they heard basketballholic was giving a free seminar.

 

Word is he pulled out his spreadsheets, they were instantly claimed to be "legendary" by the lucky few in attendance.

 

FBI ? Definitely some illegal p*rn downloading going on. It’s always p*rn

 

at 0:32 you can see a blue police telephone box outside one of the buildings near the ledge- I'm certain all this is under control now.

 

Damn. No alien invasion.

http://www.aura-astronomy.org/news/news.asp?newsID=389&newsType=0

 

From the article above

So who was the suspect and what was he/she/it suspected of doing? Or did I just skip over it

 

Looks like this might have been close but w stated threats instead of anthrax.

 

I know, right. Not much more detail. I assume there still is no suspect, but what I find weird is they gave this same amount of detail the day of (or day after) the closure.

From the 9/7 article in OP:

"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....[later in article] I don’t know when the facility was vacated but it was within the last day.”

She said she cannot comment on the specifics of the security issue."
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What didn't they say back then, to not "alert the suspect," that they are saying now. Seems the statements on 9/7 would have alerted the suspect, too, as much as the new statement would have.

Maybe "a suspect" with still no additional info of nature of investigation is an attempt at further cover-up.

 

happened on the 5 year anniversary of the katy evacuation. something is wrong.

 

This is close to the idea I had - that the observatory had picked up a strange object/craft.
If you think about it, if you were an alien spaceship, the best place to hide in plain sight is against the backdrop of the sun.
Cue the Twilight Zone theme.

 

If I was an alien race though, about to be discovered, this is the exact plan I would put in place to get people away from the scope. That or i would throw up a pop up ad.

 

Dunno about you guys, but that explanation sounds pretty weak to me. Absolutely no details about who/what/how/where. Haven't these folks ever played Clue before? Gotta at least give us a suspect, murder weapon, and location. Sheesh.