The Balloon Boy Hoax captivated the nation in October 2009, when Richard and Mayumi Heene claimed their 6-year-old son, Falcon, was trapped in a homemade helium balloon shaped like a silver flying ...

The frantic search for 6-year-old Falcon Heene, dubbed Balloon Boy, flooded the news in October 2009 after his parents reported that he was alone in a homemade, helium-powered balloon flying over ...

If you were like me, you watched the potentially devastating footage of Heene’s balloon listing through the air and worried that the boy was either trapped inside, or had presumably fallen to his ...

Netflix's new documentary, Trainwreck: Balloon Boy, explores how a young boy named Falcon Heene was caught up in one of the most unusual nationwide investigations and what happened to him in the years ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KDVR) — In October 2009, the story of “Balloon Boy” was born. Falcon Heene was just 6 years old at the time. While his parents searched high and low for Falcon, he was hiding out ...

While authorities desperately searched for "Balloon Boy" Falcon Heene, his parents allegedly plotted the flight as a publicity stunt The frantic search for 6-year-old Falcon Heene, dubbed Balloon Boy, ...