false alarm

However, at 06:38 on Friday, he explained the "unknown vessel" was a false alarm.

Over the years, there have been so many instances that felt as if they had to be the beginning of the end, and they all ended up being false alarms.

Some farmworkers, fearful of raids — partly because of false alarms spread on social media — don’t want to risk going to work, fueling a labor shortage, Little said in an interview.

Weiss is about to get his first face-to-face with Spears, but it’s a false alarm: She thinks Weiss is a production assistant.

On the bright side, he said, “there’s no problem of having a false alarm or being wrong,” because the predictions won’t affect people on land.