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    6 year old kid floats away in a experimental balloon[happening now]

    6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon - CNN.com

    (CNN) -- Officials are trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy who climbed into a balloon-like experimental aircraft built by his parents and floated into the sky over eastern Colorado.

    Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw the boy climb into the basket before the balloon took off. Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, Martinez said it's possible the boy had fallen out.

    The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, not unlike a party balloon. The craft was drifting eastward, authorities said.

    The helium balloon was tethered to the boy's family home in Fort Collins, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.

    The aluminum-covered, dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office said. Video Watch the balloon float thousands of feet over Colorado »

    "The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of a crash at all," said Erik Nilsson, Larimer County Emergency Manager, according to CNN affiliate KMGH.

    he Federal Aviation Administration is trying to track the aircraft on radar and has notified the Denver International Airport. Shortly after noon (2 p.m. ET), the balloon was sighted two miles south of Evans.

    CNN meteorologist Chad Myers estimated the wind would keep the vessel moving at 30 mph. Authorities say the craft is about 7,000 feet above the ground.

    Kathy Davis, spokeswoman for the sheriff's department, said a dispatcher received a call Thursday morning, and emergency services personnel were contacted.

    Davis said a balloon company had been contacted and several media outlets offered to help track the balloon with their helicopters.

    The family has described the structure as a a dome-shaped "homemade flying saucer," Larimer County Sheriff's Office Spokeswoman Kathy Davis said.

    "We're trying to determine the best course of action," Davis said. "This is a first and we'll do what we need to do."

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    Maybe its the video, but jesus that thing looks like its hauling ass

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    need to shoot down that balloon man

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    Kid's sibling is full of shit, I guess the 6 year old also inflated the balloon by himself before climbing in and undoing all the moorings and all the sibling did was see him climb in just before it took off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Correction View Post
    Kid's sibling is full of shit, I guess the 6 year old also inflated the balloon by himself before climbing in and undoing all the moorings and all the sibling did was see him climb in just before it took off.
    This is exactly what I was thinking. "Who is the baby of the family NOW!?!"

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    At least its happening now and not when this child is grown up and having kids of his own.

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    Can't stop laughing at Rick Sanchez's comments

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    inb4 "I WANT TO BELIEVE" picture.

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    watched the video and damn that thing really is hauling some ass, at first I thought it was just the heli spinning around it real fast then then they stopped spinning the fucking camera and shown it taking off.

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    It landed and...

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    its like new years countdown

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    So did the Coors cans really activate and change colors in the cold like his science project hypothesized, letting him know that the beer was at optimum deliciousness and ready to drink?

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    NO BOY

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ohemgee View Post
    NO BOY
    I'm not sure yet whether that is hysterical or tragic. I will shit bricks laughing if the kid is still in the house, and was there the entire time.

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    >_> I don't have my TV on at the moment, is this true? lol if so then they wooshed CNN.

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