As one reporter later recounted of Balloonfest ‘86: “It was like almost a volcano when it went off” ...

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Disaster was narrowly averted as a hot air balloon attempted to land in a residential street in Bedford. Footage shows the aircraft just a couple of metres away from the rooftops of homes on Bower ...

A man was killed following a hot air balloon disaster at a festival in Mexico, officials said. Rodrigo Reyes Mugüerza, the secretary general of government in Zacatecas, said the incident occurred ...

Europe was in the middle of a balloon craze. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier had given the first public demonstration of a hot-air balloon at Annonay, France, on June 4, 1783. On ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 28: The Barney balloon is carried past Macy's department store during the 76th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day ...

As one reporter later recounted of Balloonfest '86: “It was like almost a volcano when it went off" Bettmann Archive/Getty Balloonfest '86 promised to raise publicity for the still-rebounding city of ...