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The Associated Press has reported that the Larimer County, Colorado sheriff’s office has already ascertained that the Heene family did not stage a hoax when the Balloon boy’s parents reported that their 6-year-old son was feared to have been in ‘a helium balloon that floated away from their home and traveled more than 50 miles.’ Knowing [...]

Falcon Heene, a 6 years old boy of Fort Collins, Colorado, sparked a media frenzy and a massive search and rescue operation, when he was reported missing by his family and presumed to drifting thousands of feet into the air, on his father’s home made helium balloon. Falcon’s older brother had videotaped him entering the balloon shortly before [...]