Around 9:00 this morning I was driving to the fitness center to work out. As I was driving north I saw two balloons taking off. We live across from Chatfield State Park and a lot of balloonist launch from there. One was OK but the other seemed to be in a distress mode. It finally landed but where it landed was the interesting part-about 50 yards south of C470, which is the major belt road around the western and southern parts of the Denver Metro area.
When I came back over an hour later, I didn't see the balloon on the ground. Since the drift was a very light breeze to the north, the relaunch would have been an exciting rise over a freeway. I can imagine a sleepy driver encountering a balloon in his face (Whoa, dude! What was that?). The second launch is strictly my imagination but given what I had seen early, either the second launch was scratched or a different excitement was put back into four-lane highway driving.
I've seen balloons come down in our residential area. One almost landed in a pond one time. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.