Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Balloon Boy incident occurred in 2009, when a Colorado family claimed their six-year-old son, Falcon Heene, had floated away ...

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 ...

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colorado) issued four commutations and 18 pardons Wednesday. Among the people who received a pardon are the parents involved in the 2009 “balloon boy” incident that made ...