It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...storm chasers experiment gone awry

I thought my eyes were deceiving me, but all of a sudden breaking news confirmed that there was a runaway weather balloon out near Hudson.  Apparently, an avid storm chaser had been constructing this balloon to launch in to storms but today it got loose and up it went.  Some thought the family’s 6 year old kid Falcon (irony) was in it as it soared away but when it landed, he wasn’t to be found.  The thing looked kind of like a UFO and was designed to be a foil type of craft.  I know nothing about airplanes and the such, but it made a pretty soft landing.  After it landed, authorities moved in and started pitchforking it to deflate it.  I thought if that kid was in there, he was going to be terrified!  He wasn’t in there.

UPDATE: I’ve been at work all afternoon and didn’t get to see this thing play out, BUT it sounds like it was a hoax the whole time.  I’m not even really sure if this guy is a storm chaser as I’m familiar with or know most of the Colorado chasers and I’ve never heard of this dude…ever.  Anyway, the family did an interview on CNN and the kid even says “we did it for the show.”  Hahahahahahaha!!!!  Duped everyone, myself included.  Now that the kid is okay, I can fully admit I was laughing my ass off the whole time I was watching this go down.  Oh man.  Absolutely made my week.  I just pictured some X-Files nerds freaking out that their homemade UFO got loose somehow.  Plus it was airing on every national news station in the country!  Everyone must think we are a bunch of lunatics here in Colorado.  Very entertaining television today.  Thanks again Heene family!