It's a bird! It's a plane! Oh...it's just a Falcon.

COLORADO BOY SAFE AFTER FLYING SAUCER SCARE
(ABC News)

Falcon Heene, a six-year-old from Fort Collins, Colorado, was thought to have floated over the state for two hours when a "homemade flying saucer" got lose from his parents' yard and he went missing as well. Luckily, it was found out when the saucer landed and he was not inside that, in fact, he had spent that time hiding in the attic. Allegedly, his father had reprimanded the boy for playing with the aircraft and he retreated to the attic. As all great things eventually are, it's been found out after an interview on Larry King Live with guest host Wolf Blitzer that his parents, Mayumi and Richard Heene, were guests on the television show Wife Swap, and that the entire balloon stunt was for the sake of publicity. Is anyone particularly surprised by this in any way? I mean...and experimental aircraft in the backyard of a family's home that they're son happened to wander into and float away in Wizard of Oz-style? Plus the sketchy fact that they didn't bother to thoroughly check the attic? Puh-leese. However, good job on the verbal gaffe, little Falcon; kids say the darndest things!

Link to story at abcnews.com:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/year-boy-floats-homemade-flying-saucer/Story?id=8837704&page=1