Anyone who watched the news in 2009 will remember “Balloon Boy,” the viral news story about a six-year-old boy who, supposedly, was trapped inside a helium-filled flying saucer, soaring through the air at 7,000 feet. And if you don’t remember, you can relive this stranger-than-fiction event via the new Netflix documentary, Trainwreck: Balloon Boy, which began streaming today.

Balloon Boy is the latest episode in Netflix’s Trainwreck docuseries. Via brand-new interviews with the family who became a viral sensation over 15 years ago, director Gillian Pachter spends the first half of the special’s 50-minute runtime presenting the story the same way most of the American public experienced it while it was happening. Every news channel in the country was covering the bizarre, upsetting tale of an eccentric dad who built a helium balloon shaped like a flying saucer, accidentally released it into the air, and then realized his six-year-old child was hiding inside. Police were called to search the house, and major media organizations sent helicopters and countless reporters to follow the balloon’s flight path. In the end, the boy was revealed to never be in the balloon—he was simply hiding in the attic at home, and fell asleep.

But the second half of the documentary is spent uncovering the truth that, not only was the boy was never in the balloon, the entire ordeal was likely a hoax staged by the family as a publicity stunt. Rumors of a hoax swirled after the boy, Falcon, was asked on live TV by Wolf Blitzer if he heard his parents and police officers calling out for him in the house. Falcon replied, yes, he did hear them.

“Why didn’t you come out?” Richard asks his son.

Falcon replies, “Um, you guys said that, um, we did this for the show.”

The next day on Good Morning America, when asked why he said that, Falcon announced he felt sick to his stomach, walked away, and could be heard throwing up off-screen.

Was Balloon Boy real or a hoax?

Legally, the “Balloon Boy” incident was determined to be a hoax by the local law enforcement. Charges were brought against the parents, and both pled guilty. The boy’s father, Richard Heene, pled guilty to a felony charge of falsely influencing authorities and was sentenced to 90 days of jail time; while his mother, Mayumi Heene, pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of knowingly filing a false report with emergency services and was sentenced to 20 days of jail time.

Despite pleading guilty in court, the Heenes still publicly maintain the incident was not a hoax, and instead an unhonest mistake. The only reason they pled guilty, they said, is because law enforcement threatened to deport Mayumi, who is Japanese, unless they took a plea deal. But Trainwreck presents a piece of evidence that seems hard to ignore: Footage of Mayumi Heene’s police interrogation, in which she appears to confess to the hoax, and admits to asking her kids to lie about Falcon being in the balloon.

In the footage, officer Bob Heffernan from the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office can be heard saying, “This was all a hoax.”

Mayumi doesn’t reply out loud, but appears to nod in the video. (A present-day Mayumi claims, in an interview for the documentary, that because her English was not good in 2009, she didn’t know what the word “hoax” meant.) But the real damning moment comes when Heffernan asks, “Did you tell the boys what you were doing?”

“We told them,” Mayumi replies.

“How’d you get them to go along with it? Did you just ask them to act like their brother got up in the balloon?”

“Yeah,” Mayumi says. “Something like that.”

It seems hard to deny that Mayumi understood what she was being asked here. This was before lawyers got involved, and before Mayumi would have faced the threat of deportation. That said, we do also see footage of Heffernan pressing Mayumi as to where Falcon was during the incident, and her replying, consistently, “I really didn’t know.”

In his interview for the documentary, the Heenes’ attorney, David Layne, claims, “When you’re dealing with someone without a good grasp of the language, these leading questions are pretty much guaranteed to get false statements out of a suspect.”

If it was all a publicity stunt, it was a huge success. After all, here the family is, 15 years later, with their very own Netflix documentary. How’s that for justice?