Boy trapped in homemade balloon...

[bigdaddy]

Someone supposedly saw something fall from the UFO and the police are going to look.

The only chance now is if the other kid is lying or wrong about the kid being in it, but I doubt that now because where is the kid hiding? A barn?

 

[Jadzia]

My instincts say he wasn't in the balloon. More likely he let it loose and then ran off to hide. For a small child to be able to untether it whilst sitting in it, would say something about how/where it was tethered. In my imagination that looks unlikely.

 

[RoJoHen]

My instincts say he wasn't in the balloon. More likely he let it loose and then ran off to hide. For a small child to be able to untether it whilst sitting in it, would say something about how/where it was tethered. In my imagination that looks unlikely.

Perhaps. This whole story is very bizarre.

 

[Kestra]

I haven't been following the story the entire time. Were people watching the balloon from the time it took off, consistently? How did it travel? Because it's quite possible for the boy to fall out unobserved under certain circumstances. I really hope that's not the case, though.

 

[SPOCKED]

Another clever way for the current Administration to divert the attention of the US Public.

Well, it would be an interesting way of the current administration to divert attention, since CNN broke away from a live presidential speech to cover this story.

See...SEE?!?!?!?

You may be on to something!

So it looks like the kid was never aboard. Rough calculation from CNN say not very likely this amount of helium could even lift 50/60 pounds, thank the godz!

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm going to be very upset if the kid was in his room the whole time.

 

[John Picard]

^, Actually not really. The size and glare of a six year old may go un-noticed even if it occured right next to you.

The brain may simply block it out, saying to itself, thats not right and not register it.

I'm mostly thinking of a body crashing into the ground. I mean, sure, if nobody's around to see it happen, it would be hard to find. But you have to think that a lot of people are watching this and looking out for the kid.

At this point, if he did fall, he's pretty damn dead (and possibly not even recognizable). This is just nuts.

Well recongnizable until the cyotes come, and thats the grime reality.

I hope for everyone that he is just hidding, but who knows maybe he wanted to escape from his family and the plan went bad.

As a father this qoute makes me mad : "Police say the family's two boys were playing outside with the rest of the family inside the house. One son watched his little brother go inside the compartment and watched it take off."

How about you tell me hes un-mouring the damn thing before he gets in if your watching it. Now the family is wrecked and the other brother has to live with the fact we watched as his brother died.

How about it probably took him a minute to realize that's what his brother was doing and then it dawned on him to tell the parents. Depending on their age, childrens' reasoning abilities are somewhat slow in processing information before they act upon it.

 

[Thena]

A balloon expert commenting on CNN says that based on the way the balloon was listing in the video, he doesn't believe anyone was in it to begin with.

 

[SPOCKED]

I'm going to be very upset if the kid was in his room the whole time.

Upset??? Seems to me that's EXACTLY where we want to find him - preferably under his bed safe and sound.

 

[gh4chiefs]

My instincts say he wasn't in the balloon. More likely he let it loose and then ran off to hide. For a small child to be able to untether it whilst sitting in it, would say something about how/where it was tethered. In my imagination that looks unlikely.

that's where I'm coming down on this. Two kids, one 6 and the one a little older. And the older one claims the 6 year got in and flew off. It certainly wouldn't be the first time in history when a kid lied about something.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I'm going to be very upset if the kid was in his room the whole time.

He'd be probably thinking about all the chaos he'd just caused. Assuming of course he never left the ground in the first place - if the parents found out this is what really happened, then someone's going to be grounded for a while (pun definitely NOT intended).

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm going to be very upset if the kid was in his room the whole time.

Upset??? Seems to me that's EXACTLY where we want to find him - preferably under his bed safe and sound.

I definitely want him to be safe and sound, don't get me wrong. I just kind of want him to be some evil mastermind who set everybody up. I mean, that would be pretty damn impressive for a 6-year old.

He's been hiding in his underground lair that just happened to be built directly underneath where they were building the balloon.

 

[Capn Flukie]

The way they were cutting the balloon open makes me think it was sealed up pretty good, so that he was never able to unmoor it and get inside. He's probably hiding somewhere and when he gets good and hungry will come out.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I'm going to be very upset if the kid was in his room the whole time.

Think before you type. Please.

 

[John Picard]

Were it me in that situation, I would have been spanked whether or not it was a safe landing or been found hiding in the basement.

 

[bigdaddy]

Well, it would be an interesting way of the current administration to divert attention, since CNN broke away from a live presidential speech to cover this story.

See...SEE?!?!?!?

You may be on to something!

So it looks like the kid was never aboard. Rough calculation from CNN say not very likely this amount of helium could even lift 50/60 pounds, thank the godz!

I never trust those "experts". A guy once had a lawn chair took off and that wasn't supposed to be possible either.

Some police person is saying that they do not believe the kid was ever on it and that the whole story is bullshit created by the family. OK I made the second part, but the first part si true.

 

[Squiggy]

Apparently the only witness to him being in the balloon is either his 8 or 11 year old brother.

 

[Roshi]

Darwin Award material...

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm going to be very upset if the kid was in his room the whole time.

Think before you type. Please.

Yeah, I definitely should have worded that differently.

 

[gh4chiefs]

Well I'm just realizing that I'm watching WAY too many TV cops shows because I can't help but be suspicious of the kid who claims he saw him get in. All kinds of crazy theories are rolling around in my head right now. Gotta stop watching CSI.