Netflix's latest Trainwreck documentary revisits the controversial Balloon Boy saga that captivated the nation. In 2009, audiences watched in horror as a homemade balloon believed to have a 6-year-old ...

The Balloon Boy Hoax captivated the nation in October 2009, when Richard and Mayumi Heene claimed their 6-year-old son, Falcon, was trapped in a homemade helium balloon shaped like a silver flying ...

Netflix's Trainwreck docuseries has covered everything from 2013's Carnival "Poop Cruise" to the deadly crowd crush at 2021's Astroworld Music Festival. Now the series turns its lens on one of the ...

Now that the balloon boy is yesterday’s news, the saga having apparently run its course and the wheels of justice about to slowly grind the Heenes into dust, it may be time to step back and appreciate ...

"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, ...

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 ...

The Balloon Boy hoax, which took place in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2009, is revisited in a Netflix docuseries, "Trainwreck." The incident involved a homemade helium balloon that allegedly carried ...

Sixteen years after their science experiment turned into a full-blown national emergency, the Heene family is finally speaking out “for the first time” in the upcoming Netflix documentary. The bizarre ...

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 ...

Students from the Long Island High School for the Arts are performing a new iteration of “Balloon Boy,” a dark comedy musical written by Long Islander Billy Recce. Recce, who first wrote the musical ...