The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared a “national defense airspace” over a portion of Lake Michigan on Sunday, temporarily closing down the area for commercial and civilian air traffic. The agency appeared to have canceled the declaration a short while later.
The FAA has not clarified why it set up the flight restriction, which encompassed a square area that encompassed a portion of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the northwestern part of the Lower Peninsula, and parts of Wisconsin.
The FAA notice, which bans civilian air traffic from the area, was done for  “national defense” reasons, according to a map monitoring FAA notices, the AFP news agency, Reuters, and Fox News….