Balloon Boy

A 6 year-old boy named Falcon Heene reportedly climbed into a helium-filled balloon which was meant to hover only 20 feet above the ground, but took off. Before a captivated world, news stations tracked the flight of the balloon with video over 8000 feet into the air. A global media frenzy would ensue, with an enraptured Internets audience tracking every move… that is, until it was discovered that Falcon wasn’t onboard at all, and that the whole incident was entirely fabricated by his attention-seeking parents.