Did anyone else notice the FAA flight restrictions that popped up over Dugway last month?

Yeah I caught that. There were three separate TFRs stacked over the proving ground in a 10 day window which is unusual even by Dugway standards. Normally you get one and it's done.

What got me was the altitude ceiling on the second one - went up to FL600 which is way beyond what they'd need for a standard weapons test. That's SR-71 territory and above.

I've been cross-referencing with some ADS-B data from that period and theres some interesting gaps that don't match the published restriction zones. Someone was keeping traffic well clear of an area about 40 miles north of the main base perimeter.

Anyone in Utah who was watching the skies during that window? Would be good to get some ground level reports to go alongside the airspace data. This kind of thing is worth documenting properly before the records get quietly amended.

Three stacked TFRs in ten days is definitely not routine maintenance or standard training cycles. Dugway already operates under near-permanent restricted airspace so when they layer additional TFRs on top of that it means something physical was happening on the ground or in the low airspace that they didn't want eyes on, even military ones.

What I'd want to know is whether any of those TFRs had a listed altitude ceiling that was unusually high. Standard ground-test TFRs tend to cap around 3,000 feet. If any of these were pushing into the flight levels that's a different conversation entirely - that points toward something airborne being tested rather than just keeping drones or light aircraft away from a surface activity.

Anyone pull the actual FAA NOTAM data before it expired? That stuff vanishes quick and the archived versions sometimes have details stripped out compared to the live notices.