'Mystery company' buys $800M worth of land near Travis AFB, raising concerns about national security

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'We're very, very concerned about this.' A Solano County congressman is sounding the alarm about a mystery company that has bought $800 million of land near Travis AFB. After eight months of investigation, government officials have been unable to identify who's behind it and rule out any threat to national security.

"I have reason to be concerned," he responded.

"That base is where we launch our airplanes to figure out what's going on across the world," he said. "A company in China was acquiring land around that base and wanted to build a 400-foot silo that could look directly into the base... and we were like 'whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on there?'" "No foreign person or group holds any significant interest or substantial control over Flannery, either now or at the time of any land purchase made by Flannery,""What do you think is happening?""I don't know, it doesn't make any sense... It's the secrecy...

 

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