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FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A 6-year-old boy is floating over northeastern Colorado in a homebuilt balloon and authorities are racing to try and rescue him.

The balloon, in the shape of a flying saucer is covered in foil and filled with helium. It has a compartment for a passenger underneath. It lifted the boy into the air near Fort Collins Thursday morning after the balloon became untethered at the boy's home.

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bAD NEWS ..BALLOON LANDS WITHOUT BOY...

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6-year-old missing after balloon lands in Colorado

• <LI class=cnnHiliteHeader _extended="true">Story Highlights <LI _extended="true">NEW: Boy may have fallen out because door on balloon was unlocked <LI _extended="true">Officials were chasing homemade aircraft over eastern Colorado
• Boy's family was building aircraft at home in Fort Collins

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(CNN) -- A runaway balloon has touched down in Colorado after a 6-year-old boy untied it from his family home in Fort Collins.
The dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high, Larimer County Sheriff's Office says.





The boy was not inside the helium aircraft when it landed, CNN affiliate KMGH reported.
A sibling saw the boy get into the craft Thursday morning. Officials were concerned that the boy may have fallen out of it, an undersheriff said.
Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw Falcon Heene climb into the basket before the balloon took off from his parents' Fort Collins, Colorado home.
Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, it's possible the boy had fallen out, Martinez said.
The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, similar to a party balloon. The craft was drifting eastward, authorities said. Watch the balloon float thousands of feet over Colorado »
The helium balloon was tethered to the boy's family home, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.
The department said the dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high.




"The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of a crash at all," said Erik Nilsson, Larimer County emergency manager, according to CNN affiliate KMGH.
A dispatcher received a call Thursday morning, and emergency services personnel were contacted, Larimer County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Kathy Davis said.

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The balloon landed, but the boy was not in it.

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Boy Is Safe At Home.

The boy is safe at home. He never was in the balloon when it took off.


He was hiding in the attic of his house.

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Him lucky is not Jamaica him live!

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Him lucky is not Jamaica him live!

Boy told Wolf Blitzer that is was done for a reality show.

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people are now manufactirng their 15 minutes of fame