This set up is comprised of 7 mylar balloons that took a grown man to 4,000' for ninety minutes.
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)
You mean he never was in the balloon?
BOY HAS BEEN LOCATED AND IS OK
Overblown news coverage?
YES!!!!
Boy found hiding in a box in the attic according to LEO.
There are times I’m real happy to be wrong!
Hiding in a box in his house?
If that is so, they should be charged with filing false report and forced to pay back the costs incurred.
As I said earlier, I remember this family from Wife Swap and “BIZARRE” is a nice way to put it.
Lots of questions to be answered...
Under his bed or in the closet?
They said he was found in a box in the attic above the garage.....
FOUND!
ALIVE!!
Was hiding in a cardboard box in an attic above the garage.
sw
It lost helium during the flight.
Except that it didn’t.
Yeah, who would have expected?
Does anyone have live news coverage online. I lost my sound on fox 31 after hearing he had been found alive.
I had my suspicions, but I knew better to hold my fire.
of course some commenters at Youtube had “CONFIRMED” that the boy was found dead...idiots...
Good news to say the least. Someone is in need of some parental discipline however...
This set up is comprised of 7 mylar balloons that took a grown man to 4,000' for ninety minutes.
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