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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: potlatch

Anytime there are stories like this, ALL the stuff that is being said by the reporters has to be considered to be about 10% useful information, 20% complete distortions, and the rest just ignorant. That is why I KNEW that some of the people were reporting AGL, and some MSL, altitudes. It went up to 7-8,000 MSL—— which was 2-4,000 above the ground of that area.

Apparently they have searched his home now, by the way... no joy.


681 posted on 10/15/2009 1:02:42 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: ninergold3

What is the Wife Swap thing? I just joined this thread.


682 posted on 10/15/2009 1:02:44 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (Best thing about Cash for Clunkers is that 90% of the Obama bumper stickers are now off the road.)
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To: Royal Wulff

Kid: “Little Brother, you untie the rope when I climb inside”

Little Bro: “’kay”

Kid inside, rope untied

Kid: “I have landed on the moon...let’s explore”

Kid climbs out, balloon lifts off and flies away

Kid: “Oh no! Dad’s gonna kill me... I’m running away”


683 posted on 10/15/2009 1:02:47 PM PDT by hattend (Sarah Palin's mob minion - Mob Name: Hatman the Hitman)
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To: fullchroma

Yep, that’s them. Funny how I remember that episode - the husband was WEIRD. Extremely messy and disorganized house. Would yank their kids out of bed at all hours to go ‘chase storms.’ No formal schooling or organized activity.


684 posted on 10/15/2009 1:02:47 PM PDT by AUJenn
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To: New Yawk Minute
Right, I actually knew that as I pushed ‘send’, lol.
He didn't get in by osmosis.....!
685 posted on 10/15/2009 1:02:53 PM PDT by potlatch (Actions Speak Louder Than Words)
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To: Jewbacca

What the heck does this have to do with coconuts?!


686 posted on 10/15/2009 1:02:53 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: TomasUSMC

The door seemed to be pretty well secured during flight. I don’t think the 6YO was ever inside the thing. I suspect the two brothers conspired after untethering the balloon to tell a tall tale.


687 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:04 PM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Since 2009-07-21

I don’t think he was in it either. I think the brother might have released the balloon and knows something about where his little brother is. Just my suspicious mind.


688 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:16 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: Palladin

I have a feeling people in this family are possibly media hounds

If this is a hoax, these people need to pay.


689 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:19 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: tcrlaf

uh ok smarty pants. YOU suggest something


690 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:20 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: tcrlaf

See my post #177...


691 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:26 PM PDT by LaybackLenny (Sarah Palin can see the left's heads explode from her house!)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Where are the parents? Is it known there’s not some other attachment that fell off earlier? Now the news is saying they’re searching within a mile radius of the Fort Collins residence, particularly in the downwind area.


692 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:29 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I have participated in such searches of homes where only after more detailed and successive searches have found the “missing” child hiding under a pile of clothes in a closet.


693 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:29 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Palladin

Parents are described as “storm chasers”. The father has a motorcycle with special equipment to measure magnetic fields as he rides into storms. The wife and children ride behind him in an SUV.

It was an experimental balloon.


694 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:36 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: ETL

Shep Smith is a little queer whose utmost goal in life is to fellate Obama.


695 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:43 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: ETL

Shep needs to go. He is a laughing stock!


696 posted on 10/15/2009 1:03:49 PM PDT by JFC
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To: BuckeyeTexan
The sheriff’s department has searched the house twice and confirmed the boy is not hiding there.

And how many times was the Ramsay house searched looking for JonBenet?

697 posted on 10/15/2009 1:04:00 PM PDT by nina0113
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To: tcrlaf

Falcon is the youngest.

698 posted on 10/15/2009 1:04:05 PM PDT by DCBryan1 ( Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: AUJenn

Why no photos of distraught crying parents/ why no huge search crowds fanning out to search the surrounding land?

Parents incommunicado=tough interrogation by cops.


699 posted on 10/15/2009 1:04:09 PM PDT by Palladin (ACORN is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: marvlus
He's probably too young to think this up, but he ought to pretend he's taking a nap, so his parents can find him like this.

he's not too young to think that up... i am the mother of two boys, and i'm amazed at what they have been able to come up with when all they care about is saving their behinds...

700 posted on 10/15/2009 1:04:14 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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