National Solar Observatory, USPS office in Sunspot, NM evacuated for 'safety reasons'

a reply to: autopat51

Eh, that's fair enough lol to be honest that's about as far as I've been able to narrow it down as well anyway

a reply to: itswhatev
the telescope and area are the side show....what was seen?

a reply to: autopat51

That's what weve all been trying to figure out over the last 97 pages of this thread. Im not sold on it being something literally observed by a telescope or something in space, though I have no actual reason to rule that out either. The lack of actusl facts really prevents most theories from being proven or disproven completely. It is quite the conundrum


Edit: though the fact that you are speaking in definites as if you somehow "know" something is a bit irking tbh - no offence if that's just how you are but asking cryptic messages just for the sake of askimg them really doesnt do much for me personally

originally posted by: itswhatev
a reply to: autopat51

That's what weve all been trying to figure out over the last 97 pages of this thread. Im not sold on it being something literally observed by a telescope or something in space, though I have no actual reason to rule that out either. The lack of actusl facts really prevents most theories from being proven or disproven completely. It is quite the conundrum

Indeed we’ve been beating the bushes for a week and nothing of substance has jumped out and bit us yet which seems very odd.

Why couldn't it be something as simple as some observers noticed a satellite and found it was unreported or unknown? Wouldn't want it getting out to the Chinese that we found it, so shutdown the PO.

I dunno, just brainstorming.


Is there really ZERO info on this?

originally posted by: Tempter
Why couldn't it be something as simple as some observers noticed a satellite and found it was unreported or unknown? Wouldn't want it getting out to the Chinese that we found it, so shutdown the PO.

I dunno, just brainstorming.


Is there really ZERO info on this?

Maybe the X37 or one of the competitors the Chinese and Russians have talked about?

what ever was seen, and i believe something was seen, is being tightly guarded at this time.
everything else is fluff, whatever the orgs say is fluff.

originally posted by: Tempter
Why couldn't it be something as simple as some observers noticed a satellite and found it was unreported or unknown? Wouldn't want it getting out to the Chinese that we found it, so shutdown the PO.

I dunno, just brainstorming.


Is there really ZERO info on this?

Hey I actually believe that's a new theory lol it's certainly more plausible than some of the others. Just briefly caught images of a spy satellite otherwise unknown to us, though if it were visible here it likely would have been visable elsewhere too so idk.

a reply to: Tempter

The only scope functioning on site, as far as official records go, is the Dunn scope. It's not suited to seeing satellites.
It's one he'll of a scope for looking at the sun though.

Sorry. My phone really doesn't like the word he'll. It's a good Christian phone

a reply to: caterpillage

What if for some reason it were a satelite positioned around our sun and just happened to pass in front of the area being observed? Probably improbable but not impossible right? I honestly am pretty ignorant to what capabilites Dunn scope would have

a reply to: autopat51

Care to elaborate at all on what you believe was seen? Or, is that the extent of it....

a reply to: itswhatev

Maybe saw some technology they weren't suppose to see. Or a Russian or Chinese sat. used advanced weapons or something crazy to mess with the observatory.

a reply to: itswhatev

He saw... Yo mama! Haha just messing around. For real though. Whatchu see Pat?

originally posted by: itswhatev
a reply to: caterpillage

What if for some reason it were a satelite positioned around our sun and just happened to pass in front of the area being observed? Probably improbable but not impossible right? I honestly am pretty ignorant to what capabilites Dunn scope would have

Chances are it wouldn’t be able to focus at that distance but I could be wrong.

a reply to: BigDave-AR



Hmm fair enough, works for me lol i feel like I need a literal dry-erase board so that I can start listing the possibilities and crossing them off as they are either disproven or not. But then, knowing myself, I'd start obsessing over it and the last time that happened my partner made me promise to take a 6 month sabbatical from ATS lol granted that's been a few years ago but he really though I had plunged off the deeo end. He doesnt "get" conspiracy theories in genersk nor my fascination with stuff like this

a reply to: itswhatev

It would likely spot something like that. I'm not sure how it would look exactly... But I'm sure it would see something.

But

One of the points brought up time to time is telescopes being pointed in such and such locations.
Like, Hey! 10 scopes are all pointed at the sun! They all see the same thing! Right?
Not really.

The Dunn sees the sun close up. Like real close up. It's one bad dude that way.

Did you know the surface of the sun is granular?
It looks like clay ground that hasn't had rain in a long time.

This thing looks at the sun in freaking detail.
It's one he'll of a damn scope.

This thing makes me wish I stayed in school and majored in heliophiscics kinda cool. Lol the b is kicking in. Sorry.

But really. It could yes.

But, what could close orbit the sun?
I've seen the same videos as you all have of alien ships refueling off the sun, but seriously.
That thing is hot. Really hot.
If you have the tech to harness the power of a star, do you really think you would have to get up close and personal to do it?

We do it here on earth. Now. With solar tech.

Honestly, no aliens are parking right next to the sun.
I believe. Honestly I do, but I also know physics (a little) and engineering (a little).

The alien ship can refuel just fine from a safe distance.

This has me wanting to get back into astronomy I was a huge stargazer when I was a kid, one year my mom even named a star after me with the international star registry or whatever, still have the certificate hanging in my room next to my autographed picture of James Doohan (beam me up Scotty!)

originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: caterpillage

Someone here already figured it mostly out a while ago. But people took detour and wanted to talk about solar flares, aliens and other stuff. Reread the thread

Hell thats like saying read the dictionary all of it's there you just got to put it in the right order. You sound like Mark Felt/Deep Throat in All the Presidents Men.

a reply to: BigDave-AR

I always wanted a star named after me but only because I'm a bit conceited sometimes... And I think it would be cool haha I have always been fascinated with space and the endless possibilites within it. I really would like to believe this had some sort of ET angle, i just think they wouldve stepped in and shut rhe conjecture down a long time ago with a nifty plausibly-deniable coverstory by now lol especially given its location. Not just with thenAFB and whitesands...but Roswell no less.

Fun fact, my dad was born in Roswell, NM the year the.. Uh.. "Weather baloon" crashed. His father was a pilot in the Airforce and his Mother's family is from Roswell. Used to joke that he was an alien both to me AND this world :. ( a little Absentee father & self-depreciating humor in one)

originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: caterpillage

Someone here already figured it mostly out a while ago. But people took detour and wanted to talk about solar flares, aliens and other stuff. Reread the thread

You sound like Mark Felt/Deep Throat in All the Presidents Men.

except Deepthroat turned out to actually have inside info lol no offense to pat, but yeah the routine is a bit cliché for sure especially for ATS