Here’s the thing they don’t tell you about hot air balloons. You are completely and TOTALLY at the mercy of the wind.

I was guarding an empty warehouse on a quite Sunday afternoon. I was standing on the roof just relaxing. The warehouse was right on the edge of the city limits. Beyond it was nothing but farmland. Anyways while i was up there I noticed a hot air balloon starting to descend. It was descending and coming in at an angle quite fast. When it hit the ground I wold say it was still going about 30Kph. and the basket was dragged about a football fields length before it finally came to rest. while it was being dragged I could see two people just go ass over teakettle and fall out of the basket as it was being dragged along.

I assume it was an emergency landing because the wind had started picking up. Unfortunately the field they landed in didn’t have any access that wasn’t fenced off and was surrounded by deep ditches all around. The chase car drove everywhere around the field to try and get to them and eventually ended up driving up to a farmhouse and I assume they let them onto the field.

I had to get back to wandering the warehouse so I never got to see what finally happened. But it was and interesting part of a quiet Sunday.