My personal response was "ridiculous", but I thought I would ask the man in charge, Jerry Kunzman. Here is his reply:
"WTF? Unreal.
Rumor has it that Forum trolls with nothing better to do will be abducted by aliens on the 4 day of Sept."
Now, if you want to quote exactly what was told to you (and by whom), maybe I can find some truth to it. For instance, for the past 2 years there has been the requirement for all 25-hours of Thunderhill race cars to have the "JAWS" lighting installed. NASA also changed the endurance lighting rules to limit the mounting areas.
The above rules are not in the CCRs, but they are in the specific rules for those races. Each Region can have their own supplemental rules so you might be talking about a local problem.