The theories surrounding the "no-fly zone" over Galveston are nonsense, and here's why:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

I've seen everything from the discovery of Lafitte's treasure to the presence of a bioweapons lab to the coverup of the presence of 900 dead bodies cited as a reason for the FAA's supposed "no-fly zone" over Galveston and the Bolivar peninsula.

The following information has been posted in several threads by several different people, but I'd like to call attention to it here in the hopes that people will stop misrepresenting (intentionally or not) the facts.

This is the text of the NOTAM that was issued by the FAA:

http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_8_8191.html

I would specifically like to call your attention to the last line in the "affected areas" section:

Altitude: From the surface up to and including 2000 feet MS

The "no-fly zone" if it can even be called that only extends up to 2000 feet above sea level. There is NO restriction on flying over Galveston or Bolivar peninsula EXCEPT below 2000 feet.

As pointed out by others, this is more than enough for anyone with a decent telephoto lens to get extremely detailed shots of whatever they want to see in the affected area. Like the supposed "media blackout," the "no-fly zone" meme has been repeated ad nauseum, third hand, by people who either haven't read or haven't understood the NOTAM.

That is all.

[tekisui]

1. Disaster and confusion breed speculation.

Conflicting reports breed mistrust. Things are likely not as bad as some say, but surely worse than what others claim. Time will tell.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. I agree.

But spreading baseless, easily disproven speculation is irresponsible.

[MiniMe]

3. The treasure thing is a joke, literally

Sometimes humor is used to lessen the blow, this is one of those times. If *co hadn't screwed up Katrina so badly, there wouldn't be half the speculation out there that there is now. *co has hidden so many things from the American people, that people are wondering what they are hiding this time. I'm not saying that the speculation is true, just why people don't believe what they are being told.