For what reason would you hazard a guess about why it went up a notch? NK? The ME?
NYT is planning a Special Edition for Sunday?
It's gotta be the asteroid.
4th of July. All bases go on heightened alert on those days the enemy is most likely to want to strike. I know this one for fact. I don't know specifically about the Colorado Springs Bravo-Plus Alert.
Okay: Patrick AFB is the home of the eastern testing range for missiles and is where NASA conducts prefight tests on it's "products." Vandenburg is a military launch base where they send military satellites into orbit. Bigger stuff than a suborbital ICBM. NORAD of course tracks everything in the skies, including Santa's annual flight.
When my dad's company was contracted to NASA in the 1960's I just about grew up on the eastern testing range. I'll bet I was the only five year old kid to have a top secret security clearance photo ID allowing me to go anyplace with my dad. I still have that pass. THat's how I know about Patrick AFB and that is the sum total of my USAF knowledge. Can anybody connect the dots from here?