The Weld County Sheriff’s deputy thought he saw something fall in the area around County Road 41 and County Road 28. He believes it came from the bottom of the aircraft.
There is now a very large search in the area, moving through high grass.
9NEWS has a digital picture of the balloon showing some sort of black object underneath it. Experts we talked to do not think the speck is a bird or something on the camera lens.
Police believe the boy, Falcon Heene, was inside the box, which the family called a battery compartment, when the aircraft lifted off around 11 a.m.
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I just can’t even imigine what this family is going through.
Battery compartment?