CNN BreakingNews:Police say no one was found inside a balloon that was thought to be carrying a 6-year-old boy (266 hits)
(CNN) -- People across the world watched Thursday as a homemade balloon soared 7,000 feet over eastern Colorado after a 6-year-old boy, thought to be inside, set it loose from his parents' home. The balloon landed south of Prospect Springs, Colorado, on Thursday afternoon. But the fate of the boy, identified as Falcon Heene, was unclear after the balloon landed near Keenesburg -- about 60 miles by road from Fort Collins -- at 1:35 p.m. (3:35 p.m. ET). The balloon was in the air for more than an hour and a half.
A sibling said he saw the boy get into the craft Thursday morning, raising concerns that the boy may have fallen out of it, authorities said. "At this point, we are thinking that he did not fall out of the balloon and is somewhere on the ground," Larimer County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said. "The basket itself was not breached. It does not look like he fell out of it, but again, this is all conjecture." http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado....
[ My heart and prayers to the family for the total safety of this child. ]
AP - A 6-year-old Colorado boy feared to have floated off in a helium balloon has been found safe at his home, hiding in a cardboard box in the garage attic. Sheriff Jim Alderman turned to reporters during a news conference and held thumbs up and said, "He's at the house." Alderden said an investigator on the scene saw the boy and he was fine. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091015/...
Sheriff: Boy-in-balloon was hoax, charges expected (AP) AP - The story that a little boy had floated away in a giant helium balloon was a hoax concocted to land a reality television show, authorities said Sunday, and the boy's parents will likely face felony charges. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091018/... Sunday, October 18th 2009 at 8:54PM
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CNN Breaking News--BreakingNews@mail.cnn.com -- 'Balloon boy' dad Richard Heene pleads guilty to felony charge of attempting to influence a public servant.
