Balloon boy family plans 'big announcement'

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A man whose experimental balloon took off and raced across the Colorado sky on Thursday — reportedly with that man's 6-year-old son aboard — says he plans to give a "big announcement" at 10 a.m. Saturday morning.

The Heene family is at the center of a saga after news crews from around the globe and law enforcement from around the state first were told the man's son, Falcon Heene, was flying across the state in the wayward, helium-filled, saucer-shaped balloon. The boy later turned up hours later hiding in the family's attic above their garage.

"I'm going to have a press conference out here at, let's say, 10 a.m. Okay?" Richard Heene said outside his home around 5:30 a.m. on Saturday. "So it's a few more hours. So, I'd like to speak everybody about a few things. Okay? So, it's a big announcement."