We were in Maui at that moment and the family took a few minutes to gather to a common location.
As soon as we were all together my first comment was, “This is Bull!”
“Kim has no targeting, no re-entry vehicle, and we would have shot it down.”
Much more likely an errant message.
Of course the family preferred to believe the god of their smart phone, than listen to me.
They weren’t comforted when I later said it would have been here already, before the error was publicly acknowledged.
Who knows what they think of my dismissive attitude now, but I’m happy to have introduced some sanity amid the panic.
The Twilight Zone episode, “The Shelter” came to mind, I wonder if anyone who knew if their neighbor had a shelter suddenly pretended to be their best pal?
Even if there was a missile, it would have been aimed at Oahu, not Maui.