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Here is a story tailor-made for "The Daily Show." A silver saucer-shaped experimental balloon took a two-hour tour on national television. Based on the testimony of an older brother, authorities believed Falcon Heene, 6, was in a box attached to the balloon. The Colorado National Guard deployed a OH-58 helicopter -- at $700 an hour -- and prepared to send a Black Hawk -- at $4,600 an hour -- to rescue the boy when he was believed to be on the balloon. Turns out the 6-year-old boy was discovered hiding in a crawl space in the garage. The balloon, powered by an electrical unit that ran on double-C batteries was the property of Mayumi Heene, who's claim to fame was being featured on the reality TV show Wife Swap, and his father, Richard, meteorologist and former television weatherman and apparently a storm chaser. One consequence of this little trip up, up and away may be a prolonged episode of Child Swat.
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