Hot Air Balloon Comes Down Beside a Menifee Home, Resident Films Low Drift Over Neighborhood
On Saturday, November 7, 2026, a dark blue hot air balloon decorated with a yellow crescent moon and stars drifted low over a neighborhood in the city of Menifee, in Riverside County, California, and came down on the grass beside a home's backyard. Resident Maryam Dandan filmed the balloon's low drift and landing, and ABC7 in Los Angeles reported the incident the same day.
According to ABC7 and other media reports, no one was injured in the incident. However, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, CAL FIRE's Riverside County unit, the City of Menifee and its police department, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued no statement about the incident, and no official account of the details has been released; how many people were aboard the balloon and who operated it have never been made public.
Dandan, who shot the video, thought the balloon's envelope appeared to have a tear, but that was only her visual impression and has not been confirmed by any agency. An ABC7 anchor noted in the report that such an event is known in the ballooning industry as a "hard landing," not a crash.
Menifee sits next to the Temecula wine country, where hot air balloons are a common sight drifting over vineyards and neighborhoods in the early morning.
Source: ABC7
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Photo: 图：资料图，Temecula热气球节上的热气球，并非本次事件现场。Jon Sullivan摄，公共领域，经Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: File photo of hot air balloons at the Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival, not the scene of this incident. By Jon Sullivan, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
