A fire that gutted a balloon frame home in Allentown on Sunday started small, with a family making pierogies. "It pretty much ran right up to walls into the roof, and at that point, we just couldn ...

The balloon landed 90 miles from the family’s home in Fort Collins with no Falcon inside. He turned up in an attic over the garage, having never been tucked in the balloon as his parents said.

A six-year-old boy in the US feared to have floated off in a helium balloon was found safe at his home, hiding in a cardboard box in the garage attic, police said last night.

About 11 a.m. Mountain Time, the craft came unsecured and floated into the air. The 20-foot balloon traveled about 50 miles at an altitude as high as 10,000 feet for nearly three hours.

Where is Balloon Boy now? Falcon Heene, a.k.a. Balloon Boy, is now 22 years old and specializes in building tiny homes. Per the New York Post, he owns and operates Craftsman Tiny Homes in Archer, Fla.

Once the balloon gently touched down in a field with no sign of the boy, Richard Heene said he feared the worst. "Oh, man, when when the police officers came in and closed the door and wanted to ...

But the boy fled to the attic at some point after the scolding and was never in the balloon during its two-hour, 80km journey through two counties. "I yelled at him.

If true, it would not be the first time families have tried to prank a nation. Click through for a look at "Balloon Boy" and other hoaxes from history. Read More: The Plank ...