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by Mark Silva
It was "absolutely not'' a hoax, the father of "balloon boy'' maintains.
Just something they "do as a family," building a backyard helium-filled, mylar balloon in the shape of a flying saucer, chasing tornadoes with videocameras, appearing in the reality TV-show, Wife Swap, and then appearing together this morning on the Today show:
Where six-year-old Falcon Heene threw up.
While his father attempted to explain what the young boy who was found hiding in a cardboard box in the attic but was thought to have gone aloft with the runaway family balloon meant when he said last night on Larry King Live that "we did this for the show." (See that comment below.)
The boy is six, his father explained this morning, and there was a lot of media around the house yesterday.
The boy also went off-camera to throw up when he was asked during another interview on ABC this morning why he was hiding "for a show'' -- "Mom, I feel like I'm going to vomit,'' the boy said, leaving the room with his mother.
For the record, dad is "ticked off'' about the hoax questions.
And he says he wasn't aware of the greatest chase on live cable TV since O.J. Simpson's white Bronco playing out yesterday as the world watched a runaway balloon.
"I don't even have cable,'' father Richard Heene told Today. "I had no idea what was going on... Our focus was Falcon.''
See a full recitation of the story and Today's interview:
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