Netflix's latest Trainwreck documentary revisits the controversial Balloon Boy saga that captivated the nation. In 2009, audiences watched in horror as a homemade balloon believed to have a 6-year-old ...

(CNN) -- Three days after the world watched a giant balloon fly through the air as a tearful family expressed fears that ...

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 ...

"Balloon Boy" Falcon Heene is now 16 and in a heavy metal rock band with his brothers Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her ...

Anyone who watched the news in 2009 will remember “Balloon Boy,” the viral news story about a six-year-old boy who, supposedly, was trapped inside a helium-filled flying saucer, soaring through the ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Ten years ago, the world watched as a homemade balloon soared across the Colorado skies. And inside was a 6-year-old boy, probably terrified and possibly injured. Or so everybody ...

Yes, There Is a Boy in a Balloon Somewhere Over Colorado [Wait, No, There Isn’t]Falcon Heene, who was thought to be in a helium balloon thousands of feet in the air this afternoon, is still missing.

Richard Heene has been sentenced to jail time and received a huge fine for his role in the Balloon Boy hoax. The Larimer County District Attorney’s Office sent Richard and Mayumi Heene a bill for ...