Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Balloon Boy incident occurred in 2009, when a Colorado family claimed their six-year-old son, Falcon Heene, had floated away ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s been 16 years since a Fort Collins man pranked the nation after claiming his son was trapped in a giant, flying-saucer shaped balloon. That balloon ...

"What if my stupid experiment kills my son?" Who remembers this story? Of course we all do... How could anyone forget?! Netflix has revealed an official trailer for the doc Trainwreck: Balloon Boy, ...

BURLINGTON — Federal investigators have ruled that a hot-air balloon collision with a moving freight train likely was caused by the balloon pilot’s decision to land his craft too close to the railroad ...

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 ...

In 2009, millions of Americans stopped what they were doing to watch a homemade silver saucer drift across Colorado skies. Inside that balloon, at least according to his parents, was six-year-old ...

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 ...