MENIFEE, Calif. (KABC) — A Menifee neighborhood received an unexpected visitor when a hot air balloon was forced to make an emergency landing Saturday.
The video shows the balloon slowly descending towards the quiet neighborhood.
Painted midnight blue with a crescent moon and stars, the balloon eventually landed in an open field behind a house.
Eyewitness News spoke with the woman who filmed the unusual sight.
“I was in this room, and my husband came in and he looked out the window and he said, ‘Oh, my God. Look at the hot air balloon,'” Maryam Dandan said. “It looked like it was an emergency landing. And when we got closer, the balloon looked like it had some kind of tear.”
Dandan said everyone seemed in good spirits after landing and fortunately no one was injured.
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