david shuster in washington. it was one of those stories that transfixed the entire nation this afternoon, just after 3:00 eastern time, reports started coming in from ft. collins, colorado, that that experimental balloon, designed by richard heene, had become accidentally untethered and that the man's 6-year-old boy was onboard. there were reports from authorities that the young boy's brother claimed that he and his brother were messing around near the balloon and somehow 6-year-old falcon heene climbed onboard and it became untethered and there happened. for two hours, news helicopters watched as images of this balloon were transmitted around the world literally. and after two hours, the balloon made a miraculous landing of sorts in that it landed much softer than a lot of people feared it would. it landed very softly and authorities punctured the balloon. they looked inside and found