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)
If it was a hoax, then it’s a crime. If the boy is dead, then a full investigation will be held.
Always preserve a potential crime scene, even if you aren’t sure an acutal crime was committed. You can’t get it back.
Per Fox (switching back and forth with MSNBC- they’re covering this pretty well) the area in Laramie County where people thought they saw something fall out is being searched and so far nothing has been found..
Maybe, maybe not. I’m skeptical of anything that has anything to do with anyone associated with any reality television show. Normal, well-adjusted people just don’t volunteer themselves to be a part of such freak shows.
If this is real, my heart goes out to them. But I can’t get past my doubts right now.
you have a wireless keyboard?
The sheriff’s department has searched the house twice and confirmed the boy is not hiding there. They are interviewing the brother to see if he is covering for the boy.
I'm guessing that there's more than a few people at the nearby Air Force Academy that could figure that out very quickly.
...finger prints to determine if the kid was ever inside........
European, as African are not migratory.
LOL!
It will also get colder and the gas being used for lift will get colder and provide less lift.
Dictionary: gon·do·la (gŏn'dl-ə, gŏn-dō'lə)
3. A basket, enclosure, or instrument sling suspended from and carried aloft by a balloon.
You know, you sound like the posters a while back who were claiming the murder of Neda was a hoax
Photo here: http://abc.go.com/shows/wife-swap/episode-guide/heenemartel/132697
The Heene family from Colorado live life on the edge. Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard’s theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting “Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!” into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his ‘ninja wife’; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help.
Funny that...
So why does this remind me of an episode of “LASSIE”???
BTW (all) isn’t Shepard Smith about the biggest a-hole on television? He just has-to try to get a laugh no matter how serious the story.
I had 4 boys, keeping your eye on a 6 year old is like nailing jello to the wall....
BTW, that's LarimER county in CO. Laramie county is Cheyenne, WY.
I really should be doing something constructive though. I have painting to do, carpets to clean, lunch to eat, cats to feed, dogs to water...
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