Richard Heene, The Balloon Boy, and UFOs

[Beau]

I was originally going to post this is the Lizzies and the Media thread, but figured I kind of jumped around to other things as well so might as well give it its own thread.

I'm sure by now you all have heard, read, or been told about the "balloon boy", Falcon Heene, and the hoax surrounding his disappearance. From one published report, it turns out it was all (allegedly) a grand plan by the boy's father, Richard Heene, to become famous and use his child to get a reality TV show and most likely become rich and famous (Here's a clip of the child admitting it was "for the show" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6UONWCq7A - Falcon says, in response to a question, "We did this for the show"). This is one of many interesting pieces of info laid in an exclusive interview to Gawker by Heene's former assistant, Robert Thomas. I'm going to paste in the parts of the interview where he talks about Richard and the Lizzies/UFOs, but the whole thing is interesting to read and get a glimpse into the mind of someone who would subject their son to such a horrible ordeal. I have a feeling that this is one of those cases where HAARP is coming into play and the guy was being beamed from above.

http://gawker.com/5383858/exclusive-i-helped-richard-heene-plan-a-balloon-hoax

This is quoted from about the middle of the article

The UFO Idea (And the End of the World As We Know It in 2012)

One night, when Richard and I were sitting and talking, he brought up Wife Swap, and specifically a confrontation he had with a woman on the show who claimed to be a psychic. They very much disliked one other. Richard said, "Well, think about it. We were the 100th episode of Wife Swap. And why are we the most recognized Wife Swap family and episode? It's because of the controversy. I don't care what people say about me as a person, but the fact of the matter is that they know who I am."


And then we delved into the area of UFOs. I was reading a book on witness reports of Roswell at the time, just out of curiousity — I've never concluded whether it really took place or was an elaborate hoax. And Richard said, "how much do you want to bet we could facilitate some sort of a media stunt that would be equally profound as Roswell, and we could do so with nothing more than a weather balloon and some controversy?"

Can we attract UFO's with a homemade flying saucer? We will modify a weather balloon, so that it resembles a UFO and will electrically charge the skin of the craft (Biefield-Brown Effect). We will capture the footage on film, and will utilize the media as a means with which to make our presence known to the masses. This will not only provide us with incredible footage, but will also generate a tremendous amount of controversy among the public, as well as publicity within the mainstream media. This will be the most significant UFO-related news event to take place since the Roswell Crash of 1947, and the result will be a dramatic increase in local and national awareness about The Heene Family, our Reality Series, as well as the UFO Phenomenon in general.

I clearly remember Richard telling me that, if we accomplish this, it would be the most controversial and widespread UFO news story since Roswell in 1947.

But he was motivated by theories I thought were far-fetched. Like Reptilians — the idea there are alien beings that walk among us and are shape shifters, able to resemble human beings and running the upper echelon of our government. Somehow a secret government has covered all this up since the U.S. was established, and the only way to get the truth out there was to use the mainstream media to raise Richard to a status of celebrity, so he could communicate with the masses.

As the weeks progressed, his theories got more and more extreme and paranoid. A lot of it surrounded 2012, and the possibility of there being an apocalyptic moment. Richard likes to talk a lot about the possibility of the Sun erupting in a large-scale solar flare that wipes out the Earth. It got to the point where he was really pressing me, saying we're running out of time, we're running out of time, the end of the world is coming. And we have to take necessary precautions to make sure that we're not among the majority that's going to be killed.

It got to the point where I was just nodding my head and going along with what he said, because it was easier than trying to debate with him.

That is just a part of the interview, which touches on a few other subjects as well. But I thought the Lizzie part was really interesting. The guy is obviously unstable and now, if anyone wants to talk about UFO's, it's gonna cue up the "just another Richard Heene" comments.

Just reminds me stuff is intentionally beamed into people's minds so that they go on ranting about them and it totally discredits the whole idea of the alien/UFO reality. Also, Heene was posting on YouTube rants about lizards previously to the incident - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6351941/Balloon-boy-Richard-Heene-in-bizarre-Hillary-Clinton-YouTube-rant.html - calling Hillary Clinton a shape-shifting reptilian and all sorts of other rants.

Maybe he wasn't getting beamed anything, and he's just a sick individual who would use anyone and anything, including his own son, to further advance his agenda of becoming some sort of reality TV celebrity family a la Jon and Kate Plus 8. But it's interesting reading all the sarcastic comments by websites about aliens because of it being brought up by this guy.

 

[knowledge_of_self]

Maybe he wasn't getting beamed anything, and he's just a sick individual who would use anyone and anything, including his own son, to further advance his agenda of becoming some sort of reality TV celebrity family a la Jon and Kate Plus 8. But it's interesting reading all the sarcastic comments by websites about aliens because of it being brought up by this guy.

I find this all very interesting. The article was very interesting and has some revealing remarks such as the quote Heimdallr posted above.
While the balloon incident was taking place on Thursday morning, I was at the dentist. The assistant put the TV on for me to watch while the dentist got ready and I saw 2 interesting things on TV at that time. One- President Obama’s speech, the other was the coverage of Balloon Boy. After watching it for a few minutes my immediate reaction was of course, “omg poor kid!!” After a few minutes of watching it more, I thought to myself.. “Isn’t all this media coverage a little excessive? I mean sure! You don’t get a trapped kid on a weird UFO shaped flying saucer hot air balloon that the family built apparently? But still… it just seems almost too much like a stunt to really be true. Wouldn’t it be funny if it turned out the kid isn’t even in there and all this turns out to be for nothing? All these news people would feel pretty stupid… but than again it would be good because at least the child is safe.” Mind you, this all passed in my mind within the span of a few minutes.

So, I find it all interesting.. I think it may have been HARRP, or it may just have been COINTELPRO trying to discredit the whole UFO/aliens subject once again using Heen as bait. I also think Heen is of course a narcissist to use his own family especially his kid to further his own goals of becoming rich and famous.

The article states:

Bluntly, I think Richard's ego blinds him to his brilliance. The only thing inhibiting him from progressing is a steadfast determination to become famous and live a Hollywood lifestyle. Someone needs to slap him in the face and say, "Wake up! This is not what's important."

This reminded me of an article that Laura posted recently here. Which discusses what fame does to people's psyche. I think Richard Heen is either a narcissist who has either been used by COINTELPRO due to his lust for fame; or just a plain narcissist who, having been on TV before and tasting what stardom is like wanted to be part of that world by any means, and therefore became addicted to fame.

Personally i feel so bad for the little children of this guy, especially Falcon. As the author of the article states:

I especially feel bad for Falcon. He's going to be known as Balloon Boy the rest of his life. That's not something you want to tell a girl on the first date.

I wholeheartedly agree. This child has been traumatized to say the least and probably will be for the rest of his life, and so will his brothers. Not to mention, he’s probably being blamed non-stop for ruining the stunt and getting his father thrown into prison (maybe) depending on what happens.
I do wonder one thing. How much is the mother involved in all of this? Is she just following in her narcissistic husbands footsteps? Or was she oblivious to the whole stunt like the rest of the world until the little boy spoke?

Perhaps this thread belongs in baked noodles because in some ways it really bakes my noodle how someone could do something to this extent.

 

[truth seeker]

When I heard this story I thought there was something that didn't add up. The same feeling you get when being told a lie. I still feel that way, like there's a huge piece missing.

When I see stuff like this, one of the things I think is, "What's going on in the world that they need to divert attention away from?" This happened, I believe, with the Anna Nicole death. The weekend she died, there was supposed to be a debate between Obama and Clinton (Hilary). I was looking forward to seeing this debate, but every channel I turned to was airing the Anna Nicole footage. I think it's a ploy to distract from something crucial.

I also wouldn't be surprised if this incident was orchestrated to get the general public used to the idea of lizzies.

It will be interesting to see what if anything really happens to him. Will his children get taken away from him? Will they try to normalize his behavior? I think the charges leveled against him will help to clarify what the true intent was.

 

[RedFox]

I just want to chip in here to say that there seems to be some striking similarities between things like this and previous orchestrated large scale media events listed in Operation Trojan Horse.
That is, some guy has something 'important' to say (and money/fame/influence), is contacted by someone claiming to 'know the truth' (this seems to be missing from the story above...although I have not read the full article)....usually a short pale skin guy only to have the 'event' turn round and totally discredit both the person and by proxy the 'UFO' phenomenon.
Appart from missing who may have put him up to this (fed him what he 'needs to know')....it is absolutely text book by comparison to the examples in keels book.

It would be interesting to note if there are any significant UFO flaps going on at the moment....there seems to be a lot of meteor activity...will have to go look at keels book again for date references of reoccurring flaps.

I really do feel sorry for the kids though :(

 

[3DStudent]

I saw this event on TV before leaving for work the day it happened. I was just intrigued looking at this weird UFO looking balloon for so long. It was only a few minutes after that I thought, "Oh yeah, there's a little 6 year old boy in that." Then it was announced that it was a hoax. So at first I thought I wasn't being empathic feeling only interested in this event and the balloon, but maybe I kind of intuited that something was off about it.

As far as this guy discrediting the Ufology field, it reminds me of Richard Dolan's recent conference posted on Sott: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/194650-Richard-Dolan-We-ve-got-to-make-sure-that-the-actual-truth-gets-out. He was talking about how we must not let people who just remote view, channel, or contact ET's be our spokesmen. If these things are to be taken seriously we need to have people who have the hard and critical data to be the ones to release this to the public. And this balloon event just isn't going to do that.


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[Hildegarda]

When I see stuff like this, one of the things I think is, "What's going on in the world that they need to divert attention away from?" This happened, I believe, with the Anna Nicole death.[..] I think it's a ploy to distract from something crucial.

absolutely, I noticed this too. They do it often.