NEW YORK Associated Press editors were forced to retract an earlier report that a meteorite might have hit near Olympia, Wash., this morning after discovering that a source, one Bradley Hammermaster, claiming to be an astronomy professor, had perpetrated a hoax.Did the AP ever get around to printing the story about Jean Keri 'flipping off' the Veteran at the VietNam Memorial ??? I don't think they did.
But yet, they would publish 'The Sky is Falling' story .....
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"The story added, "No one by the name of Hammermaster is known to the astronomy department, and the description given by the caller to the station of the object -- an automobile-sized piece of a small car from a piece of the larger Trilene meteor -- was clearly bogus."