Saw this get flagged up on a couple of tracking sites and yeah, the timing was proper suspicious. They didn't even bother with a decent cover story, just the usual "military exercise" vagueness which at this point is basically them winking at you.
Living out on Dartmoor I'm used to random airspace closures over dodgy patches of moorland with no explanation, so I recognise the pattern. You slap a TFR over something and most people just shrug and move on. Smart, really, hiding things in plain sight with bureaucratic paperwork.
Anyone actually manage to grab the NOTAM details before it expired? Curious what altitude ceiling they specified because that tells you a lot about what they're worried about - drones, light aircraft, or something else entirely. Would love to know if anyone was monitoring RF in the area during that window.