What are all the possible reasons to do this?
Has this ever happened?
A credible threat from Iran? More likely a technical issue.
Happened in 2023 https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-notam-statement
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previous time it happened right before chinese baloon made the news
it may be something similar - remove all random, but controllable sources of radar return for military to start scanning
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