swoods_blue
4th February 2015, 14:33
OK, I thought this article, from the Victorville Daily Press, was sufficiently tantalizing to share here.
It's mostly a pretty nuts-and-bolts story about NASA's Deep Space Network, which tracks and communicates with various bits of hardware we've fired out into the Solar System. But the security manager interviewed in the story seems to be teasing us with... something:
Here's the beginning of the story:
VICTORVILLE — A NASA Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex employee said unidentified objects do exist in the vast depths of outer space, but jokingly said she could not “confirm or deny” the existence of aliens while speaking to the Victorville Rotary Club on Tuesday.
“My father always calls me and asks me, ‘Are the aliens coming?’ ” Carmen Cortinas said lightheartedly. “I tell him I cannot confirm or deny it. But there are unidentified objects in space.”
And the ending:
Cortinas said the Fort Irwin facility is self-sustaining, with chefs and emergency personnel on site. She said she could not disclose the number of employees that work there but said many live in the local area.
I find it really interesting that a facility supposedly built to track scientific missions is self-sustaining, and that the number of staff is secret. Why would that be? It seems to suggest that there are military purposes for this facility.
Complete story:
http://www.vvdailypress.com/article/20150203/NEWS/150209941/12982/NEWS
It's mostly a pretty nuts-and-bolts story about NASA's Deep Space Network, which tracks and communicates with various bits of hardware we've fired out into the Solar System. But the security manager interviewed in the story seems to be teasing us with... something:
Here's the beginning of the story:
VICTORVILLE — A NASA Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex employee said unidentified objects do exist in the vast depths of outer space, but jokingly said she could not “confirm or deny” the existence of aliens while speaking to the Victorville Rotary Club on Tuesday.
“My father always calls me and asks me, ‘Are the aliens coming?’ ” Carmen Cortinas said lightheartedly. “I tell him I cannot confirm or deny it. But there are unidentified objects in space.”
And the ending:
Cortinas said the Fort Irwin facility is self-sustaining, with chefs and emergency personnel on site. She said she could not disclose the number of employees that work there but said many live in the local area.
I find it really interesting that a facility supposedly built to track scientific missions is self-sustaining, and that the number of staff is secret. Why would that be? It seems to suggest that there are military purposes for this facility.
Complete story:
http://www.vvdailypress.com/article/20150203/NEWS/150209941/12982/NEWS