If people want to have a joke they need to make it believable. Like a good April Fool, it has to be plausible which is where so many spoofs fail. (The Guardian’s Republic of San Serife and BBC’s 1957 Spaghetti Harvest are good examples that worked well.)
Sadly the FAA like a lot of US government is shutdown right now and has been for sometime. So the FAA were not releasing anything on Dec31st 2018 as nobody was at work. At this point you don’t need to actually read any further.
