Hoax! | E2 | Balloon Boy
18 August - 1 hour 9 minsFor a few tense hours in October 2009, the entire world watched as a homemade aircraft purportedly carrying a 6-year-old boy drifted in mid-air on live television. When the balloon landed, there was no boy inside.
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The video that I showed Dana of the YourShakeDown invention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xAX2Y8-g4g
Compilation of news coverage from the time of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAlwBcvb9RA
Internet Historian video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWhUvm8SunY&t=1s
Richard Heene’s response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axgyj7g5XZY
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