Workers at Hawaii Agency That Sent False Missile Alert Were Caught Sleeping, E-Mails Reveal

All three people on duty were asleep, according to a witness

The email was dated Jan. 14, the day after the alert went out. The employee’s name wasn’t released.

The email was included in hundreds of documents released to the media under open-records requests.

The same employee complained that managers failed to heed calls for a way to cancel missile alerts.

A different agency worker mistakenly sent the warning that a ballistic missile was heading to the islands.