Been here a few times. It's always a "ghost town" with no people to be found around. It's wound into the mountain pretty far, not real easy to access.
The missile range or the national monument
Well to be more specific it's not even in a town at all. Its it's own thing off the side of the road a ways from ang civilization.
Just for context, The observatory is in the mountain by Holloman AFB. Driving would take 40 mins to get there however it sits on the side of the mountain looking out into the valley. A couple other key things involving space is there is a giant space museum in Alamogordo. Then you have Holloman where there is fighter squadrons and a German air force training and training for the Predator and Reaper unmanned aircraft.
About ten minutes driving past Holloman is white Sands national monument. Then you keep going away from the observatory and you reach white sands missile range. About 45 minutes from Holloman. However, the "range" is huge and almost the whole valley. Also to note there is a new space center out there in that valley that was just built.
This is where the F-117 stealth fighter was built and tested (at Holloman) unbeknownst to even the POTUS at the time.
Lots of stuff happens in this valley. Including the first atomic bomb being dropped there. MUCHO spying to be done in this valley.
Also the next set of mountains south of the observatory is one of those mountains where something is happening INSIDE the mountain but no one knows what. I had friends that worked inside it but couldn't say what they did.
Sorry for rambling.
I wish I could too! I no longer live there but have lived AT white sands missile range and at Holloman twice and I know the area quite well.
Maybe they were mormons. Kek