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AP Meteor Crash Report Was a Hoax

by  iMediaEthics Staff June 03, 2004 12:00 AM EST

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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.

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