NASA's Kennedy Space Center is under an emergency lockdown due to "an unknown event happening at the NASA Headquarters building," per a hastily written email KSC's safety chief sent to employees just now. Staff urged to shelter in place, all gates to the center are closed.
Per spokesperson, the center's security force evacuated KSC's administrative building after receiving a "telephone threat." There doesn't seem to be any threat to personnel now and the evacuation/shelter order has just been lifted
Full statement from KSC news chief Patti Bielling. "Kennedy takes all threats seriously and is investigating the incident." 
At the same time, I'm hearing NASA headquarters in Washington DC received a false alarm of an active shooter, prompting a similar shelter-in-place order that has since been cleared. Unclear whether this was the same phone threat that triggered the KSC lockdown
Full statement from a spokesperson at NASA's DC headquarters: NASA is "investigating how the alarm was triggered."
The active shooter false alarm at NASA HQ is separate from the telephone threat to Kennedy; two unrelated incidents, spokesperson confirms.
Bielling, KSC spokeswoman, says in a new statement that the two incidents were related — After the active shooter false alarm in DC, "a concerned citizen, thinking they were notifying the appropriate office, reported an active shooter to the security forces at [KSC] in Florida"
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