Trainwreck: Balloon Boy

"Trainwreck: Balloon Boy" (2025) — watch online on iFILM, a documentary directed by Gillian Pachter. In October 2009, a silver homemade aircraft shaped like a flying saucer drifted across Colorado. Authorities were told a six-year-old named Falcon was inside. Networks cut to live coverage, rescue teams scrambled, and the country watched for hours.

He was in the attic the whole time. Pachter's film works through the Heene family from the inside — what they were after, how the media and law enforcement responded, and what came apart once the story stopped holding. At 53 minutes it stays tight and focused: a case study in how one afternoon stunt held the American news cycle hostage. Stream Trainwreck: Balloon Boy online on iFILM.