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>>2991487 (last bread re solar observatory shutdown in Cloudcroft NM)
shutting down the solar observatories will not stop sun storms and other solar related activities such as comets, and asteroids, and what not.
However solar observatories do use volunteers PCs for processing power to help save money and keep the observatory running. Was that used to "set up comms"?
Shutting down the whole town? A "security issue" requiring choppers? Sounds like someone was cooking something at the observatory that wasn't solar related. Who would challenge University folk and PHds at an observatory?
My only other speculations are this. The solar observatory is debunking "climate change" which if debunked will not only ruin careers and reputations, it throws off entire global policy and cuts off the money supply. I can't prove this, but I am not buying aliens (yet) despite weird spooky planet sized stuff near the sun. The other answer is to hide military sat activity that is in the viewing field of the solar scope. But none of that needs choppers. Why the "show" of force?