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 ...

The family at the center of the infamous 2009 “Balloon Boy” hoax that took the nation by storm has a new excuse for their scam: the media “skewed the narrative to fulfill their need.” In 2009, the ...

The bizarre incident from October 2009 is being told by the entire Heene family “for the first time” in the upcoming Netflix documentary 'Trainwreck: Balloon Boy' The Heene family, who was at the ...

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 ...

Now that the balloon boy is yesterday’s news, the saga having apparently run its course and the wheels of justice about to slowly grind the Heenes into dust, it may be time to step back and appreciate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experts say thrusting kids into the spotlight can cause damage. Oct. 20, 2009 — -- From the Dionne quintuplets in the 1930s to Balloon Boy Falcon Heene, children have been paraded in front of ...

Students from the Long Island High School for the Arts are performing a new iteration of “Balloon Boy,” a dark comedy musical written by Long Islander Billy Recce. Recce, who first wrote the musical ...