 In a 2012 article "The Boston Phoenix" called the incident the "Great Mooninite Panic of 2007".A 2013 publication by WGBH News wrote that the majority of Boston youth thought that the arrests of two men who placed devices, Peter "Zebbler" Berdovsky and Sean Stevens, were not warranted.In November 2006, Boston area artist Zebbler (aka Peter Berdovsky) met a man named John (who goes by the handle VJ Aiwaz on the online forum LaserBoy.org) in New York City.