Amen, that pretty much sums it up.

Another look:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/04/they_arent_doing_the_right_tes.php

Point being anyone can claim anything. Used to be reputable journalists would filter out the worse of the charlatans and cranks so you had to dig, subscribe obscure newsletters or magazines:
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/01/monckton_in_nexus.php

Or visit certain backwater storefronts to find that sort of thing. Now there is so much bandwidth to be filled that virtually anything will make the cut.

Along the same lines -
They found Noah's Ark:
http://scienceblogs.com/tfk/2010/04/fake_noahs_ark_found_on_mt_ara.php

Aliens captured:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/beware_the_trantaloids.php