Posted on 10/15/2009 11:45:55 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Rescuers are tracking and chasing a "homemade flying saucer" that is in flight with a 6-year-old, by himself, on board.
The incident started this morning in Fort Collins when the boy got into the balloon-like device, which was built by an adult, and it came loose from a tether, according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
The contraption could rise as high as 10,000 feet, the sheriff's office said.
The home-made flying saucer was last seen in flight over Weld County.
The sheriff's office is working the Federal Aviation Administration to determine how to best get the boy down.
The homemade airplane was tethered in Fort Collins when the boy got onboard and it floated away. (Lisa Ecklund via 9News)
The six-year-old boy was by himself on board the hommade aircraft. (Courtesy Lisa Ecklund, via 9News)
The craft could fly as high as 10,000 feet, according to the Weld County Sheriff's Office. (Lisa Ecklund via 9News)
“Shep is an idiot!”
Meanwhile, Jeraldo is still looking for Jimmy Hoffa.
Move along, nothing to see.
My husband walked in and said the radio reports were that he may have fallen out because the door (or entrance) was flapping.
So where’s the child?
Was he somewhere else... or God forbid, fell out?
MSNBC has somebody on the scene on a mobile phone
What next..... was the child there to begin with or was this a hoax......
Hope the child is okay if in fact he was onboard.
I heard that the kid just won the lottery and will be buying coats for everyone in the ghetto.
I think he fell out when it fist happened. I thought that from the beginning. Pray he never got it in, but I fear the news is not going to be good.
Where’s Geraldo!?
exactly!
That would be awful.
But it was amazing how gently the balloon actually did come down..
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OMG wheres the kid then????? Is anyone saying..I am getting on sound on these live feeds.
Shep shouldn’t report on anything cept turtle races
Little brother says he fell out.
If he was IN the balloon for any length of time and then jumped OUT, the balloon would have LAUNCHED UP RAPIDLY.
That would have been much more noticeable than any falling out.
Where’s Geraldo??? ... this is like watching the opening of Al Capone’s vault.
lol....
Well, he isn’t in there.
Reports are that officials a searching an area where something seemed to have fallen out.
Local station confirms that boy was not in balloon (when it landed).
Boy may have fallen out in-flight.
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