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The Alamogordo Daily News reports:
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.
[...] Otero County Sheriff Benny House said the Otero County Sheriff's Office was asked to standby. "The FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] 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 circumstances as to why. The FBI were up there. What their purpose was nobody will say."
He said he has a lot of unanswered questions 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."
Why would the FBI order a sunspot research facility closed, but be unable (or unwilling) to give a reason?
Also at Popular Mechanics, Vice, and Gizmodo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:23PM (16 children)
I heard about this from the Q discussions after the exodus to voat but couldn't really verify it. Is "Alamogordo Daily News" a reliable source?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:33PM (1 child)
Don't be a moron, please. It's reported at other news outlets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:45PM
Reported or repeated? I did see it repeated...
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:01PM (10 children)
It is owned by USA Today so it is FakeNews like the rest of the media. But the secret to FakeNews isn't in reporting entirely fabricated events, it is in selecting which ones are suitable for advancing The Narrative, applying the proper spin to them to maximize their utility and memory holing the ones that aren't. But a local paper pretty has to cover an event so unusual that all of the locals would know it happened and realize their paper is useless if they didn't post a story about it.
So it is probably safe to assume that the account in that paper is at least mostly correct, although there is almost certainly at least one or more factual inaccuracies due to malice of incompetence and if the government wanted some fact omitted it would be... unless it could somehow be used to hurt Trump or another Republican in the upcoming midterms. So the observatory was almost certainly cleared out by a government agency for reasons unstated. Anything more may or may not be accurate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:13PM (9 children)
How did you convince yourself this "Alamogordo Daily News" site existed and provided a reliable news service before this event?
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:37PM (8 children)
Google has 31,300 hits on the site. If it is a hoax somebody expended some effort.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:52PM (7 children)
I dont get how "number of google hits" maps to the accuracy of the original source.
Lets say there is one local news site who was ok until this planted story. How would your method detect it?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:54PM (6 children)
If it fits him, then it's true. It's just as simple as that, don't try to find meaning where is none.
E.g. in this case, suddenly, Google is no longer a bastion of liberalism, full of SJW, it's a reliable source and the number of hits is a good metric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @12:02AM
Yea I saw the same from 'deathmonkey" a few days ago. It wouldnt surprise me if those accounts were run by the same person.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday September 14 2018, @12:14AM (4 children)
Don't read more into what I say than what I say. I am pretty good at spotting fake / parody sites, this one doesn't look like one of them. But I admit I could be wrong, not interested enough to do a deep forensic dive on a weird news story. What I am saying is that a site with 30K pages indexed in Google over a fair range of dates probably ain't some 4chan larper having a joke at the Internet's expense. And had the kiddies hacked a real newspaper's site and inserted the story I'd expect that in the days this story has been working its way around the Internet that USA Today would have pulled it by now. USA Today is a media company after all, one expects they have minimal competence. Evil, but competent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @01:14AM (2 children)
Fair enough to the first half, I don't get the credulity regarding the usatoday for the second half.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday September 14 2018, @01:59AM (1 child)
The story has been passed around for several days and is currently linked by both DrudgeReport and Zerohedge, USA Today would know by now they had a problem and fixed a hack. At least one would hope, but this is Clown World. One thing is probable, the uncertain ending. Got about as much chance of ever getting the real story here as the Vegas shooter's motive.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @04:49AM
Not real news until I see it featured on The Onion!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @12:40AM
"Just forget what I said in the past, here and now is this the shiny mirror I want you to look at".
I'm afraid it doesn't work this way.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:58PM (2 children)
haha, any non-crazy users starting to see a pattern? Q and voat lovers? Jmorris hops right on board. Quality stuff.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:03PM
Yep, there is a definite pattern here.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday September 14 2018, @02:06AM
QAnon is "real" in only one limited sense. Somebody discovered a way to weaponize and focus the autism of [49]chan into a potent research machine. Seriously doubt Q is actually plugged into the DC power structure, the IC or the Trump inner circle but seems to know a lot, enough to make good educated guesses that are close enough that with the fortune teller fuzzing he uses that he hasn't blown the game entirely yet. Meanwhile he tells the 4chan peeps they are important, their unique skills needed and gives them a mighty purpose; they seem to be either onboard with that or at least enjoying the game enough to keep digging for him.