This is a link to information about the shut down of numerous observatories within hours of the raid at sun spot observatory.
The closed observatories were: AXIS 232D Network Dome Camera located in Sydney Australia Webcams located at SOAR Observatory – The Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope located in Chile BRT Tenerife Telescope Webcam located in Spain Webcam located at Mauna Kea observatory at the University of Hawaii Hilo Webcam from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope observatory in Hawaii Webcam at JAT Observatory in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania
The Sun spot observatory was shut down for eleven days in 2018. It was reported black hawk helicopters deployed FBI agents to the observatory. It was reported that employees for the observatory was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
People we’re not able to be in there own homes in a Area designated by the FBI. The area was off limits to everyone including the police for 11 days.
The reason given was the janitor was using the internet for childporn. Here is article about his indictment https://apnews.com/general-news-6816b7feb20f37b613af2929b97c8c32
Alamagordo Daily News
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/amp/ncna910211
Within hours of this happening,. a local private observatory located in Fairless Hills Pennsylvania called the JAT Observatory was offline as well.
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