Now, users can create their very own "balloon boy" hoax by merging photos taken with the iPhone with a selection of silver balloon pictures, according to the company's press release. "People are ...

And what better way to gin up interest on that subject than to report that a weather balloon had gotten loose and was sailing over northern Colorado with an unplanned passenger aboard — their six-year ...

It was like a Weekly World News cover come to life. On October 15, 2009, most of the major network and cable broadcasters interrupted their daytime programming to cover what appeared to be a ...

The images of that silver mylar balloon shooting ... of the Heene family and started to investigate the Saga of Balloon Boy as a hoax. Poor kid. Rich ratings. Live by live TV, metaphorically ...

Famous for the Balloon Boy hoax in 2009, 9-year-old Falcon Heene is now fronting a band with his two brothers. HEENE BOYZ started in January 2011. The group’s website claims: “Falcon Heene was ...

(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) “That moment that there was ... and TV as something that can tear people apart, but the "Balloon Boy" incident, at that moment when the balloon was in the ...

News outlets from Al-Jazeera to the BBC to CNN beamed images of the floating spectacle, with the quickly dubbed “Balloon Boy” presumably inside. Social media exploded. Seven of Twitter’s top ...

Falcon Heene became known as "Balloon Boy" in 2009, after a helium balloon resembling a flying saucer floated from his home It ends up he wasn't in the balloon, and his parents were charged ...

Once the balloon gently touched down in a field with no sign of the boy, Richard Heene said he feared ... "What was really horrible is the images going through my mind, scenarios that could ...