Here is actual audio from one radio station that day.
Here is actual audio from one radio station that day.
In the scramble at NORAD to cancel the inadvertent EAN, they sent a cancel down the line, but it too contained the "activate" code word again, "hatefulness." Because "hatefulness" wasn't the correct code word to cancel the EAN, they then had to send a second cancel message with the correct code word, "impish."
Ten beeps and not seven trumpets. How biblical. (Inaccurate, but biblical.)