DENVER — Some services at Denver International Airport were briefly suspended Sunday morning due to a false alarm that a gun had passed security, a spokesperson for the Transportation Security Administration told 9NEWS.
According to the spokesperson, a TSA officer saw an "archived image" that showed a gun and, thinking it was recent, followed protocol for emergencies. This stopped screening at 10:10 a.m. It resumed around six minutes later once TSA realized the image was old, the spokesperson said.
The TSA spokesperson did not have any information about how the false alarm impacted other services at the airport, and a DIA spokesperson did not release any further information to 9NEWS.
A 9NEWS viewer sent in this photo showing a train terminal at DIA Sunday morning:
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