Who was Trapped In A Homemade Helium Balloon Over Denver?”
Television images showed the silver balloon floating above Colorado at about 6,000 feet (1,830 metres) as authorities were trying to find a way to land the craft safely.A Larimer County Sheriff’s spokesman confirmed that the boy was inside the balloon, which she described as “a homemade helium balloon made to look like a UFO.” Reports said the boy got into the device, which it described as a “home-made flying saucer” at his family’s home in Fort Collins and that it then came loose from its tether. The aircraft, which can reportedly reach altitudes of 10,000 feet (3,048 metres), was last spotted flying over nearby Weld County. Kathy Davis, spokesman for the sheriff’s office. told CNN: “Our office received a call this morning and our emergency service on patrol responded to a (Fort Collins) address on reports of a home-made flying saucer built by an adult male that came loose from its tether and took off, flying in an easterly direction. “Apparently a six-year-old boy had climbed into th
A Six-Year-Old Is Trapped In A Homemade Helium Balloon Over Denver Father-son projects are quite the American tradition. Everything from pine-box derby racers, to bike repairs, to experimental aircraft it seems. Wait what?The Denver Channel reports that 12:35 pm MDT today, authorities were tracking a 6-year-old boy at about 8,000 feet over Fort Collins, Colorado. Apparently the boy and his father had been building a “flying saucer covered in foil and filled with helium” for quite a while now.
