6-Year-Old Boy Floats Away In Balloon

Update 4: This has been a bizarre story on so many levels... just totally out-to-lunch...

Update 3: Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Thu, October 15, 2009 -- 6:11 PM ET
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Boy Thought Missing in Balloon Is Found Alive at Home

A 6-year-old boy thought to be inside a homemade helium
balloon that floated over Colorado for over two hours on
Thursday has been found alive at his home, a sheriff's deputy
said.

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UPDATE 2: BOY TRAPPED IN FLYING BALLOON; At 3:39 KMGH/KUSA report no one is inside the balloon. "We know the balloon is down, and there's nobody in it. Now we wait to find out. What a day this has been" - Shepard Smith. "I have sat in front of this television and watched things that I never dreamed were possible, and there is this." - Shepard Smith This afternoon, the cablers took live feeds from Ft. Collins, Colorado of a 6...
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/boy_trapped_in_flying_balloon_140318.asp

UPDATE: From https://twitter.com/MajoratWH

In the end, atmosphere and lack of suitable air-worthiness brought balloon back down as all available personnel watched. Next: where is boy?4 minutes ago from web

Denver station KMGH reports basket of balloon is empty. Every sign of activity/inactivity is that balloon basket is empty.7 minutes ago from web

The rescue personnel are moving very slowly now. No outward sense of urgency. No medical personnel rushing to basket.8 minutes ago from web

Rescue personnel deflating the balloon, striking it from outside to release gases inside, frantically trying to turn basket over.10 minutes ago from web

Rescue personnel all around, securing balloon with ropes...no sign of child yet. very uncertain situation. terrifying.11 minutes ago from web

Balloon now down....lgently...nothing broken on the outside frame of basket...ambulance races into view, personnel surrounding it.12 minutes ago from web

Fox still very careful on boy in balloon - reporting boy "believed" to be inside. Balloon appears to be getting much closer to ground.13 minutes ago from web

Colorado Nat Guard deploys 2 helos from Buckley AFB in Aurora. A UH-58 Kiowa up at 1230 pm MDT & is tracking balloon. A UH-60 in air, too.19 minutes ago from web

To say I am - that we all are - wishing them the best is a great, almost inconceivably trivial, understatement.35 minutes ago from web

This one is a massive challenge for all aviation, emergency and weather types....coordination, creativity, sense of calm crucial.36 minutes ago from web

Of all emergency contingencies, I doubt anyone anywhere has a file: Rescue procedures for small boy in silver experimental balloon.37 minutes ago from web

Frantic Search Under Way To Rescue Boy

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A 6-year-old boy is floating over northeastern Colorado in a homebuilt balloon and authorities are racing to try and rescue him.
The balloon, in the shape of a flying saucer is covered in foil and filled with helium. It has a compartment for a passenger underneath. It lifted the boy into the air near Fort Collins Thursday morning after the balloon became unhooked at the boy's home.

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