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Fort Collins boy in loose aircraft (6 yr old boy found hiding at home not in balloon)
Denver Post ^ | October 15, 2009 | Kieran Nicholson

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)


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: balloon; balloonboy; denver; faa; falconheene; jiffypop; missing
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To: Jazz1968

“Shep is an idiot!”

Meanwhile, Jeraldo is still looking for Jimmy Hoffa.


461 posted on 10/15/2009 12:41:57 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A member of the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution.)
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To: spectre

Move along, nothing to see.


462 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:02 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (President Milli Vanilli wins a NOBEL! Palin/Cheney 2012)
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To: DCBryan1

My husband walked in and said the radio reports were that he may have fallen out because the door (or entrance) was flapping.


463 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:03 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: spectre

So where’s the child?

Was he somewhere else... or God forbid, fell out?


464 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:04 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Lord forgive me... we know he's anti-Christ. The pride and chaos get him the pit again.)
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To: Mmogamer

MSNBC has somebody on the scene on a mobile phone


465 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:06 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: PhiKapMom

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.


466 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:06 PM PDT by deport
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To: Overtaxed Patriot

I heard that the kid just won the lottery and will be buying coats for everyone in the ghetto.


467 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:07 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: spectre

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.


468 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:14 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: Arec Barrwin

Where’s Geraldo!?


469 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:14 PM PDT by 80skid
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To: rintense

exactly!


470 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:20 PM PDT by angcat ("GO YANKEES")
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To: GeronL

That would be awful.


471 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:22 PM PDT by Sparko (Barack Hussein Obama: Mmm, mmm, mmm... Peace Prize. Now no one is equal to Me in My Sight.)
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To: rintense
I don't know,.I pray the child is alive.

But it was amazing how gently the balloon actually did come down..

sw

472 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:34 PM PDT by spectre (spectre's wife)
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To: Cinnamontea

OMG wheres the kid then????? Is anyone saying..I am getting on sound on these live feeds.


473 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:35 PM PDT by New Yawk Minute
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To: Never on my watch

Shep shouldn’t report on anything cept turtle races


474 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:44 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: rintense

Little brother says he fell out.


475 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:51 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (President Milli Vanilli wins a NOBEL! Palin/Cheney 2012)
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To: crusty old prospector

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.


476 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:52 PM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Where’s Geraldo??? ... this is like watching the opening of Al Capone’s vault.


477 posted on 10/15/2009 12:42:58 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Sloth

lol....


478 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:05 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: mojitojoe

Well, he isn’t in there.


479 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:08 PM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: Arec Barrwin

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.


480 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:12 PM PDT by TomGuy
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