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In an update to the big story sweeping all of our new stations’ front desks today, (no, not Afghanistan, Iraq or the economy) the 6 year old boy, Falcon, that was thought to be flying 10,000 feet above Colorado has been located in a box in his family attic.

Even at this time, the reports of where Heene was found are mixed. The New York Times reported that he was found in the garage in a box. MSNBC and CNN stated that he was found in a box in the family’s attic. The bottom line: young Falcon Heene was never in the balloon that floated through the sky over several counties in Colorado and he is safe.

Faclone Heene and his family were recently featured on ABC’s Wife Swap reality show. His parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene of Ft. Collins, Coloradoare storm chasers. Their haphazard parenting style was criticized by the other family featured in the early October “Wife Swap” episode.

According to the ABC ‘Wife Swap’ website, the family sleeps in their clothes so they can leap from bed and run after a storm at any given moment. The site also describes a “flying saucer” that sounds a lot like the giant silver balloon that found its way back to earth Thursday without the Heene child in it.

“When the Heene family aren’t chasing storms, they devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm,” says the ABC Wife Swap site.

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FROM POLL POST: Now’s your chance to make your point known – is the whole Balloon Boy thing a hoax? Did the Heene family set themselves up for some publicity? Or did they really believe their 6 year old son Falcon was inside of the weather balloon that was soaring 10,000 feet above Colorado yesterday? To vote, see the TalkTuna sidebar to the right of this post!