A communication professor known for conspiracy theories has stirred controversary at Florida Atlantic University with claims that last month's Newtown, Conn., school shootings did not happen as reported — or may not have happened at all.

One Florida Atlantic University communications professor has stepped forward with an outrageous claim around the Sandy Hook school shooting being a hoax by the Obama administration.

James Tracy, 47, has given multiple radio interviews and posted a self-conceived timeline of the tragedy in Newton on his blog, memoryholeblog.com, in which he says the murders never happened

Moreover, James Tracy asserts in radio interviews and on his memoryholeblog.com. that trained "crisis actors" may have been employed by the Obama administration in an effort to shape public opinion in favor of the event's true purpose: gun control. [...]

Tracy said he believes the deaths at Sandy Hook may have resulted from a training exercise. "Was this to a certain degree constructed?" he said. "Was this a drill?