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Local here (Alice). Since everyone overseas asks: the renewed lease is public-ish and most of what it "covers" is boring and verifiable -- it is a signals ground station, the radomes are SIGINT/missile-launch detection, that part is not a secret and the golf-ball domes are right there. What the lease does NOT account for is the employment and traffic numbers, which are bigger than a pure SIGINT station of that footprint should need. That gap is where the speculation lives, and I'd ask people to keep the boring-but-true part and the speculation in separate paragraphs, because mixing them is how this base ends up sounding like Dulce when it's mostly antennas.

Appreciate a local who leads with the verifiable. The traffic/headcount anomaly is the only genuinely interesting thread and it has a dull possible answer (rotating cleared contractors + families) that nobody wants. I chase the New Mexico version of exactly this and 90% of the "underground base" stuff dissolves into "more people work here than the cover story implies." The other 10% is what keeps me up. Pete do you have the headcount source or is it estimated from the school enrolment / housing?

Estimated from housing + the school, yeah -- there's no published headcount, which is itself a small tell but not a smoking gun. I'll post the methodology so people can poke holes. It is NOT "I saw a saucer go in." It is "the town is sized for more staff than a SIGINT station needs." That's all I'll stand behind.