FORT COLLINS. Colo. – A family’s runaway experimental balloon aircraft crash-landed after floating away from home, but there was no sign of a 6-year-old boy authorities thought had been inside.

The bizarre scene played out live on television. The balloon rotated slowly in the wind, tipping precariously at times several hundred to several thousand feet in the air, before coming down in a field.

Rescuers rushed to the scene but found no sign of the boy.

Balloon crash-lands in Colo.; no sign of boy – Life- msnbc.com