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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: don-o

He’s in the woods tryin to remember the lines his Daddy wrote for him.


601 posted on 10/15/2009 12:52:59 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: txhurl

602 posted on 10/15/2009 12:53:26 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Was the balloon high enough to be on radar? Mylar is an excellent reflector so if they had an air traffic control set that used real radar not transponders they should have a track. Look for a rapid jump in altitude, that is where the kids weight dropped out. Do an expanding square search from that point and find the kid/body. If it went straight up and then came slowly down, the kid was probably never in it.
603 posted on 10/15/2009 12:53:37 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
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To: Lady Jag
There is a hatch. It was shown awhile after the landing.

Yes, I saw it afterward.

604 posted on 10/15/2009 12:53:41 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: potlatch

That thing on the bottom was fully enclosed..no way could he have fallen out.


605 posted on 10/15/2009 12:53:47 PM PDT by New Yawk Minute
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To: KeyLargo; the OlLine Rebel

Some people in Laramie County said they saw something fall out. There is a hatch door in the gondola.


606 posted on 10/15/2009 12:53:49 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Double your income. Fire the government)
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To: Thud

It was bobbing too easily in the video to be carrying a 60-70 pound weight. There’d have been some obvious inertia effects where the kid was situated in the plywood platform.
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Might be right on that.


607 posted on 10/15/2009 12:53:56 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Smith is more than an Idiot! Gawd I hate that heshe.


608 posted on 10/15/2009 12:54:13 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: chrisser

That is my hope too: that the kid is hiding somewhere. If parents and all are with the police, maybe he’s at home hiding under the bed wondering where his whole family is.


609 posted on 10/15/2009 12:54:17 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: Osage Orange

No, they write the laws and make themselves exempt.

However, these parents who did “Wife Swap” were responsible for their child and it appears that the child is may be dead.

Charge them with a crime no matter what the condition of the child may be.


610 posted on 10/15/2009 12:54:29 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: HairOfTheDog; All

Why the Crime Scene Tape, Folks??


611 posted on 10/15/2009 12:54:37 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: diamond6

The brother said he was in the balloon when it took off and apparently the sheriff’s investigators were convinced- the cardboard part that should have been attached is missing- as is the boy at present.


612 posted on 10/15/2009 12:54:41 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: AliVeritas
Guy on Hannity (Ron from Long Island), said if he were a kid, he would be hiding, thinking his parents were mad because the balloon took off?

My husband once hid from his aunt who was babysitting him. When he realized how upset she was that he could not be found, he stayed hidden longer! A memorable event in his life. He still feels sorry for having caused her so much grief. It happened over 50 years ago.

613 posted on 10/15/2009 12:55:02 PM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: Palladin

Palldin, I hate to differ with you...but we raised two boys. Our youngest would have definitely pulled something like this. His son, now 6, spent the summer with us. Not only would our grandson have taken off in the balloon, he would have built it first, given the science and supplies. True, we did keep an extra eye on both of them...but still...kids are kids, and some are much more daring than others.


614 posted on 10/15/2009 12:55:06 PM PDT by blu (Graffiti the world, I've seen the writing on the wall...)
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To: GonzoGOP

I seriously doubt the boy was in the balloon. The balloon didn’t even look like it could carry 40-50lbs of weight.


615 posted on 10/15/2009 12:55:08 PM PDT by phalynx
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To: deport

orrr...the kid was driven to a spot...they told him...when the authorities find him...he is to tell them he fell out of a balloon he was never in?

I think this is staged...


616 posted on 10/15/2009 12:55:09 PM PDT by antivenom (Rather be a racist than a comrade)
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To: diamond6
did anyone actually see the boy inside the balloon

Nope. He wasn't inside when it landed/crashed.

Last time anyone saw him, he had crawled inside, then later the thing took off and it was assumed he was still in there.
617 posted on 10/15/2009 12:55:11 PM PDT by chrisser (Tweet not, lest ye a twit be.)
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To: Lady Jag

So they think he jumped out? If he did they are saying he would have had to do that very very early..or it doesnt look good.


618 posted on 10/15/2009 12:55:12 PM PDT by New Yawk Minute
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To: AFPhys

Top marks to the kid if he stuffed a mannequin in it and hid.


619 posted on 10/15/2009 12:55:21 PM PDT by Justa
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To: Lady Jag

That is what I have been waiting to hear. It is the type of thing people would have been staring at.


620 posted on 10/15/2009 12:55:21 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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