The Honolulu Star-Bulletin published a picture and article about a flying saucer that had supposedly crashed into a mountain on the island of Hawaii. The joke unintentionally took in victims thousands of miles away when a local ham radio operator, believing the news report to be real, broadcast a description of the flying-saucer crash. An amateur radioman in Michigan heard the broadcast and reported it to his local paper, the Herald-Press. The Herald-Press only realized the report was an April Fool's Day joke after it queried the AP, who in turn queried their office in Hawaii. [The Herald-Press (St. Joseph, Michigan), Apr 4, 1950.]