{"id":383974,"date":"2026-01-01T04:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383974\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T04:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:02:16","slug":"explosives-reported-at-space-force-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383974\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosives Reported at Space Force Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emergency officials raced to a Space Force base in Aurora, Colorado on report of possible explosives at a garage facility \u2014 but thankfully none were found, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/local\/incident-at-buckley-space-force-base-prompts-emergency-response\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:local broadcaster;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">local broadcaster <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/local\/incident-at-buckley-space-force-base-prompts-emergency-response\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KDVR;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KDVR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident unfolded on Monday at around 10:25 am when local officials received a call about suspicious materials at a facility on the Buckley Space Force Base, prompting authorities to set up a 1,000 foot perimeter circle around a large garage building and shutting down adjacent streets for an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aerial shots taken by the broadcaster shows what appears to be the facility at the center of the emergency call: a large two-bay garage with construction equipment and trucks parked either inside and outside the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials from Buckley Space Force Base told KDVR that \u201cno threat was found\u201d and the emergency situation was resolved by 2:15 pm. In addition to the police, the base\u2019s fire department, security, and explosive ordnance disposal crew reported to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Space Force, the youngest organization within the US Department of Defense, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceforce.mil\/about-us\/about-space-force\/history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:started in 2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">started in 2019<\/a> to be the country\u2019s military space defense organization and currently has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceforce.com\/faq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:around 9,400 active duty personnel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">around 9,400 active duty personnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/05\/the-new-space-race-what-are-chinas-ambitions-and-why-is-the-us-so-concerned\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:space race with China;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">space race with China<\/a> heats up, Space Force is expected to grow in size and capability, while concurrently becoming a target for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/us-government-warning-space-industry-satellites-hacking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:espionage and sabotage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">espionage and sabotage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More on Space Force: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-administration-gutting-space-force-181046405.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Trump Administration Is Gutting the Space Force;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Trump Administration Is Gutting the Space Force<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency officials raced to a Space Force base in Aurora, Colorado on report of possible explosives at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,206449,206450,206451,128,285,60546],"class_list":["post-383974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-buckley-space-force-base","tag-emergency-officials","tag-garage-facility","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}