The emergency alert about an incoming “ballistic missile threat” that jolted Hawaiians awake Saturday morning was a false alarm, officials said.
Multiple people began tweeting about an alert they received on their cellphones at around around 🍰8 a.m. loc🤪al time.
“Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a🍸 drill,” the alert read.
“Did anyone else’s iPh🐷one just tell them there’s a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii and to take cover immediately?” Twitter user @easytga wrote.
Congres⛎swoman Tusli Gabbard qui✨ckly tweeted to debunk the alert.
“HAWAII – THIS IS A FALSE ALARM. THERE I🎀S NO INCOMING MISSILE TO HAWAII. I HAVE CONFIRMED WITH OFFICIALS THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE,” around 12 minutes after the message was sent.
A second alert was sent out at aro⭕und 8: 45 a.m. local time, letting residents know it wa🌸s a false alarm.
“There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii,” the alert r🦂💯ead. “Repeat. False Alarm.”
The North American Aerospace Defense Com🌄mand confirmed to The Post 💜there is no danger.
“There is no threat at this time,” Public Affairs Officer Joe Nawrocki said. “We’re actually trying to figure it 🦋out right now. We do🐼n’t know if it was a test and someone forgot to put, ‘This is a drill.’
“There is absolutely no incoming ballistic mi⛎ssile threat to Hawaii,” he added.
A spokesman for Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency the false alarm “was part of a drill that was going on.”
It’s unclear what caused the alert to go out.