Balloon Boy: Story A Hoax?

Six-year-old Falcon Heene sits cross-legged on the roof of his family’s van outside his home in Fort Collins, Colo., after the little boy was found hiding in a box in a space above the garage on Thursday. Falcon Heene at first had been reported to be aboard a flying-saucer-shaped balloon fashioned by his father and then carried by high winds on to the plains of eastern Colorado. A county sheriff said today that there is no evidence that the incident was a hoax. Story here . (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Question: Was this story a hoax?