Sheriff Calls Heene Balloon Incident a 'Hoax'

Falcon Heene, center, became the focus of a massive search and a media blitz after his family called police Oct. 15, 2009, saying the boy was trapped on a homemade balloon that they had launched and was drifting away across the Colorado countryside. The 6-year-old boy was later found hiding in the attic of his family's Fort Collins, Colo., home. Media helicopters, military aircraft and the Federal Aviation Administration all assisted in tracking down the wayward balloon, which landed in a field in Weld County, Colo. (John Moore/Getty Images)