To be fair, JPL is local to LA, and it doesn't take a heck of a lot of research to know about somewhere that appears on the local news now and again.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"