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Denver voters reject space-alien commission

By | 11.03.10 | 11:45 am

Voters panned a proposal to create a city commission to prepare for extraterrestrial visitors. The man behind the proposal lamented in the language of recession politics the landslide vote against his initiative. The commission wasn’t just about aliens, he…

Falcon Heene: He’s safe, so buy a balloon boy T-shirt!

By | 10.16.09 | 7:37 am

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Falcon Heene didn’t crawl into the balloon-saucer-craft his father built to chase storms and to test theories of magnetics and gravity. The six-year-old youngest Heene boy instead crawled into a box in the attic of his home, where…

Balloon boys and backyard experimental aircraft construction

By | 10.15.09 | 2:42 pm

UPDATE: As the world knows by now, Falcon Heene, the boy now famous for appearing to have climbed aboard, launched and ridden for two hours in a backyard tinfoil balloon saucer craft, came down out of the attic of