FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory

Re:FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory by dlivingston on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:49AM (#17979543)

I was raised in Alamogordo (a satellite town to HAFB and directly 'down the hill' from Sunspot) and, while I don't have any information other than what other posters have offered, I can tell you that my entire family is farrr too excited that our tiny little hometown is national news for once

Edit: for clarification, HAFB and all of White Sands Missile Range sits on flatlands surrounded by two mountains; the Organ Mountains on the west (close to Las Cruces) and Sunspot Observatory sits on the very edge of the mountain ranges to the east. Spying on HAFB and WSMR from Sunspot is certainly plausible.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory by nrdgrl on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:17PM (#17982146)

I once drove the highway through the white sands missile range, 2 days in a row (tourist). I went through a DHS checkpoint twice where they checked my ID and asked detailed questions about where I was going and why. The second day they wanted to know why I had gone two days in a row. There are (where back then anyway) big barriers they would lower to close a portion of the highway during 'missile' tests.

A fascinating place to visit.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory by rplst8 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:31PM (#17979904)

Isn't New Mexico State U there? The Aggies?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory by peapicker on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:23PM (#17981017)

No, NMSU main campus is over the Organ mountains to the west in Las Cruces. (I graduated from there...) Alamogordo has a small branch-college-sized piece of NMSU.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory by influx on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:49PM (#17980115)

Yes, it is.

[ Parent | on HN ]