10:25 am Tue Apr 21, 2026

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"I go and answer the door. This guy's like, 'They just landed in your backyard!!!'" said Hunter Perrin. "And I'm like, 'What!?'"

Perrin and his wife, Jenna, who was in another room at the time, then went outside to see what had happened.

"I open the sliding glass door, and there's a basket full of thirteen people in my backyard!" Perrin said. "The pilot, he was masterful. He got it right down inside, like directly into the backyard, where there was nothing. The balloon didn't catch on anything. No one was injured."

The homeowners say the hot air balloon pilot told them the wind died, forcing him to make an emergency landing.

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At least they didn't ask to use the pool.

Previously:

• The boy who survived an accidental hot air balloon flight in 1964

• Man gets caught in ropes of hot air balloon

• Watch this curious and surprising Hot Air Balloon PSA

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