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LocationCityEl Paso is the West Texas border city beside Fort Bliss whose sudden February 2026 airspace closure, officially tied to counter-drone laser use, became a focus of unconfirmed UAP shoot-down claims.
El Paso is the West Texas border city beside Fort Bliss whose sudden February 2026 airspace closure, officially tied to counter-drone laser use, became a focus of unconfirmed UAP shoot-down claims.
El Paso is the seat of El Paso County and the most populous city in West Texas, set on the Rio Grande directly across from Ciudad Juárez. It had 678,815 residents at the 2020 census, and with Juárez and Las Cruces, New Mexico, it anchors the binational Paso del Norte region of about 2.7 million people. Fort Bliss, the Army's second-largest installation, sits beside El Paso International Airport and stretches north into New Mexico toward White Sands Missile Range.
A military post founded across from El Paso del Norte in 1848 was renamed Fort Bliss in 1854; the town, settled as Franklin in 1849, took the name El Paso in 1852 and incorporated in 1873. Fort Bliss became the Army's anti-aircraft and air-defense center from the 1940s, and after World War II it housed German rocket specialists who supported V-2 launches at White Sands before many moved to Huntsville, Alabama. The post also controls the largest contiguous block of restricted airspace in the continental United States.
At 11:30 p.m. on February 10, 2026, the FAA closed the airspace within 10 nautical miles of El Paso up to 17,999 feet, citing "special security reasons" and initially setting a 10-day restriction that shut the airport. It lifted the order under eight hours later, citing a cartel drone incursion. The Associated Press and The New York Times reported that Customs and Border Protection had used an experimental military laser at Fort Bliss without FAA coordination and that the target was later identified as a party balloon; the administration did not confirm that account, and later reporting described an FAA-Pentagon standoff. Fourteen flights were canceled.
Commentators later recast the closure as a UAP event. Mathematician Eric Weinstein said in a May 2026 podcast appearance that he did not believe the cartel-drone explanation, adding, "I think El Paso is a name for White Sands," and podcaster Pavel Ibarra Meda said his own contacts described a UFO event there. In August 2026 journalist Ross Coulthart reported, citing anonymous sources, that President Trump had authorized efforts to bring down UAP, with directed-energy weapons used over White Sands; social media accounts tied his report to El Paso, though his quoted remarks did not name the city. No agency has linked the closure to UAP. El Paso matters as the meeting point of a busy border, a major Army post, and the New Mexico test ranges, a setting in which counter-drone operations can close civilian airspace without warning and invite much larger claims.
[Retweeted] 1/4 Weinstein comments on potential UAP "luring" operations near sensitive military bases. In a recent interview, mathematician and physicist Eric Weinstein (@ericweinstein) questioned the official explanation for the February 11, 2026, closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas. Pointing to reports of unexplained lights near White Sands Missile Range, Weinstein rejected the explanation involving Mexican cartel drones, stating, “I don't believe it's cartel drones.” He suggested two p...
Probed ingest of: Did Trump Authorize The Shootdown Of UFOs?
[Retweeted] 🧵 TIMELINE: White Sands, El Paso, UFOs & counter-drone activity since late 2025: Late 2025 — At an unidentified U.S. testing facility, officials reportedly encounter glowing orbs near a helicopter and fighter jets. Claims the objects were deliberately “lured” remain unverified. 8–10 Feb 2026 — Enigma Labs logs three UAP reports from El Paso, including alleged glowing orbs, a large hovering object and four round objects. 10–11 Feb — FAA abruptly closes El Paso airspace. The admini...
[Retweeted] 🧵 TIMELINE: White Sands, El Paso, UFOs & counter-drone activity since late 2025: Late 2025 — At an unidentified U.S. testing facility, officials reportedly encounter glowing orbs near a helicopter and fighter jets. Claims the objects were deliberately “lured” remain unverified. 8–10 Feb 2026 — Enigma Labs logs three UAP reports from El Paso, including alleged glowing orbs, a large hovering object and four round objects. 10–11 Feb — FAA abruptly closes El Paso airspace. The admini...
🧵 TIMELINE: White Sands, El Paso, UFOs & counter-drone activity since late 2025: Late 2025 — At an unidentified U.S. testing facility, officials reportedly en [Quoted] Liberation Times put Coulthart’s claim directly to the White House. We asked: ‘Has President Trump, as Commander-in-Chief, issued any order, directive or authorization permitting U.S. military personnel to shoot down UAP, UFOs, unidentified “orbs” or other unidentified airborne objects?’
ABDUCTEE Michael Johnson WOKE UP IN AREA 51?! 🛸 Air Force veteran Michael Johnson recounts a bizarre missing-time experience while hauling a truckload from El Paso to Dallas. Johnson says he took a wrong turn, saw a UFO cross his field of vision, and was then pulled over by a police officer who told him he was in Nevada, on government property. Could he have been “dropped off” near Area 51?👇
The mind is still boggled that the confirmation of non-human intelligence has apparently moved into the category of an event for which at least some part of the U.S. government believes contingency planning is warranted. This is no longer a what-if scenario. And the questions remains: what changed or what was learned (say, over the last 9 months) that made someone decide this was a contingency worth preparing for? White Sands and El Paso, looking at you... [Quoted] https://t.co/bm8dBEnUSl @UA...
Ross Coulthart: "There has been a Government Operation to summon & shoot down UFO's of non human origin. It's at the request of President Trump" 🛸👽🇺🇸 “Yes, they have been summoning, detecting, and yes, shooting down what we some call drones, others UAPs.” The February El Paso airspace shutdown was not about cartel drones or a party balloon. It was a sudden FAA closure with almost no warning, Defense Department personnel on site, and lawmakers still demanding classified briefings that have...
RT @InterstellarUAP: Eric Weinstein: "I know what some of these UAP are at White Sands & El Paso but I can't tell you" 👽🛸😱 Earlier today,…
RT @planethunter56: So there's UFO luring (like the alleged Skywatcher/El Paso event from earlier this year) and then there's UFO baiting.…
