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Re: 6 year old stuck in helium UFO
Anyone see this yet? Is this real?
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21 … etail.html
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 untethered at the boy's home.
The father and son had apparently been working on the aircraft for some time.
Fort Collins police and other authorities have been alerted and Airtracker 7 has launched in an effort to locate the boy.
Airtracker 7 located the craft at 12:35 p.m. at about 8,000 feet in Weld County. It appeared to be slightly tilted. The altitude of the balloon was fluctuating between 7,500 and 8,500 feet.
Skies in the area are partly cloudy and southwest wind speeds are 15 to 20 miles per hour.
"It is believed the device could rise to 10,000 feet," said Eloise Campanella, Larimer County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman.
"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.
Deputies from Larimer and Weld counties are tracking the balloon as it drifts.
FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said the agency has been notified and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar.
The balloon may drift into air traffic control corridors used by Denver International Airport, based on its current location and direction.
Re: 6 year old stuck in helium UFO
Re: 6 year old stuck in helium UFO
They should send a Navy Seal team up there and see if they can grab him in flight. Scary shit. Hopefully God is watching over him and if this ends bad, hopefully he loses consciousness long before it crashes.
I agree that this smells fishy.
Re: 6 year old stuck in helium UFO
Fuck me thats crazy. That thing might pop once it gets to a certain altitude, or it might just keep going to reach a height where you would need a pressure suit to survive, poor kid must be terrified. If this ends well it will be a miracle, fingers crossed though.
To me it sounds like a very badly thought out game gone wrong, how on earth you could risk putting your six year old in such a potentially dangerous situation is beyond me.
- IRISH OS1R1S
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Re: 6 year old stuck in helium UFO
No kid in it when it landed. Hopefully he was never in it.
- mickronson
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Re: 6 year old stuck in helium UFO
it landed and no one was inside.. or so they say.
