Did you note the lack of exigency on the part of the police in getting into the chamber of the balloon? The cops were just standing around. There was a guy with a shovel cutting holes in the periphery. But no one was trying to rapidly enter the container where the boy would have been. Seemed like they knew there was noone in their prior to touchdown.
Yes, I did think they acted very weird. I couldn’t figure it out. The almost acted afraid of it. Perhaps they were waiting for the news feed to be cut. Weird. Unless they already had reports of an falling object from it. Still, strange indeed.
On MSNBC they showed this thing pretty close-up. It looked as if the whole thing was covered with the mylar, and that there was no “door” or any other place that the kid could have gotten in.
Obviously, the dad that constructed this knew that, and one would assume that he told the authorities that there was no way that the kid was riding in what was left in the sky being photographed. The only way the kid would be riding would be in another attached “box” that they are talking about falling off.
I’m not sure why they even bothered tracking the balloon, as they would have had to know from the parents that there was no passenger compartment remaining.