‘Balloon Boy’ Dad Reacts to Hoax Rumors
Richard Heene is reacting to rumors that his son Falcon’s disappearance and supposed flight in a homemade balloon was all a hoax. Earlier today, the world held its breath as a balloon that was thought to carry six-year-old Falcon traveled thousands of feet above the ground, and Thursday night, the family spoke out in a new interview broadcast live on CNN’s "Larry King Live." In the interview, Falcon said that while the world anxiously watched the balloon, thinking a child was inside, he was in the attic. He said, "I was in the attic, and the reason why I went up there, my dad yelled at me. He didn’t want me to play in the flying saucer." Falcon’s older brother Bradford said he thought his brother was in the balloon, because he says Falcon told him, "’I'm gonna go sneak in that flying saucer.’ … and I saw him go in." But then, when Wolf Blitzer asked why the boy didn’t come out of his hiding place when he was called, Falcon looked at both of his parents, and said, "You guys said we did this for the show." When Wolf followed up later, asking Richard to ask Falcon why he said that, Richard didn’t repeat the question to his son, and responded, in part, "I’m kind of appalled after all the feelings that I went through up and down that you guys are trying to suggest something else." Wolf responded, in part, by saying, "I don’t want you to misunderstand, just asking the question, doesn’t mean, Richard, that we’re suggesting anything untoward or anything like that."









