Article: Boy, 6, feared missing in balloon found at home

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 ...

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