Mate this is exactly the kind of thing that keeps me up at night. I was actually following that whole situation pretty closely and yeah, the timing of those restrictions is way too neat to be coincidence. Like they went up what, 48 hours before anything got reported publicly? That's not standard airspace management, that's containment.
I'll be honest I'm still pretty new to digging into this stuff so I might be missing some technical context around FAA procedures, but even from where I'm standing it looks off. Has anyone actually filed a FOIA request for the specific documentation around why those restrictions were issued? I'd love to see what reason they logged officially.
The Skinwalker area has such a weird ongoing relationship with government interest anyway, BAASS and all that history. Makes you wonder if whatever they're monitoring out there had a particularly active period and someone higher up wanted eyes away from the sky. Anyone else been tracking the restriction logs?