[United857]

TLDR: one part of the US government didn't bother to inform another part of the US government what was going on.

[nomel]

They informed the ATC. One would assume that's the ideal mediary for this sort of thing.

Jumpers to ATC: "Hey, we're going here to jump here."

Capitol to ATC: "Hey, who's that and where are they going?"

[daenz]

Reminds me of the Hawaii nuclear launch alert in 2018[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler...