More than 14 blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.

Local News Looking back at the Boston Mooninite panic, 10 years later How a tiny LED sign turned the city upside down. A "Mooninite" hanging beneath an overpass in Boston, Monday Jan. 15, 2007.

Several additional suspicious devices were found Wednesday in different areas of the city. The devices proved to be hoaxes, part of a marketing campaign for the cartoon Aqua ...