People across the world watched Thursday as a homemade balloon soared 7,000 feet over eastern Colorado after a 6-year-old boy, thought to be inside, set it loose from his parents' home.

But the fate of the boy, identified as Falcon Heene, was unclear after the balloon landed near Keenesburg -- about 60 miles by road from Fort Collins -- at 1:35 p.m. (3:35 p.m. ET). The balloon was in the air for more than an hour and a half.

A sibling said he saw the boy get into the craft Thursday morning, raising concerns that the boy may have fallen out of it, authorities said.

"At this point, we are thinking that he did not fall out of the balloon and is somewhere on the ground," Larimer County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said. "The basket itself was not breached. It does not look like he fell out of it, but again, this is all conjecture."

Campanella said authorities are searching the neighborhood for the boy.

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

About 30mins past midnight it was reported that the boy was found safe and well hiding in the garage, I bet his pocket money will be short this week!

I think his pocket money was going to be doubled but after the gaff he made on tv it may well be reduced! When asked why he hid the boy said he did it because his parents asked to hide for the show! When his dad was questioned about it he couldnt come up with a decent answer and started to twist it! There is no doubt that this was just a publicity stunt by the family to get media attention for their balloon flight! They should be charged with wastingd police and other peoples time! It is shocking what they have clearly done!

This families crazy, see them on wife swap and also chasing storms