6 year old boy MISSING after soaring in balloon has been found alive!

What the balloon is, its a toy. NOT made to carry anyone or anything. NOT A HOT AIR BALLOON. What you are is a fool. You will fall for anything anyone tells you.Then you jump to thousands of conclusions through a million hypotheticals based on false information. Your inability to use common sense dumbfounds me. I suspect i am not the first to tell you to close your mouth, take a deep breath, and let someone else do the thinking. You take a snowball of misinformation and turn it into an avalanche. And i am SURE you have many excuses. SShhhhh...... its not your fault.

One thing about this sort of story that really galls me sometimes. Publish a story about a young blond woman or a kid missing in an elaborate way. Note * Natalie Holloway and Now Falcon. No one can deny these stories are scary, and sadly sometimes terribly tragic.

However, kids go missing many times daily, good people die or are killed in all sorts of heinous ways, but it doesn't make National news because it doesn't have a "cool" component to it.

Disclaimer: No, Im not making light of anyone's tragedies, nor do I intend to. I cant even stand to trap a mouse, so human suffering is definitely not something Ihave a stomach for.
This is just for the memory of those whose tragic deaths didn't make the news.

And, yes Im really glad the boy didn't get hurt. If the balloon thing is a hoax, then Dad will have to talk to the po po.

Ummmmm, it has a passenger compartment below, no?, and would have been difficult for 6 yr old to untie from said compartment, no?

Semantics.

If it is called a wing-ding-doo-Australopithecus africanus. It really doesnt matter. Jumping or falling out are jumping or falling out, whether conventional gondola, or a Ford Pinto tied to the bottom.

Really wild coinkidink that he would get inside just before it tears free from its tether....so what it didnt do while no weight was in it, it did with the weight of a 6yr old boy inside.

Methinks somethings rotten in the State of Colorado.
I will be interested in hearing what the investigation turns up.

I think whoever wrote the article also writes our local Chinese Restaurant's menu, see: The Heene family who created the balloon was recently on the television reality show "Wife Swap" and are being having an unusual lifestyle. Nothing against the restaurant, but they have great "engrish" on the menu and a couple of items have unintentionally vulgar names :)

I try never to "are being having an unusual lifestyle." It leads to unconventional gondolas with mystical powers.

That video is very funny and creative. But I think what we should do is freak out completely and loudly interrupt speeches while carrying no socialism signs, and scream at the top of our lungs that this is what happens when gays marry. Oh yes, all this while carrying firearms. Then interrupting again.

Ooops, the part I left out while typing away was, his brother sounds like all kids. Over the top exaggeration and wanting to tell a dramatic story. Just like when something dramatic happens near a crowd. You usually will find that almost every soul saw every bit of it. The desire to be part of something big. Getting snowed in by a blizzard sounds like a fun sort of thing until it happens, and you have to deal with it.

In 7th grade woodshop, I nicked my finger on the table saw. The other kid who was working with me went yelling to the teacher that I had cut my hand off. It wasnt even from the blade, it was a burr on the table portion (actually the part called the fence). Didn't even need stitches.

Does that make either of them a bad kid? Heck no, it makes them kids. Inattentive parent(s)?, perhaps, hard to know. How well can a little kid keep a secret? I am 45, and in the last year Ive revealed to my Mom a number of silly or troublemaking things that I had done as a child. Some I still wouldn't tell because she would become frightened about an old event, or angry, but likely both :) Bad Kid? Nah, country kid.

The moment I heard this I told my son, that kid ran away scared. How did I know this? The balloon was tethered, and though its a little bit surprising he was able to loose the knots, A 6 yr old wouldnt be able to reach over the gondola (basket) and still be able to untie it, if he would be able to even reach it. #2 he wasnt in the basket when they found the balloon, and nowhere at the site. Kids can do outright dumb things sometimes, but had he be frightened enough to consider jumping out, he would have made that attempt before it climbed too much, but jumping out is incredibly unlikely. I took dumb risks as a youngster, as most all do, but I wouldnt have climbed to the roof of our house, let alone jump off it.

In the very off chance he had been in the balloon, it would have been him flying through the air yelling "help" until it came to rest somewhere. And extrapolating further, had he rode it out, he would have probably been every bit as scared of being lost as he would have by the height.

Now...that's all easy for me to say since it wasnt my son, I would have been scared of the worst too, but from the outside, I never thought he was in the balloon.

If it is a hoax, the family should have to pay for scrambling the defense planes and helicopters. The parents are pieces of shit.

I think that this family is crazy ... I saw them on wife swap and thought so then ... here in Kansas if I was to wake my children up in the middle of the night to chase a tornado I would loose custody of my kids ... these guys not only get away with this type of behavior but now probably cost the state of CO a mill. easy on this stunt .... glad the little guy is ok ... but the parents need to be evaluated ... sorry

This is suspiciously looking like a stunt or hoax. The family are attention whores and thrill seekers.

They were on that reality tv show "wife swap", and they are storm chasers and general daredevils. With this "experimental balloon" fiasco, all of the strange chain of events took place: their inflated balloon was mysteriously untethered, one child claimed the other child was in the balloon while the other child was actually hiding in a box on the property.

At minimum, they were extremely negligent with their engineering project's safety planning and in fact it was not safe, and they didn't manage or track their children, either.

They should get the bill for all the local, state and federal expenses for the day.

If it was a hoax we'll find out, how long can a 6 year old hold on to a lie???

We've become so skeptical.... lets just be thankful the kid didn't "soar" up in that thing.

Let's try and quit criticizing everything.

i was performing standby operations with a guy from Denver who was constantly being updated as this event unfolded today. Was pretty crazy. We had thought the kid had fallen out until they found out he was in the attic the whole time.

THIS STORY IS FALSE!!!! IM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOUR MISLEADING HEADLINE CURRENT!!!!!! LETS JUST MAKE SHIT UP WHY DON'T WE...... KID NEVER "SOARED" OVER ANYTHING......IF I WANTED TRASH, I WOULD GO TO FOX NEWS WEBSITE

lol is he asian?

I am looking for plans for dad's balloon. Unfortunately his website (where one might expect to find such plans) has been wiped clean...

The question is, was there ever a space inside a balloon filled with somewhat pressurized helium for the boy to crawl in? If he would have found such an opening the balloon would have deflated and never flown.

In that case the only viable option was for there to be a separate compartment built into the balloon meant to be for passengers or equipment. That is certainly possible...

The source link says nothing of the kid being alive.

from another angle, you can't just release a balloon like that for scientific purposes without getting the proper permits and what not because it is a hazard to planes. Maybe the dad couldn't get the permits...

So you say the kid did it, get massive coverage for your science project, get to "accidentally" release the balloon you couldn't get permits for and then find the kid and laugh it all off...

I mean he obviously had the balloon gassed up and ready for launch. The balloon apparently didn't hold gas very well so he music have been planning to launch it today anyway. Did he have the necessary permits?

Also, it was a helium balloon and it had to be sealed well enough to hold the pressurized helium. So how would the kid have gotten into it if not before the gas was put in? I doubt it had a separate passenger area.

I am sure the police will be talking to Falcon...

What a convenient way for a not so well known family to become national spotlight in a day. . . Richard Heene thinks to himself: "I can launch my crazy ufo balloon to get everyone to watch my awesome youtube videos and check out my super website if I just say my son was in the balloon!"

Hmmm, dad got huge publicity for his amateur science projects, kid safely stashed in the Attic...

everyone is freaking out about him being "missing" while that boy probably had the absolute time of his life up there!

Now the kid will be killed, by mom and dad.

He was in garage attic

Kid lives !

He is alive and at home! Thank god

They are now saying he was never in the craft.
I kinda thought he was hiding somewhere out of fear of being punished for releasing the thing...................

Wow, here's what my friend said about this story: "heh, the news coverage of balloon boy is making me think of all the things that's gotten FC on the national news in the past, including Debbie Duz Donuts.... if you remember that, you're old."

http://lostfortcollins.com/2009/01/30/debbie-duz-donuts/

Remember the story of the boy in the well in 12 Monkeys?

I hope this ends like that.

I have my fingers crossed.

Next-good news?

I can't believe this happened in Fort Collins!!!

wow..that is all i can say right now

Watch them find the boy sleeping on his bed.

It's 2000 cubic feet it is big enough!!! OMG

He was never in it to small to lift a 65# boy

Clearly the whole story has yet to be released, but I cannot imagine the explanation for letting a child climb onto something with some much dangerous potential.

Sad....