In October 2009, the country watched in horror as a homemade, helium-powered balloon floated over Colorado with a small child allegedly inside. Authorities and volunteers nationwide searched for signs ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Ten years ago, the world watched as a homemade balloon soared across the Colorado skies. And inside was a 6-year-old boy, probably terrified and possibly injured. Or so everybody ...

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy is a Netflix documentary film that explores the Balloon Boy Hoax, which happened on October 15, 2009. Directed by Hannah Poulter and Yemi Bamiro, the documentary explores the ...

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy — the latest in Netflix’s Trainwreck documentary series — is already one of the most popular films on the streamer in the U.S. What is the Heene family featured in the ...

Last week, news organizations erupted with the story that a six-year-old boy, Falcon Heene, climbed into a helium-filled Mylar balloon in Colorado and floated away from his parents. When the balloon ...

"Balloon Boy" Falcon Heene is now 16 and in a heavy metal rock band with his brothers Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her ...

The Heene family, who was at the center of the "balloon boy" controversy in 2009, is speaking out in an upcoming Netflix documentary Trainwreck: Balloon Boy PEOPLE has an exclusive look at a new ...

Richard Heene defended the story that he thought his son Falcon floated away. It's been 10 years since police called the search for the infamous balloon boy a hoax, but even now, the boy -- now a ...

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy documentary revisits one of the most bizarre news-media events of the twenty-first century: a national incident involving a homemade flying saucer balloon. The documentary ...

Remember the Balloon Boy? Back in 2009, we were led to believe that the aptly named Falcon Heene, a 9-year-old child, was trapped in a helium balloon that was flying through the skies. Young Falcon ...