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A conspiracy theory that proof of alien life is being covered up is swirling after FBI agents swooped on a space observatory, evacuated it – and refused to explain why or what has happened.
The Sunspot Solar Observatory usually spends its time looking at the Sun and trying to understand our celestial neighbour. But it has been banned from doing so for the past week, since federal agents secretly arrived and shut down the entire area.
Its website only says that the shutdown happened "due to unforeseen circumstances" and that the facility would remain closed "until further notice".
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Local police said they had received reports that FBI agents arrived in a Blackhawk helicopter and swooped around the observatory. They would not even tell law enforcement why they were there, police said.
The local sheriff's office said it had no explanation of what had happened, but suggested that there was "a lot of stuff going on".
"The FBI is refusing to tell us what's going on," Otero County Sheriff Benny House told ABC 7.