If television has taught us anything, it's that evacuations are always very bad. In fact we don't even really need television to tell us that, because generally speaking, any time you say the words "Everyone get out of here, we're evacuating!" then people usually get the hint that things are very bad.
According to multiple reports, on September 6 the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico, where one of the world's largest solar telescopes lives, was shut down and evacuated without warning or explanation. Then, because the whole story wasn't conspiracy-ish enough, the FBI showed up and started crawling all over the place like Mulder and Scully in Season 2, Episode 1, only without the Illuminati theme song. And to make the mystery even more mysterious, the FBI wouldn't tell anyone what was going on, even though the FBI is usually so candid and forthcoming about everything.
Anyway the observatory stayed closed for 11 days, and then it opened back up again and employees probably weren't at all anxious about returning to a workplace that had recently been evacuated for mysterious reasons having to do with the FBI. The only thing authorities would say was that there was a "suspect" who "potentially posed a threat," but they failed to elaborate on whether it was a human suspect or a gray alien suspect, so clearly they're hiding something. Because you know, New Mexico. Right?
SOLVED: As it turned out, the real explanation for the observatory's shutdown was much more horrific than an X-Files style alien conspiracy. According to NPR, the FBI believed someone at the observatory was using the WiFi to download and distribute child pornography. Let's just pretend it was aliens instead, though.
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