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On 10 March 2016, the web site News4KTLA published an article reporting that NASA had issued a frightening advisory concerning the possibility that the trajectory a rogue planet known as Nibiru or Planet X would intersect Earth's orbit, with potentially disastrous consequences: This report was untrue, just another clickbait fabrication originating with News4KTLA, a fake news site that has appropriated the call letters of a legitimate Los Angeles television station and news outlet (KTLA). NASA has never issued any such warning, nor reported the existence of any rogue planet. In fact, NASA has stated just the opposite, that no planet such as Niburu is known to exist: Nonetheless, fringe religious elements periodically invoke doomsday scenarios that posit an apocalypse brought about by another planet's passing in close proximity to Earth, with one such instance supposedly set to occur on 23 September 2017, as reported by Fox News: Ed Stetzer, a pastor and executive director of Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center, took exception to such reporting in a piece published on the web site of Christianity Today:
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