Thanks to reader rudy for tipping us to the confirmation that the space junk over Calgary was indeed a hoax. A story in the Vancouver Sun has chapter ansd verse on the phony story which originated with some joker calling himself “Reporter Cal Phillips.” And once again the popular signalling system Twitter was used to get the tale out there before it could be checked. The Sun called it a “scene reminiscent of Orson Welles’ famous War of the Worlds broadcast, an Internet hoax early Saturday had a NASA satellite the size of a bus crashing to Earth on a farm near Okotoks.”
