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Article: Boy, 6, feared missing in balloon found at home
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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FORT COLLINS - "He's been located! He's alive! He's at the
house!"
Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden interrupted a media update in
Fort Collins to announce that the 6-year-old boy thought to be
missing in a balloon craft has been found alive at his home.
"Apparently, he's been there the whole time," Alderden said.
"Hiding in a box a cardboard box, in an attic above the garage."
The sheriff indicated he did not think Falcon Heene's parents
knew the boy was there: "They were besides themselves with worry,"
he said.
Falcon's 9-year-old brother told investigators and his parents,
Richard and Mayumi Heene, that Falcon was in the balloon when it
went up.
Officials had searched the home and ...