Posted on 02/11/2026 12:27:37 AM PST by Drago
Unusual shut down if a fairly major airport for 10 days....national security? Terror threat? Or ???
Maybe Guadalupe Peak is the new Devil’s Tower as in Close Encounters.
More like Minneapolis/St Paul
It would take a lot of planes to make this noise, but one plane after another would make sense.
But I can still buy a ticket on Southwest to get to El Paso ...
Fort Bliss is AT El Paso. They have the Army's air defense training mission.
Aanndddd ... the FAA just reopened the airspace, per the Dallas Morning Snooze.
Testing Anti Drone Capabilities. Cartels.
What’s really strange to me is the fact that it includes general aviation. If you’re concerned that some jackleg baggage handler is going to put a bomb on a commercial plane, why would it include doctor Steve flying his 210-R?
My wife and I live 5 hours east of El Paso (Midland Tx.) and would agree with most of your descriptions of what we heard last evening. It was spooky.
I’m outside Ruidoso.
There was something major up if we both heard it. I’m the other direction.
I run a drilling company and a huge huge multiwell frack could make that noise for that long (and have a flare to light up the sky) but there is zero oil and gas between Rui and El Paso.
So this was coming from your west? I’ll go look at mountain and triangulate better so we get a better line.
Know anyone to ask in Odessa or Andrews?
ChatGPT just told me it was a series of meteors
Yes, I wrote on FR on what was might happen without knowing it was already coming true.
We were forced to see that typical nebbish Democrat Mayor Renard Johnson with his panties in a bunch over the shutdown.
Another of the typical whiny Dem politicians who seem to infest the whole country.
The loudest sound (very loud) seemed to be flying directly over Midland from the east (Dallas) to the west (El Paso). The fading sound (rumbling) was a solid 15-20 minutes.
“Never mind”...U.S. military lasers & Mexican drug cartel drones?
https://x.com/FAANews/status/2021583720465969421?s=20
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