Fake news! NYT posts bizarre story about fruit aliens planting fields of WATERMELONS on Mars - before swiftly deleting it and admitting it was a mock article never meant to be published
The New York Times published an article titled Fields of Watermelons Found On Mars, Police Say at 2:19pm on Tuesday
The subhead followed: Authorities say rise of fruit aliens is to blame for glut of outer space watermelons
The story was live for less than an hour before being removed, though its brief contents were archived before the Times could get to it
It was replaced on the newspaper s website with a note reading: This article was published in error