Hawaii emergency officials confirmed Saturday evening that an alert about an inbound ballistic missile was a mistake, which a state emergency official attributed to someone pushing the wrong button. At about 8:07 a.m. local time, Hawaii citizens received an emergency alert on their phone that read: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”At 8:20 a.m. local time, Hawaii EMA tweeted that there was “NO missile threat” to the state. Around the same time, House Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, tweeted: “HAWAII – THIS IS A FALSE ALARM. "The U.S. Pacific Command has detected a missile threat to Hawaii.

Source: Fox News January 13, 2018 18:42 UTC