Homemade Helium Balloon with a 6 YR Old INSIDE on the loose!!...UPDATED

HLN reporting..., there is a 6 yr old boy inside a homeade helium balloon that has come loose & flying free. The 6 yr old climbed in & the tether came loose. The wind seems to have picked up and the balloon is flying very fast. The poor child must be petrified! It is a 20 ft by 5 ft aircraft.

Blooming thing looks like a UFO...Now they think the child might have fallen out...This is horrible

It's also being reported that the bottom compartment isn't attached very well. There is a new conference on HLN right now. What a nightmare! Can you believe this?

Ok, during this news conference, they are staing that the boys name is Falcon. They also state that he IS still inside the balloon. There is a helicopter surrounding the balloon.

Prayers for this child...please let him be safe...

OMG, the way this thing is pitching and yawing..he very well could get thrown out...Bet he is scared s-less...I hope they can rescue this safely..

I just hope to God that it goes down in a non populated area. I've been in a Hot Air Balloon and the scariest part was the landing. There is also no steering these things. Everything depends on the wind. When we landed, we hit a tree, went sideways for a bit. Then when we hit the ground, the basket tipped over after a pretty hard landing. We were all ok, but it was still very scary.

I pray that this ends well for this poor little boy.

I hope this ends safely for the boy. I can't even imagine how terrified he must be.

It's down now.. I don't see boy

It doesn't look like he's in it...No one in Balloon...confirmed

I hope he didn't fall out at a high altitude, but it doesn't look good.

OMG, I can't believe this!

Now it's being reported that the child may not have ever been inside at all.

I certainly hope that is the case. Bet he might just be scared that he's in big trouble...

6-year-old missing after balloon lands in Colorado

(CNN) -- A balloon that was set adrift by a 6-year-old boy from his parents' Colorado home was found empty, CNN affiliate KMGH said, citing a police report.

The balloon landed south of Prospect Springs, near Colorado Springs.

The boy was not inside the helium aircraft when it landed, KMGH reported.

A sibling saw the boy get into the craft Thursday morning. Officials were concerned that the boy may have fallen out of it, an undersheriff said.

Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw Falcon Heene climb into the basket before the balloon took off from his parents' home.

Because the door on the balloon was unlocked, it's possible the boy had fallen out, Martinez said.

The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, similar to a party balloon.

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

The department said the dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high.

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.

A dispatcher received a call Thursday morning, and emergency services personnel were contacted, Larimer County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Kathy Davis said.

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