Saw this mentioned on a couple of other forums and went down a proper rabbit hole with it. The restrictions were listed as "National Defense Airspace". Which is the same classification they use around Area 51 - but the coordinates don't match the usual boundary. Slightly further north from what I could tell.
Been cross-referencing with some flight tracker data from that weekend. There were a few military transports that went dark over the region around the same time, which isn't unusual on its own, but combined with the TFR it does make you wonder.
What's interesting to me (and maybe this is the ghost hunter in me overthinking patterns) is that these temporary restrictions sometimes pop up before test flights of classified aircraft. The B-2 had a similar pattern of weird TFRs before it was publicly acknowledged. Whether that's relevant here I genuinely don't know.
A few things I'd love to know from anyone with more aviation knowledge than me:
How much notice does the FAA typically give for these?, Was there any NOTAM activity in the days leading up?, Did anyone on the ground in Nevada actually notice anything?
I'm coming at this purely as an amateur so happy to be corrected on any of the technical stuff. But the timing feels off to me and I think it's worth tracking. Anyone been monitoring the area since?