CNN: 6-Year-Old Colorado Boy Found Alive (In Attic) After Setting Loose Balloon [View All]

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Source: CNN / KUSA-9 News

6-Year-Old Colorado Boy Found Alive After Setting Loose Balloon

(CNN) -- The 6-year-old Colorado boy who is believed to have set adrift a helium balloon Thursday, prompting ground and air searches, has been found alive, authorities said.

The balloon landed south of Prospect Springs, Colorado, on Thursday afternoon.

He was found in a box in the attic at his family's Fort Collins home, according to authorities.

A sibling said he saw the boy, identified as Falcon Heene, get into the craft Thursday morning, authorities said.

But the boy was not inside the craft when it made a soft landing near Keenesburg, about 60 miles from its starting point in Fort Collins, at 1:35 p.m. (3:35 p.m. ET).

People across the world watched Thursday as the homemade helium balloon soared 7,000 feet over eastern Colorado for more than an hour and a half.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html

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Witness says object fell from Colorado aircraft

CANWEST NEWS SERVICEOCTOBER 15, 2009 4:44 PM

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A deputy with a Colorado sheriff's department saw something fall out of an experimental balloon that was believed to have carried away a six-year-old boy, authorities said Thursday as the search for the missing child continued.



Weld County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Margie Martinez said one of their deputies, who was following the balloon, noticed something fall out during its flight through the Colorado skies at altitudes reaching 2,100 metres.
Photograph by: Screen grab, CNN


Authorities: No 'basket' was on aircraft

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LARIMER COUNTY - While authorities search for a 6-year-old boy who was believed to be inside an experimental aircraft when it lifted off, investigators now say there was no basket on the balloon when it took off from his Fort Collins home.


CNN Reporter says that they were following live feed and "nothing ever fell from that balloon."