![]() Their article claimed that in 2005, the antennas at Sugar Grove were sweeping 1.8 million phone calls, texts, emails, and other communications targeting foreign contacts a day. Those documents were reported by The Intercept, a non-profit news organization founded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Those documents had very specific information on how much those telescopes are taking in every day.” “The reason we know how much data they’re getting in are through the documents leaked by Edward Snowden about ten years ago when he was a contractor for the NSA. The lower base was put up for sale in 2017, but plans to turn the base into a health care campus never materialized.įor years, work at the Upper base went largely under the radar until leaks by a NSA government contractor, Edward Snowden, in 2013, claimed to expose some of the work going on up there. It is around that same time, work at the Upper base at Sugar Grove began to separate from a lower base operated by the U.S. Kurczy said the National Security Agency (NSA) started to take an interest in the Upper base around the 1980s. “The dish, the (original) intent of it, was to point it at the moon and be able to capture soviet signals as they bounced up from the USSR to the moon and land in that dish in Sugar Grove to learn what the Soviets wanted.” While Green Bank was built in a football shape to listen to galaxies far away, Sugar Grove was built in a bowl to intercept overhead satellite communications. Navy communicate with ships.īoth sites were built in areas surrounded by mountains, and according to Kurzcy, that was by design. military was developed that at one point helped the U.S. Instead, a smaller scale listening station for the U.S. The initial goal was to monitor the Soviets at the start of the Cold War, but that plan was scrapped due to escalating costs. The book’s authors said the initial plans for Sugar Grove included a telescope much bigger than Green Bank (485 feet) at 600 feet tall. ![]() Ultimately, though, Sugar Grove was chosen partly due to its proximity to Washington, D.C. ![]() They even suggested Burke’s Garden in Virginia as an initial site for the project. Balser claimed plans for a 600 foot telescope for the military were put in place long before any discussions of a National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Kurczy’s reporting on the construction of the site is backed up by claims in an earlier book ‘But it was Fun: the first forty years of radio astronomy in Green Bank.’ In that book, the authors F.J. In Sugar Grove, it’s about the secret surveillance of all of the texts and emails and phone calls we’re doing every single day.” It is located at another site built thirty miles Northeast of the telescope. “My distaste for this device (cell phone) led me to West Virginia, where there are state and federal laws against using a cell phone and wireless devices in the National Radio Quiet Zone, and at the very heart of it is Green Bank, our country’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory.”īut through his journey, Kurczy learned there is another star on the map in the quiet zone that you wouldn’t find at the Green Bank gift shop. ![]()
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