6 Year old takes off in family UFO

[DoubleXL]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33330516/ns/us_news-life/

Has anyone else seen this this morning ?

 

[Scooby_Brew]

I'm watching it right now on msnbc. Terrifying.

 

[DoubleXL]

The live feed on there is going Orfy on that page.

 

[friarjohn]

pellet gun!!!!

 

[Orfy]

got it.
didn't realise it was live.

 

[ibrewit]

Watching it too. WTF

 

[DoubleXL]

They are considering a pellet gun at this time lol
And now there calling it a experimental home flying device.

 

[DoubleXL]

wow 45 mph it looks faster than that

 

[ibrewit]

They think as it gets near the ground some can can grab one of the mooring lines. That should be eventful.

 

[springer]

I think its an optical allusion as the plane is circling the balloon. Did they shoot it to make it deflate?

 

[MultumInParvo]

Huh... Now that is bizarre...

Ever read any of the "F my Life" comments online? I think this would be a good one. "My Thursday was terrible. My six year old son flew away in our experimental balloon aircraft and now they don't even know how to get him down. F my life..."

 

[Scooby_Brew]

I think its an optical allusion as the plane is circling the balloon. Did they shoot it to make it deflate?

No, I think the helium is leaking out off the craft.

 

[DoubleXL]

Yeah nowthere sayin its only moving 15 mph
I dont think they have punctured it on purpose but the helicopter was kinda making it drop when i first turned it on.

The nationla guard it on there way so it all good now lol

 

[MultumInParvo]

He's down to 500 feet. Thats good news!

 

[Orfy]

it starting to slow in linear speed

although it's at 5000ft above sea level It's only around 500 ft above the ground.
It'll probably be down in 40 minutes or so

 

[Orfy]

it's landed softly.

 

[MultumInParvo]

its down! now

 

[jamesnsw]

he's on the ground!

DAMN I knew I shouldn't have corrected my typos...

 

[ibrewit]

Wow! a guy did just grab a line as it hit the ground.

 

[springer]

Why haven't they taken the kid out?

 

[Walker]

and it's grounded....

but where's the KID!?

 

[Scooby_Brew]

omg it landed!

 

[DoubleXL]

its a lot smaller than what i was thinking it was

 

[MultumInParvo]

no kid in it?

 

[Bobby_M]

I think it was a big hoax.... no kid inside.

 

[springer]

Their saying there is no one inside ..

 

[Scooby_Brew]

nobody in the compartament?

 

[DoubleXL]

yeah now there sayin no one was in it

1+ Bobby Hoax

 

[MultumInParvo]

Wow. That is just crazy. Think of all the time and effort the paramedics and Police put in for a stupid balloon.

 

[Walker]

well, they said no onw is in it now, but they never said no one was in it to begin with.

I missed the beginning. By the time I tuned in it was already on the ground.

 

[MultumInParvo]

So as of now no one know where the kid is, huh? The dad thought he was in the balloon, but he wasn't. So where is he?

 

[jamesnsw]

I'm guessing the kid untethered it, got freaked out that he would get in trouble, and hid.

 

[Walker]

I'm guessing the kid untethered it, got freaked out that he would get in trouble, and hid.

sounds very reasonable....

 

[jonp9576]

or he fell out during the early part of the trip

 

[ibrewit]

Hope he's hiding and didn't fall out before the coverage started.

 

[springer]

the police searched the home as it began

 

[dataz722]

My theory.

There is tons and tons of money in grants and contracts with new expirmental aircrafts but you need to prove they work. This thing is an experiement and the guy didn't want to be the test dummy. The FAA won't just let you let this thing go to see what happens. Well now they just proved on national television that it works.

 

[MultumInParvo]

or he fell out during the early part of the trip

Lets hope not. That would be terrible. I am going to go with the scared hiding kid theory right now.

 

[MultumInParvo]

My theory.

There is tons and tons of money in grants and contracts with new expirmental aircrafts but you need to prove they work. This thing is an experiement and the guy didn't want to be the test dummy. The FAA won't just let you let this thing go to see what happens. Well now they just proved on national television that it works.

That helium is less dense than 'air'? I don't see what could of possibly been proven. Its more basic than even a weather balloon.

 

[springer]

The basket is cardboard so they are saying . I hope the kid let the thing go and got scared and is hiding somewhere