Sheriff's Blog Details Balloon Boy Saga

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Larimer County, Colo., Sheriff Jim Alderden writes a blog about incidents he has to deal with on the job. He says sometimes he has difficulty finding something to write about, but he had no trouble coming up with something for his latest entry.

Alderden is at the center of the balloon boy investigation and in his latest blog entry entitled "Up, Up and Away" he details the entire incident, backlash and media frenzy surrounding the event that occurred last week.

In his blog, which Alderden calls "The Bull's Eye - Straight Shooting from the Sheriff," he writes that he received more than 500 emails from around the world, some included rescue suggestions ranging from launching hot air balloons with nets, to sending out skydivers and para-gliders.

After the incident in which 6-year-old Falcon Heene was believed to be inside a basket attached to the balloon, but then was later found hiding in the family's garage, there was a lot of sentiment that Alderden should be removed from his position because his department initially accepted the Heene's explanation that the entire episode was a misunderstanding.

Alderden said he had to contend with complaints calling him everything from an "idiot," "gullible" and "Barney Fife" to a "big-mouthed, fat, bald-headed, over-inflated ego of a sheriff."

"Ouch!" writes Alderden. "I disagree with most of the above, but have to concede the fat and bald part."

Not all of the emails were negative, however. One writer from Finland told Alderden that he was a "real man," and appreciated his sense of humor when telling the story.

Alderden also addressed his so-called controversial American Flag shirt and said that he "particularly liked the caller who had proof that Hillary Clinton was a space alien. At least that caller had some credibility."

On Friday, Mayumi Heene admitted to investigators that the saga that gripped much of the United States was a hoax . Her husband Richard has yet to confess the incident was planned.