Balloon Boy” is already one of the most popular films on the streamer in the U.S. What is the Heene family featured in the ...

Richard Heene made headlines in 2009 when an eccentric backyard experiment put his and his family’s future in great turmoil.

At the age of 6, Falcon Heene became the center of National news. On October 15, 2009, the Heene family from Fort Collins, ...

Though the documentary didn’t really change my mind, and I still think that the whole October 2009 incident about a young boy supposedly being in a homemade flying saucer is some kind of hoax, I left ...

While authorities desperately searched for "Balloon Boy" Falcon Heene, his parents allegedly plotted the flight as a publicity stunt ...

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy is a Netflix documentary film that released on July 15, 2025. The documentary explores the Balloon Boy Hoax, which occurred on October 15, 2009, and gained national attention.

Falcon Heene became the biggest news story in the country in October 2009 when he was reported to be floating over Colorado ...

Trainwreck’ filmmaker Gillian Pachter examines the possibility for Netflix, and in conversation with The Hollywood Reporter.

O n July 15, the Netflix documentary Trainwreck: Balloon Boy takes flight, chronicling the saga of the Heene family in ...

Now, more than 15 years later, Netflix is revisiting the incident with Trainwreck: Balloon Boy, a new documentary directed by ...

"Balloon boy" Falcon Heene was the focus of national attention in October 2009, after his family claimed he was adrift in a ...

Over on the East Coast, it's been less summer and more rainy season — which gives us a perfect excuse to curl up indoors with ...