Balloon Dad’s Bizarre Stunts

October 18th, 2009, 10:00 PM EDT

Richard Heene has made some remarkable claims.


  • …he described for a national TV audience in March his belief that aliens are humanity’s ancestors…
  • …he told of once passing out in a fast-food restaurant and hearing aliens speak to him.
  • He boasted of his plans to build a flying saucer covered in aluminum foil and send it into a tornado.
  • He pulled his children around a hockey rink on a hovercraft-like device and took them on UFO-hunting expeditions.
  • Heene was always trying to get people to invest money in his storm-chasing exploits, including riding a motorcycle into the middle of a tornado…
  • The sheriff’s office investigated a domestic violence complaint at the home in March after Mayumi appeared battered, but no charges were filed.

Posted in Liberaland by Alan

Responses to this post...

  1. a couple french-fries short of a happy meal!

    vegasman Reply:
    October 19th, 2009 at 12:08 am

    That is good, I like that one

    Posted by crh3e
    October 18th, 2009 at 10:33 pm

  2. I have to go with Arianna Huffington on this. It’s a non-story that I’m really sick of hearing about. The guys a jerk, end of story.

    Posted by Sue Thomas
    October 18th, 2009 at 11:36 pm

  3. He got moor than his 15 minutes of fame, and I thought I was doing good on Alan’s chat stream when he mentions vegasman, Dam

    jazmine Reply:
    October 19th, 2009 at 12:28 am

    No worries, you’ll get your 20 minutes on Alan’s stream…Why?

    No idea, ask Alan?

    I keep getting moderated!

    :) JM

    Posted by vegasman
    October 19th, 2009 at 12:12 am

  4. Alan, Sunday is soon over, yet… let the Sun Shine In:)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UJgPIfiOGg&feature=related

    Posted by jazmine
    October 19th, 2009 at 1:07 am

  5. Alan,

    I’ve never seen you so obsessed with one person. Not even Meghan McCain or Carrie Prejean!

    Posted by michael
    October 19th, 2009 at 1:57 am

  6. Um, I think he subscribes to an alternate reality.

    Posted by Suzanne
    October 19th, 2009 at 3:17 am

  7. HEY ALAN—-enough with this balloon Dad hoopla. I checked and that is about all you posted over the weekend. Sure am glad I wasn’t on here over the weekend. Would have bored be to death.

    Posted by Daddio
    October 19th, 2009 at 8:36 am

  8. “* …he described for a national TV audience in March his belief that aliens are humanity’s ancestors…”

    Doesn’t Richard Dawkins entertain a similar idea? He won’t accept GOD as a cause but this planet could have been seeded with cells by aliens. Panspermia. So, if this is an implication that Dawkins is a little nutty, then I concur.

    This balloon dad is a wacko. The dude who Alan interviewed on Friday was a little eccentric as well…it’s no surprise those two were partners or friends or whatever.

    Posted by flap
    October 19th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

  9. Sounds like Limbaugh on oxycontin to me.

    Posted by CherylCarroll
    October 19th, 2009 at 5:37 pm