"Lens Model" metadata field

I have been using Aperture 2 version 2.14 for about a week. Yesterday I noticed that a master showed one lens model and a version of that master showed another. The correct data is associated with the master and is "EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM" but the version shows the lens as a "Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG MACRO or Tokina AT-X242AF 24-200mm F3.5-5.6" which I do not own.
The subject photo was taken in the last few days so it's not a legacy photo from my previous software.
Has anyone noticed this before?

To the best of my knowledge this field is just text - Aperture does no translation of any kind on it so... This is the most funky thing that I have ever heard, it would sort of be like someone saying something like "Hey I have a Nikon D3x and a couple of my .NEF RAW files spontaneously turned into .CR2 files and they work and say that I have a Canon 40D but I don't even own a Canon, can somebody tell me why Aperture did this"
The answer is that Aperture didn't do it.
Bring up the RAW file that is a problem in the finder or export that master from Aperture and use another tool to look at the lens model data - it will say the same thing. If it does not say the same thing then this is the most whacky data corruption issue I have ever heard of where random data just happens to match up with actual lens manufacturers and models that actually exist.
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