balloon boy News

balloon boy News From AOL News

New Mexico Boy, 9, Preps for Solo Flight in Balloon

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Bobby Bradley is ready. He has been training for about five years and learned from some of the most experienced and decorated pilots in the sport of ballooning. But he'll be making his own mark on the sport when he lifts off from a desolate patch of New Mexico desert in about seven weeks: At 9 years...

Balloon Boy Dad Gets the Itch to Sell Back Scratchers

(Oct. 28) -- Richard Heene has got the itch to return to the public eye, but this time he's not sending his kid up in a crazy balloon. Now, he's selling "Bear Scratch," a post that attaches to an interior or exterior wall that allows humans to scratch an itchy back the same way bears do in the wild. "If you itch like a...

NYC UFOs: Yup, They Were Just Balloons

(Oct. 15) -- Not every person who sees a UFO is filled with hot air, but the unidentified flying objects spotted over Manhattan on Wednesday were apparently just a bunch of lost balloons. So says Angela Freeman of the Milestone School, which is in the New York City suburb of Westchester County. "UFO? They're crazy --...

'Balloon Boy' Anniversary: Lesson Learned?

(Oct. 14) -- Rewind to one year ago: We watched, transfixed, as a giant silver balloon hurtled across the sky, chased by aircraft and vehicles on the ground. Inside was an undoubtedly terrified 6-year-old boy. The nation held its breath. And then exhaled in a giant sigh of disgust as it slowly became clear the whole...

'Balloon Boy' Family Reunited With Balloon

(May 20) -- The glistening, aluminum-foil-wrapped helium balloon that transfixed American television audiences who believed it might be carrying a helpless 6-year-old boy has been returned to the man who built it -- but not without a little more controversy. Richard and Mayumi Heene arrrived at the Larimer County...

balloon boy News From AOL

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Arianna Huffington On Social Media: Beware 'Fetishization Of Things Going Viral'

She may be known for her role in harnessing bloggers and social media to deliver news, but Arianna Huffington concedes there are "snakes in the garden" she helped create.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Turnstyle: Will Texas Psychic Meet Balloon Boy Fate?

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com , a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered by award-winning journalists .

Background on balloon boy

The balloon boy hoax occurred on October 15, 2009 in Fort Collins, Colorado, when Richard and Mayumi Heene allowed a gas balloon filled with helium to float away into the atmosphere, and then claimed that their six-year-old son Falcon was inside it.

more at wikipedia »