Richard Heene promised a big announcement this morning, but when he emerged from his Fort Collins home to gathered media from around the world, it was an anticlimax.

Heene, father of a 6-year-old boy originally thought to be aboard a saucer-shaped balloon as it drifted across the Colorado sky Thursday, simply placed a cardboard box on his front porch.

He said he has been inundated with phone calls and emails with questions since the dramatic flight that gained global attention.

Heene placed the box on his front porch and invited people to leave written questions in it, which he said he would answer at 7:30 p.m. this evening.

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