Could be solar activity indicating a massive flare that will fry the planet or send us back to the Stone Age.

https://www.cnet.com/news/mysterious-observatory-evacuation-stirs-alien-conspiracy-theories/

https://www.abqjournal.com/1219922/nm-solar-observatory-closed-authorities-mum.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36800713)

Something is happening with the sun. Not only did NASA recently send that probe to the sun, but also a few days ago the FBI shut down the Sunspot Observatory in New Mexico and no one knows why.

“The FBI is refusing to tell us what’s going on. 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.”

The sheriff also claimed there was a Blackhawk helicopter at the site and work crews on towers and around antennas.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36800728)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6156051/Solar-storm-damage-power-supplies-set-slam-Earths-atmosphere-TODAY.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36800852)

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36800863)

Other observatories are now going black:

http://www5.uhh.hawaii.edu/~webcam/mauna_kea/

http://www.soartelescope.org/about-soar/webcams-1/

http://www.telescope.org/webcam-tn-nightskycam-i.php

http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/en/gallery/cloudcams/index.php?opts=still

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36800903)

Data missing on all SECCHI satellites plus huge object showed up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36800914)

House said he pulled his deputies from the facility after there was no identifiable threat. “They wanted us up there to help evacuate but nobody would tell us anything,” he said. “We went up there and everything was good. There was no threat.

Nobody would identify any specific threat. We hung out for a little while then we left. No reason for us to be there. Nobody would tell us what we’re supposed to be watching out for.” House said he doesn’t understand why Sunspot didn’t call or notify them of the situation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36801082)

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1017137/national-solar-observatory-sunspot-fbi-solar-flare-new-mexico-NM

This has led to conspiracy theorists believing a ‘SUPER FLARE’ is on its way which could wipe out humanity and the FBI is not revealing this as they do not want the public to panic.

One person wrote on public talk board 4Chan: “Forums are talking about it being a ‘super-flare’ strong enough to turn the surface of the planet into an uninhabitable wasteland.

“Either we'll have a press conference this week, or rich people are going to start ‘disappearing’ quietly.”

Another person added: “A big enough solar flare from our sun could wipe us out. Probably just as likely as an asteroid.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36801498)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

Only difference is back then, humanity could handle the 1700's because it's what they knew. Now, we're a lot softer. 90% of the population would be dead within a year due to starvation, disease, civil unrest and chaos

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36801731)

(https://reddit.com/r/SpecialAccess/comments/9f91sm/_/e5uy1fd/?context=1) .

Further down, someone says that someone claims that the Chinese were using the antenna array at the observatory to spy on missile tests at WSMR.

If the place was truly low on staff then this theory may not be so far fetched.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36803025)

I heard about the closure the other night when my friend, who works down at Apache Point Observatory (also in New Mexico), texted me about it. I was driving home, jamming out in my car, thinking of nothing in particular when I got the notification. I remember the way my mood just…dropped. One second I was happy and fine, the next it felt like I’d just gotten sucker punched in the gut. I remember pulling into a random parking lot, killing my engine, and just letting the panic overtake me. What I was feeling was true fear. The kind of fear that stops you dead and congeals your blood.

My friend’s text had sparked up a memory. One I tried very hard to forget. Since then, I’ve been debating if I should share what I saw or not. I’m worried for two reasons, one because it’s still an ongoing investigation and two because I was the only witness. But I’m a dash drunk so to hell with it. This is what I saw, take it or leave it.

Two summers ago, I landed a fellowship with the National Solar Observatory Headquarters located in Boulder, Colorado. The night it happened, I was staying later than usual, trying to play catch up on my research. It happened sometime after 3 AM. The one other person I was with, whom I’ll call M, was out walking or smoking or sleeping. I’d gotten bored with work and was fiddling around with my phone when I got the bright idea to check some previously captured images stored on my computer.

I plopped down at my desk (I’d been working in the break room) and clicked the mouse to wake up the machine. As I slid the pointer across my desktop I noticed a file I’d never seen before. It had a picture of a tiny black gas mask. The first thought that crossed my mind was that this was just a prank. The second thought was that maybe I put it there by accident. And the third was that it was a virus. Using the powers of deduction, I landed on it being a prank M was trying to pull and double clicked.

An image loop immediately popped up. One I’d never seen before. It must’ve been recorded earlier that day, I must’ve missed it. It looked kind of like this. I know. It looks spooky but it’s actually just something called a solar prominence. What I saw was different enough for me to freeze up. Different enough to scare me. First, the object was at least five times as big, which would be absolutely enormous if you consider the size of the sun. Second, there wasn’t just one solar prominence, but several, and they all were directed towards the center of the object. And finally, the image loop was the span of three seconds; in the first second the sun was normal, the next the object was there sucking away, and then it was gone.

My breath came back and I looked around for someone to show before realizing the only other person with me was M and he’d been gone for at least half an hour by now.

“Shit,” I said and stood up, determined to find M and show him. The first thing I noticed when I walked outside was that there was a matte black Ducati Monster parked in the lot, right next to the only other vehicle there, the one M and I had carpooled in. It was weird, sure, but not crazy. I own a bike myself (2016 Indian Scout) and figured I could both check out the bike and check out the car to see if M was sleeping inside. M wasn’t inside the car, but the bike was nice. It was only as I was walking away that I realized the small object next to one of the Monster’s wheels wasn’t a helmet like I first thought, but a small metal box.

That was little crazy, but Boulder houses a lot of crazy, so I just shrugged it off and turned around. I ran into M on my way back into the building. He was rounding the corner with a bag from Silvermine. He scared the ever-living shit out of me.

“Jesus,” I said. He was laughing. “You scared me.”

“I see that. Dude, did you see the guy in the suit?”

“What?”

“Just a random guy, walking around at 3 AM, in a fucking tailored suit.”

“No, whatever, listen. I just saw something weird and you need to see it now.”

M followed me back inside, back to my desk, and watched as I rewoke my computer and went to click the file. It wasn’t there.

“What,” I said scanning my desktop in desperation. “It was just here. Like not even five minutes ago. What the fuck?”

M crossed his arms. “What was it?”

“A loop. A big…thing was sucking plasma from the sun. I’ve never seen anything like it before.” M just blinked down at me. “I know it sounds insane,” I said, “but I saw it. I swear.”

“Uh-huh,” M said, “uh-huh sure.”

I narrowed my eyes. “Are you fucking with me? Tell me if you’re fucking with me!”

M held up his hands in a gesture of placation and honesty. “I swear that I am not fucking with you. When would I have time to fuck with you?”

“Yeah,” I said realizing that M was right. He was always working. “You’re right.”

“C’mon,” M said trying and failing to stifle a yawn, “it’s late, I want to get some sleep before the sun comes up. We both could use it.”

I was wide awake and worried, but M was right. Maybe I just needed sleep. It was probably nothing. We locked up and left and the first thing I noticed as we got out to the parking lot was that the Monster was gone. Neither of us heard the engine start. It was creepy, and I said so to M as we drove towards 28th.

“Maybe,” M said, “it has something to do with the guy in the suit.”

“What guy in the suit?”

“The one walking around at three in the goddamn morning in a goddamn pristine suit.” M paused for a beat. “Maybe that was his motorcycle and maybe he was the one fucking with you.” M burst into laughter and I shot him a glare. “Or,” he said wiping his eyes, “you know, it could be aliens too.”

So, I’m sure you can see my dilemma. I saw something. I did. But no one believes me or they excuse it away as some phenomenon we haven’t yet observed and studied. It’s not very kosher for a research fellow to insist that they saw a giant object sucking energy from the sun. The problem is this is what I do. I study the sun. And I’ve never seen anything like what I saw then since.

It worries me. And, honestly, I don’t know what it means. And I don’t want to say for certain what I think it could be when it very well could be something else. I guess that’s the scientist in me.

What I do know is I saw what I saw and it scared me and then it disappeared.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36803162)

However, James McAteer, a New Mexico State University professor who is also the director of the Sunspot Solar Observatory said the “telescope did not see aliens. All data will be made public in its unaltered form. Nothing is hidden or kept secret."

The FBI has not commented on the investigation.

Evacuees said they have not been told when they could possibly return home.

"My feeling is it’s going to be something stupid and small and minuscule when it’s all said and done... but we will see,” Williams said.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36806528)

Planetary K Index went red again last night. Something is happening.

https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/planetary-k-index.gif

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36808244)

You don't just shut down an org to nab a civilian employee using the orgs wifi inappropriately. This is classic diversionary distraction from the real reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4076351&forum_id=2#36844846)