Trainwreck: Balloon Boy
TVMA
Family
Special
Documentary
Investigating the national panic that ensues when a homemade flying saucer lifts off and a father claims his 6-year-old son is trapped inside.
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Matt Roush says...
Capturing the nation’s attention as a live-TV event on the scale of the O.J. Simpson highway chase, the 2009 spectacle of a homemade helium-powered flying saucer (described by some as a “Jiffy Pop thing floating across the sky”) untethered with a 6-year-old allegedly aboard made national headlines. Especially once the silver balloon came down to Earth with no passenger aboard, setting off a desperate search for little Falcon “Balloon Boy” Heene. The latest installment of Trainwreck explores the fallout when Falcon was discovered hiding in his attic, suggesting his father Richard had perpetrated a hoax.
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