The Signs: Planes carrying banners announcing “You Have Been Warned 6/6/06” have created a stir recently. Some panic ensued at Arizona’s Lake Havasu as spring breakers saw the signs overhead. And the Air Force was prompted to investigate after numerous calls were made to emergency numbers and news stations in Panama City, Fla.

“Our job is to watch the airways for things that don’t seem right,” says Air Force spokesman Mike Strickler of Tyndall Air Force Base, adding that the banner was a publicity stunt. The signs are part of 20th Century Fox’s campaign for its release June 6 of "The Omen," a remake of the 1976 chiller. More banner tows and billboards are expected to hit L.A., New York, and other cities.

Fox spokesman Jeffrey Godsick says, “The reaction confirms that the numbers 666 affect people as they have throughout history.”

(Source: USA Today and AP Newswire -- Also check out this story at the Daytona Beach News-Journal.)