Did the original story, come from a radio broadcast, or from you partner's meeting with people involved?
One thing I find missing as there isn’t any info on the Web about such events happening.
It would be my expectation that if some people saw such events and talked among friends
that some of this would be out there on the social media sites. A web search doesn’t
show any in my search which may not be valid but just an attempt to find some other
talk of the events.