FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Larimer County Sheriff's investigators plan to talk to the Heene family again Friday, following a national TV interview they did Thursday night. It raised the question: was Colorado's Balloon Boy drama staged?
Many viewers who tuned into CNN's Larry King Live Thursday night seem to think so.
Reporter Greg Nieto spoke to Falcon Heene's mother, Mayumi, Friday morning and asked her on behalf of many people ondering the same thing, "You know some people are wondering... are we dealing with a hoax here?" She said she was sick of dealing with these types of questions, and "What we went through yesterday, the whole thing, is true."
Wolf Blitzer, filling in for Larry King, interviewed the Heene family about their ordeal Thursday night on national TV.
Blitzer asked Falcon Heene's father, Richard, if his son heard people calling out for him as they searched the family's Fort Collins home after the homemade, helium-filled experimental aircraft drifted off into the Colorado sky.
"Did you hear us calling your name at any time?" Richard asked Falcon. The boy nodded yes.
"Why didn't you come out?"
"You guys said that, um...we did this for a show," Falcon said.
Richard Heene struggled to explain his son's answer, even when Blitzer revisited the issue later in the broadcast.
Investigators tell FOX 31 News that -after seeing the interview on CNN- they plan to sit down with the family on Friday to discuss Falcon's curious response. They also say they have not ruled out filing charges in the case.
The 6-year-old got sick twice on national television Friday morning when he and his father were asked during separate TV interviews what he meant about his comment that "we did this for a show."
During an interview on ABC, Falcon Heene said Friday, "Mom, I feel like I'm going to vomit." He then left the room with his mother and could be heard gagging.
During a live interview on NBC shown simultaneously on Friday, Falcon threw up into a container when his father was answering the same question.
Local and national media were outside the Heene family's house in Fort Collins Friday. The family indicated it might address the local media later on Friday.
Balloon Boy Hoax? - Heene family on CNN - Part 1
Many viewers who tuned into CNN's Larry King Live Thursday night seem to think so.
Reporter Greg Nieto spoke to Falcon Heene's mother, Mayumi, Friday morning and asked her on behalf of many people ondering the same thing, "You know some people are wondering... are we dealing with a hoax here?" She said she was sick of dealing with these types of questions, and "What we went through yesterday, the whole thing, is true."
Wolf Blitzer, filling in for Larry King, interviewed the Heene family about their ordeal Thursday night on national TV.
Blitzer asked Falcon Heene's father, Richard, if his son heard people calling out for him as they searched the family's Fort Collins home after the homemade, helium-filled experimental aircraft drifted off into the Colorado sky.
"Did you hear us calling your name at any time?" Richard asked Falcon. The boy nodded yes.
"Why didn't you come out?"
"You guys said that, um...we did this for a show," Falcon said.
Richard Heene struggled to explain his son's answer, even when Blitzer revisited the issue later in the broadcast.
Investigators tell FOX 31 News that -after seeing the interview on CNN- they plan to sit down with the family on Friday to discuss Falcon's curious response. They also say they have not ruled out filing charges in the case.
The 6-year-old got sick twice on national television Friday morning when he and his father were asked during separate TV interviews what he meant about his comment that "we did this for a show."
During an interview on ABC, Falcon Heene said Friday, "Mom, I feel like I'm going to vomit." He then left the room with his mother and could be heard gagging.
During a live interview on NBC shown simultaneously on Friday, Falcon threw up into a container when his father was answering the same question.
Local and national media were outside the Heene family's house in Fort Collins Friday. The family indicated it might address the local media later on Friday.
Balloon Boy Hoax? - Heene family on CNN - Part 1
