The US military's Pacific Command said on Saturday (local time) there was no ballistic missile threat to Hawaii after an official message was mistakenly sent to Hawaii residents' mobile phones warning them of an imminent attack. A spokesman for the command said it "detected no ballistic missile threat to Hawaii" and that the message warning had been sent in error. Gabbard also tweeted the mistaken alert, which said: "EMERGENCY ALERT BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency's Twitter account also said "NO missile threat to Hawaii." US Senator Mazie Hirono, a Democrat from Hawaii, said on Twitter, "Today’s alert was a false alarm.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 13, 2018 20:03 UTC