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 ...

The Heene family built this helium balloon in two weeks. Credit - Courtesy of Netflix Turns out Falcon—nicknamed “Balloon Boy”—was in his family’s house the entire time, nestled in a space above the ...

Netflix's Trainwreck docuseries has covered everything from 2013's Carnival "Poop Cruise" to the deadly crowd crush at 2021's Astroworld Music Festival. Now the series turns its lens on one of the ...

Here's what Richard and Falcon Heene have been up to over the last 15 years. First things first — Balloon Boy is not the same as Bubble Boy. The latter is a hilarious 1992 Seinfeld episode (and a ...

One of the more infamous apparent hoaxes to ever come out of Colorado is the subject of a new documentary on Netflix that will debut next week. The balloon boy saga will featured in a new installment ...

FORT COLLINS, Colorado -- A report of a 6-year-old Colorado boy trapped inside a runaway helium balloon engrossed the nation 10 years ago. It happened near Fort Collins, Colorado on Oct. 15, 2009 and ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A 6-year-old boy was found hiding in a cardboard box in his family's garage Thursday after being feared aboard a homemade helium balloon that hurtled 50 miles through the sky on ...

The Balloon Boy hoax, which took place in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2009, is revisited in a Netflix docuseries, "Trainwreck." The incident involved a homemade helium balloon that allegedly carried ...

We have many questions for the folks at Netflix regarding Trainwreck: Balloon Boy, a documentary that premieres July 15 about an infamous 2009 hoax that briefly obsessed a healthy slice of the ...

Here's what Richard and Falcon Heene have been up to over the last 15 years. Randall Colburn is a writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly. His work has previously appeared on The A.V. Club, The ...