A bizarre hoax that captivated America in 2009 gets a fresh examination in "Trainwreck: Balloon Boy," premiering July 15. The ...

"What if my stupid experiment kills my son?" Who remembers this story? Of course we all do... How could anyone forget?!

The family behind the "balloon boy" controversy is speaking out in an upcoming Netflix documentary, and PEOPLE has an ...

I think it was crazy how I was six years old and I was able to affect the whole state of the country,” Falcon, now 22, said ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

reminiscent of the 2009 "balloon boy" hoax, in which the country sat rapt by televised images of a makeshift mylar balloon believed to be carrying a 6-year-old Colorado boy named Falcon Heene.