I Hope Falcon Heene Is Okay

At this point, it's not clear what's happened to Falcon Heene, the boy who was thought to have floated away in a home-made, helium-powered aircraft over Colorado.  He wasn't in a small compartment in the balloon.  The news reports I've heard say police searched the Heene family home and didn't find him.  I can see only three possible scenarios here, none of them good.  First and best of a bad lot, Falcon's brother lied or was mistaken when he said he saw Falcon get into the balloon, and Falcon is missing.  Second, it's a hoax, in which case there is going to be a hellacious amount of trouble for whoever set it up.  Third, he fell or jumped from the aircraft at some point, and is injured or dead.  Depending what actually happened, it will matter either a great deal or not at all to the interpretation of events that the Heene family was on ABC's Wife Swap not once, but twice.  What a mess.