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The Balloon Boy hoax occurred on October 15, 2009, when a homemade helium-filled gas balloon shaped to resemble a silver flying saucer was released into the atmosphere above Fort Collins, Colorado, by Richard and Mayumi Heene. They then claimed that their six-year-old son Falcon was trapped inside it.
"We'd like to have more biopsies and fewer autopsies," Arianna Huffington said Tuesday night during a Q&A sponsored by Bloomberg Businessweek at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y. The Huffington Post ...
The husband and wife who pleaded guilty to criminal charges for staging the 2009 "balloon boy" hoax, creating a global media sensation with a false report that their son had floated away in a ...
You star as Helio, an adventurous balloon who travels perilous environments -- filled with spikes, fans, porcupines, flying pineapples, etc -- to rescue trapped balloons over 16 levels.
He had all necessary licenses and permissions, carried an oxygen supply, ADS-B transponder, and remote control of ballast and balloon-popping squibs. He released himself from the balloons and free-fell until his parachute automatically opened at 7,000 feet (2,100 m). [33] The balloon was then remotely piloted by the ground team to a safe ...
In an interview with Erica Hill on NBC TODAY September 19, 2015, Richard Heene claims that the Balloon Boy incident was not a hoax. [1] The interviewer states Richard Heene has maintained his family's innocence ever since the incident and only plead guilty in court because "the threat of deportation of my wife was imminent."
On the afternoon of Oct. 15, the world suddenly became spellbound -- focusing its attention on a shiny, oversized tinfoil popover that supposedly contained a six-year-old named Falcon Heene -- the ...
The 2009 balloon boy hoax, in which a father pretended that his six-year-old son was caught in an out-of-control helium balloon, reportedly in order to get publicity in order to get the family back into the reality-show business (after two appearances on ABC's Wife Swap), also raised questions about the exploitation of children.