{"id":216639,"date":"2026-01-04T18:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216639\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:16:19","slug":"explosives-reported-at-space-force-facility-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216639\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosives Reported at Space Force Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"archive-post-thumb article-featured-image w-full h-auto mb-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/explosives-space-force-facility.png\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1490\" height=\"1172\" alt=\"A report of suspicious explosives at a Space Force Base was made on Monday in Colorado, prompting an emergency response.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tRekonDog at English Wikipedia\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"pw-incontent-excluded article-paragraph skip\">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 noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">local broadcaster <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/local\/incident-at-buckley-space-force-base-prompts-emergency-response\/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KDVR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">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=\"article-paragraph skip\">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=\"article-paragraph skip\">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=\"article-paragraph skip\">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 noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">around 9,400 active duty personnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">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 noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">espionage and sabotage<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">More on Space Force: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/trump-government-gutting-space-force\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Trump Administration Is Gutting the Space Force<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RekonDog at English Wikipedia Emergency officials raced to a Space Force base in Aurora, Colorado on report of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-216639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}