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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' 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 Mom's Interviews Contradict Husband

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Jan. 23) - A newly released video shows the mother of the 6-year-old boy purported to be in a runaway balloon finally acknowledging to authorities it was all a hoax - contrary to her husband's repeated public denials just before reporting to jail. The video interviews obtained by the Fort Collins...

Father Denies 'Balloon Boy' Spectacle Was Hoax

(Jan. 7) -- A man who pleaded guilty to perpetrating a hoax by falsely reporting that his son was drifting over eastern Colorado in a balloon maintains in an interview with CNN's "Larry King Live" that the incident was not part of a plan for fame. Richard Heene pleaded guilty in November to a felony count of attempting...

Heene's Kiddie Video: 'Let's Play in Boxes'

Long before his 6-year-old became known as "Balloon Boy," Richard Heene was urging kids to play in cardboard boxes, much like young Falcon was supposedly doing last Thursday, when authorities feared for the boy's life. In an obscure, self-produced children's video provided to AOL News, the 48-year-old handyman,...

Background on falcon heene

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.

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