FORT COLLINS, Colo. - If the family of six-year-old Falcon Heene staged his phony disappearance aboard their homemade helium balloon Thursday just to get attention, they appear now to have had their fill of it.
Even as Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden attempted to put rumors of a hoax to rest Friday afternoon, the family, after appearing on several network morning news shows -- including one on NBC's Today Show during which Falcon vomited into a Tupperware container -- remains cloistered inside their home, no longer interested, it seems, in answering the questions of all the reporters continuing to knock on their front door.
It's a marked contrast to the scene here Thursday afternoon when Falcon, finally found hiding in the attic above the garage, spent the afternoon with his older brothers, running about the yard, climbing atop his parent's vehicles parked in the driveway and throwing sticks and other random objects into the air.
Whatever the boys are up to, they're doing it inside the house.
And the news crews, many of which proceeded Thursday night, one after the next, inside the house for sit-down interviews -- including the one on CNN in which Falcon told Wolf Blitzer that his parent's said they were doing it "for the show" -- are now aligned in the street together, unsure if their collective access to this extremely open family has been cut off.
According to Alderden, investigators plan to interview the family again Saturday, just to be sure that the family has been truthful about believing that Falcon was indeed aboard the flying contraption when it took flight unexpectedly from their backyard Thursday morning, as they reported during a 9-1-1 call.
Even as Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden attempted to put rumors of a hoax to rest Friday afternoon, the family, after appearing on several network morning news shows -- including one on NBC's Today Show during which Falcon vomited into a Tupperware container -- remains cloistered inside their home, no longer interested, it seems, in answering the questions of all the reporters continuing to knock on their front door.
Whatever the boys are up to, they're doing it inside the house.
And the news crews, many of which proceeded Thursday night, one after the next, inside the house for sit-down interviews -- including the one on CNN in which Falcon told Wolf Blitzer that his parent's said they were doing it "for the show" -- are now aligned in the street together, unsure if their collective access to this extremely open family has been cut off.
According to Alderden, investigators plan to interview the family again Saturday, just to be sure that the family has been truthful about believing that Falcon was indeed aboard the flying contraption when it took flight unexpectedly from their backyard Thursday morning, as they reported during a 9-1-1 call.
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