About 11 a.m. Mountain Time, the craft came unsecured and floated into the air. The 20-foot balloon traveled about 50 miles at an altitude as high as 10,000 feet for nearly three hours.

After their hat discovery — the bat is still at large — the McGonagles used the Google Lens app to help identify what type of hat had been hidden away for more than 120 years in their attic.

A six-year-old boy in the US feared to have floated off in a helium balloon was found safe at his home, hiding in a cardboard box in the garage attic, police said last night.

But the boy fled to the attic at some point after the scolding and was never in the balloon during its two-hour, 80km journey through two counties. "I yelled at him.

The boy from the balloon, Falcon Heene, was in the attic the whole time! Uh oh! I mean, on the one hand, GREAT NEWS. The first thing that everyone in America wants is for Falcon Heene to be safe ...

The six-year-old American boy who was feared dead after apparently floating away in a homemade UFO-shaped balloon has been found safe, hiding in a box in an attic at his family's Colorado home.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A 6-year-old boy was found hiding in a cardboard box in his family’s garage attic Thursday after being feared aboard a homemade helium balloon that hurtled 50 miles ...

Falcon Heene, the 6-year-old who was believed missing, said he was in the balloon, but then he got out to go into the attic and play. After he was found safe, Falcon said on television that the ...

The balloon traveled about 50 miles during its flight and hit estimated speeds of about 30 mph. At times, it gained altitudes and then dropped as it flew in and out of rising thermals.

FORT COLLINS — A 6-year-old boy was found hiding in a cardboard box in his family’s garage Thursday after being feared aboard a homemade helium balloon that hurtled 50 miles through the sky on ...

Shots are fired at Wolf Blitzer. The Heene Boyz are on the case, trying to wake up the sheeple who think that a child can’t both be asleep in an attic and in a runaway balloon at the same time.

But the boy fled to the attic at some point after the scolding and was never in the balloon during its two-hour, 50-mile journey through two counties. “I yelled at him.