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Netflix Revisits 'Balloon Boy' Incident Through Heene Family Interviews

The film highlights the Heene family’s ongoing insistence that the 2009 balloon event was accidental rather than staged.

The family at the center of the 2009 “Balloon Boy” hoax say that their story “was not told correctly.”
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Overview

  • Trainwreck: Balloon Boy premiered on Netflix on July 15, 2025, as the latest entry in the streamer’s Trainwreck anthology.
  • New footage features candid conversations with Richard, Mayumi and Falcon Heene as they revisit the October 2009 incident.
  • They maintain the float was unintended and say they pleaded guilty only to avoid Mayumi’s deportation.
  • The doc revisits the multiagency search that deployed local law enforcement, the National Guard and Homeland Security, culminating in the discovery of Falcon hiding in the garage attic.
  • The documentary covers Governor Jared Polis’s 2020 pardon and the Heenes’ subsequent life in Florida, where Falcon builds and sells tiny homes.