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'Balloon boy' mother admits it was a hoaxCourt papers say mother and father of Falcon Heene told three sons to lie to authorities and media in marketing ploy.

The mother of Falcon Heene, the six-year-old American boy who sparked a major rescue operation after he was wrongly believed to have been carried away inside a helium weather balloon, has admitted the incident was a hoax, reports say.

Mayumi Heene told a sheriff's investigator that she and her husband, Richard, "knew all along" that their son was hiding at their Colorado home, according to court documents.

The papers, which were made public in the United States, also suggest the parents had told their three children to lie to the authorities and the media.

According to the affidavit, Heene said the plan was to make the family, who have appeared on the US reality TV show Wife Swap, more marketable to the media.


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