Trainwreck: Balloon Boy
Movie • 2025
ReportOn October 15, 2009, a father in Fort Collins Colorado calls 911, claiming that his home-made flying saucer has escaped from the back yard, carrying his six-year-old son inside. This stranger-than-fiction claim is backed up by footage from a news helicopter, which catches up with the balloon and is live-streaming the chase. What starts as a local emergency quickly escalates into a national one, as everyone from the National Guard, to the Sheriff, and Homeland Security, struggles to come up with a plan to safely rescue ‘Balloon Boy’.
As the balloon softly lands, people pray for a miracle reunion - but instead they discover no boy inside. What appears to be a tragedy takes a sharp turn into something else. Public sympathy quickly turns into righteous outrage, as Balloon Boy quickly becomes one of America’s most infamous, and bizarre news stories.
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Alison683
When they show the clip of the Heene family on during the interview where Falcon blurts out that the entire incident was done for a show, he starts to look really ill and announces “mom, I feel like I’m going to v*”. I don’t know if they showed him actually v-ing, because I immediately looked away, but I think they did.
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