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Post by ZETAR on Sept 13, 2018 18:30:08 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 13, 2018 23:24:39 GMT
SHALOM...Z Amen!
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 14, 2018 11:45:19 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers
Sending up prayers for those in the path of Florence.
Kansas City Star
FBI mum about sudden closing of solar observatory. Conspiracy theories fill the silence
By Lisa Gutierrez September 13, 2018 05:22 PM
Mystery continues to surround the sudden shutdown last week of the national Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico, which remained closed Thursday with little explanation offered.
The silence has given rise to guessing games and conspiracy theories bouncing around on social media about what happened at the facility in the Sacramento Mountains, especially given reports that the FBI was involved.
The observatory, near Alamagordo, was evacuated last Thursday, reported the Albuquerque Journal and other local media outlets.
“Sunspot apologizes for the continued closure of the facilities,” a statement on the observatory’s Facebook page said on Sunday. “The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is addressing a security issue at the National Solar Observatory facility at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico and has decided to temporarily vacate the facility as a precautionary measure.
“AURA, which manages Sacramento Peak with funding from NSF, is working with the proper authorities on this issue. We have no further comment at this time.”
The NSF is the National Science Foundation.
more after the jump:
www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article218345090.html
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 14, 2018 11:53:42 GMT
Alamogordo Daily News
Update: Authorities not saying a lot as Sunspot Observatory remains closed
Nicole Maxwell, Alamogordo Daily News Published 8:03 p.m. MT Sept. 13, 2018
SUNSPOT - Sunspot Observatory was closed and evacuated Sept. 6 due to an undisclosed security risk. Officials aren't saying why it was closed and that's led to media coverage and plenty of speculation.
Authorities remain tight-lipped.
“Nothing’s changed from last week,” Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, or AURA, spokeswoman Shari Lifson said by phone Thursday afternoon.
Lifson offered no further information.
The Sunpspot facility is a part of the National Solar Observatory and AURA maintains it.
“Last Thursday, we got a phone call in the morning from AURA who told us to say that they were temporarily evacuating the site and asked us to evacuate our people,” Sunspot Solar Observatory Director R.T. James McAteer said. “So, I called our people up and asked them to leave in a very sensible and calm manner and locked everything up. We’ve been out of there since Thursday morning.”
McAteer is a professor of astronomy at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, about an hour and a half to the west of the observatory. The observatory is located high in Sacramento Mountains. The closest city is Alamogordo, at the base of the Sacramentos — about 15 miles as the crow flies, but nearly an hour's drive time away.
The Sunspot Solar Observatory is run by a consortium of universities that provide funding to operate the telescope and adjoining visitor’s center, McAteer said.
“Those are the two building where we have our employees at in Sunspot: the telescope and the visitor’s center,” McAteer said.
Which means that they are responsible for the guided tours and scientific data, he said.
NMSU's four employees at Sunspot were evacuated Sept. 6, as were five or six employees of AURA. The U.S. Postal Service, which operates the Sunspot Post Office, evacuated its employees, though McAteer said he did not know how many people worked at the facility.
There were also about 12 to 15 residents who were evacuated, McAteer said.
“The whole site was evacuated,” McAteer said.
The Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope, that McAteer and his team operate, rotates on a mercury float bearing at the top of the tower.
The mercury was not the reason for the closure, McAteer said.
“There’s no mercury incident. That’s a completely different set of protocols that would not have involved them locking all the doors,” McAteer said. “We have a very regular maintenance routine. There is no cause for concern there.”
There's been no word whether, or if, evacuations will be lifted.
The observatory posted this message to its website and social media platforms:
"On Thursday Sept 6, AURA made the decision to temporarily close Sunspot. The Sunspot Solar Observatory continues to work closely with AURA in order to allow for us to reopen as soon as possible. With the excitement this closure has generated, we hope you will come and visit us when we do reopen, and see for yourself the services we provide for science and public outreach in heliophysics. If you have any questions about the science we perform at the telescope, or about the outreach we provide through our Visitors Center, please contact our Director, Dr McAteer at mcateer@nmsu.edu "
www.alamogordonews.com/story/community/2018/09/13/sunspot-observatory-remains-closed-unknown-security-risk-nmsu/1296835002/
Crystal
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Post by swamprat on Sept 14, 2018 14:54:20 GMT
World's largest cargo aircraft lands in Oakland, California By Editorial Board, Airliner Watch
Sep 11, 2018
Watch video: www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=202&v=Iovbnl8VGj4
After 6,100 miles and 13 hours flight, the monster transporter appeared over the bay area giving a spectacular scenery while approaching the Oakland International Airport in the late afternoon on September 9th.
Yesterday, on September 10, the An-225 Mriya took off from Oakland and arrived in Hawaii after a five and half hour flight. Today It will take off from Daniel K. Inouye International Airport for its final destination in Guam.
The aircraft carries supply materials to Guam as Typhoon Mangkhut caused damage on the Mariana Islands.
The Antonov An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-225 Мрія, lit. 'dream' or 'inspiration', NATO reporting name: "Cossack") is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft that was designed by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Ukrainian SSR within the Soviet Union during the 1980s. It is powered by six turbofan engines and is the heaviest aircraft ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (710 short tons; 630 long tons). It also has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service.
The Antonov An-225, initially developed for the task of transporting the Buran spaceplane, was an enlargement of the successful Antonov An-124. The first and only An-225 was completed in 1988. After successfully fulfilling its Soviet military missions, it was mothballed for eight years. It was then refurbished and re-introduced, and is in commercial operation with Antonov Airlines carrying oversized payloads. The airlifter holds the absolute world records for an airlifted single-item payload of 189,980 kilograms (418,830 pounds), and an airlifted total payload of 253,820 kg (559,580 lb). It has also transported a payload of 247,000 kg (545,000 lb) on a commercial flight.
Six Progress D-18T turbofan engines were installed on the wing roots. An increased-capacity landing gear system with 32 wheels was designed, some of which are steerable, enabling the aircraft to turn within a 60 m-wide (200 ft) runway. The An-225's pressurized cargo hold is 1,300 m3 (46,000 cu ft) in volume; 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) wide, 4.4 m (14 ft) high, and 43.35 m (142 ft 3 in) long — longer than the first flight of the Wright Flyer.
airlinerwatch.com/video-worlds-largest-cargo-aircraft-to-land-oakland-california/
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Post by HAL on Sept 14, 2018 15:51:22 GMT
Sys,
Take care. Looks as if it is going to be very wet for a long time. Hope you remembered to get food for yourself as well as for the cats.
Swamp, Looks like this one has passed you by.
INT21
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Post by ZETAR on Sept 15, 2018 4:34:19 GMT
SHALOM...Z
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 15, 2018 11:19:49 GMT
Good morning all,
I'm sending up prayers for all that are in the path of Florence. Angels at your elbows!
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Crystal
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Post by purr on Sept 15, 2018 17:49:37 GMT
Good morning all,
I'm sending up prayers for all that are in the path of Florence. Angels at your elbows!
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Crystal
Ditto here, good evening Crystal and S & N fans! I'm right now enjoying that wonderful X Unknown movie classic, thanks so much for adding.
purr
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Post by HAL on Sept 15, 2018 20:00:25 GMT
Zetar, With only 58 members on the books (whatever DID happen to the old Casebook members, all 15,000 of them. mass abduction ?) I see you had to stitch three gifs together to make up the numbers. Reminds me of Inauguration day. HAL
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 15, 2018 23:21:49 GMT
Good morning all,
I'm sending up prayers for all that are in the path of Florence. Angels at your elbows!
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Crystal
Ditto here, good evening Crystal and S & N fans! I'm right now enjoying that wonderful X Unknown movie classic, thanks so much for adding.
purr
Purr, you and the other members are a gift to UFOCasebook.
Such nice people here.
Stay safe everyone & have a good Saturday evening.
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 16, 2018 11:15:27 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers!
Toronto Sun
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Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 16, 2018 11:44:08 GMT
NM PowWow Videos
Published on Sep 15, 2018
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Crystal
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Post by ZETAR on Sept 17, 2018 1:22:11 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 17, 2018 11:37:58 GMT
Good morning lovely people!
Washington Post
Mysteriously shuttered New Mexico solar observatory set to reopen, although some questions remain
By Matt Zapotosky September 16 at 10:18 PM
The organization in charge of the New Mexico solar observatory that was mysteriously evacuated and shuttered for more than a week attributed the closure to a threat posed by a suspect in a criminal investigation and said the facility will reopen Monday.
In a statement Sunday, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy said employees will return to work after “recent developments in the investigation” convinced officials that there was no risk to the staff.
The association also for the first time provided some details about why the observatory had to be closed, saying in a statement that officials had been cooperating with an inquiry of criminal activity in the area and “became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents.”
The sudden evacuation of the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, N.M., on Sept. 6 had spawned online speculation, fueled by authorities’ reluctance to provide any information about why the facility was closed.
The local sheriff and those tasked with guarding the observatory after the closure said that even they had been kept in the dark. FBI agents — who were on the scene during the evacuation — declined to say anything. Internet sleuths wondered whether researchers had spotted something extraterrestrial, or whether the solar telescope at the site had possibly been hacked to spy on a nearby missile testing range.
Roswell, N.M. — where the 1947 crash of a flying object sparked so much interest that the city is now home to a UFO museum — is only about a 2½ -hour drive from the observatory.
The association’s statement did not offer details about the nature of the criminal investigation, the suspect or the developments that led officials to conclude that there was no longer a risk. The association said it was working with a security service, in part because it expected more visitors in light of the mysterious closure. The site is normally open to the public.
“We recognize that the lack of communications while the facility was vacated was concerning and frustrating for some,” the association said. “However, our desire to provide additional information had to be balanced against the risk that, if spread at the time, the news would alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation. That was a risk we could not take.”
An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment, and a spokeswoman for the association did not return messages seeking comment Sunday night. Otero County Sheriff Benny House said Sunday evening that he had not been told why the facility was closed, and was not aware of an investigation in the area or a person who might pose a threat.
“I know absolutely nothing about what they’re talking about. They have not talked to us,” House said. “If there’s a threat, I think I should know. I’m pretty disappointed.”
The National Solar Observatory sits at more than 9,000 feet in the Lincoln National Forest in the southern part of New Mexico, and it is part of a larger astronomy facility on the site. The association’s statement said the closure was based in part on “logistical challenges associated with protecting personnel at such a remote location.” The adjacent Apache Point Observatory, a collection of telescopes about half a mile away, continued to operate as normal, though, even as the Sunspot facility remained closed.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mysteriously-shuttered-new-mexico-solar-observatory-set-to-reopen-although-some-questions-remain/2018/09/16/b5968630-ba0d-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.204a8442cb4c
Crystal
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