Falcon Heens Collins, 6, was found hiding in the attic of his home on October 15, 2009 in Ft. Collins, Colorado after his siblings had erroneously reported that he was riding aboard an experimental balloon built by his father. Media helicopters, military aircraft and the FAA all assisted in tracking down the wayward balloon, which landed in a field in Weld County, Colorado.
Dad Richard Heene embraces 6-year-old Falcon after he was found hiding in the garage attic of his home. For hours on Thursday, people in America were gripped by television images of a homemade, silvery balloon careening through the skies, whooshing over fields and trees and yards with a six-year-old boy believed inside.
At home because local schools were closed, Falcon had been climbing into a compartment affixed beneath the helium-filled saucer, prompting angry words from his father.
In this framegrab courtesy of Fox News Colorado first responders gather around a homemade balloon after it landed in a field on October 15, 2009. The helium balloon broke from its tethers at a Fort Collins, Colorado, home sparking a full-scale rescue operation for six-year-old Falcon Heene believed to be aboard the saucer-shaped craft.
Multiple media reports put the craft hurtling through the sky thousands of feet in the air moving at up to 25 miles (40 kilometers) an hour as a captivated nation watched fearing for the fate of its presumed passenger, young. The boy was not found in the balloon, forcing rescuers to continue the search.
For hours on Thursday, people around the country were gripped by television images of a homemade, silvery balloon careening through the skies near here, whooshing over fields and trees and yards with a 6-year-old boy believed inside.
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