Six Year Old Boy Missing from Balloon

2009 October 15
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by jaehwan

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There is an interesting, ongoing story right now about a 6 year old boy who apparently jumped onto a large mylar homemade helium balloon and flew away from his house.  People around the world were tracking the balloon as it flew overhead, but when it landed, the boy was not inside.  A sibling said that he had seen the boy, Falcon Heene, step into the balloon, but authorities are hoping that they will be able to find him around the neighborhood.

The Heene family was featured earlier this year on Wife Swap.  The mother is Japanese.

Heene family

Heene family

I hope everything turns out okay and that they find him.

Edit: They found him!!!  Alive!!!

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

Falcon Heene was found in a box in the attic of his family’s Fort Collins home, according to authorities.

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2009 October 15

[...] I thought it raised some interesting parenting questions. So you’ve all heard about the boy who everyone thought was in the runaway balloon–authorities were scrambling in fear that a six year old boy was in a helium balloon that he [...]

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