The Rio Grande and nearby mountains provide spectacular backdrops to the fiesta that began with a few pilots launching 13 balloons from an open lot near a shopping center on what was the edge of ...

Guests from all over the world come to Albuquerque to celebrate ballooning. From its modest beginning in 1972 with 13 balloons launching from a shopping mall parking lot, Balloon Fiesta has grown to ...

Nothing quite compares to witnessing a mass ascension at dawn, when hundreds of colorful hot air balloons lift off the ground and fill the sky above. But the fun of hot air balloon festivals doesn ...

Oct. 4—The 52nd Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta starts Saturday, October 5, and runs through October 13, with 560 or so balloons from around the country and the world. Nothing says ...

3 injured after hot air balloon strikes power lines, crashes: FAA Three people were seriously injured when their hot air balloon struck power lines and caught on fire before crashing into an ...

The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta begins on Oct. 5 and runs through Oct. 13. Here's everything you need to know about this ...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — A drone show and a flawless mass ascension ended Sunday’s last day of the 52nd Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing for this year’s ...

South Korea has found GPS transmitters in some of North Korea’s balloons floated across the border, Yonhap News reported Sunday, a possible bid by Pyongyang to enhance the precision of efforts ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – KRQE News 13’s Chief Photographer, Nick Burke, captured timelapse videos of the first week of Albuquerque’s 52nd Balloon Fiesta. Below is a summary of what ...

LONDON and SEOUL -- Refuse carried by a North Korean "trash balloon" landed inside the South Korean presidential compound in the capital city of Seoul on Thursday amid rising tensions between the two ...

2024 Updated Oct 13, 2024 Cooperative weather and the ability to stick to the program as scheduled were highlights for this year’s Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Balloon Fiesta ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A drone show and a flawless mass ascension ended Sunday’s last day of the 52nd Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing for this year ...