{"id":439140,"date":"2026-09-17T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439140\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T19:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:52:09","slug":"plano-balloon-festival-returns-featuring-hot-air-balloons-laser-shows-and-fox-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439140\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano Balloon Festival returns featuring hot air balloons, laser shows and FOX 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PLANO, Texas &#8211; The Plano Balloon Festival kicks off on Thursday for a weekend of family fun, hot air ballooning, and chances to meet your favorite FOX 4 anchors and reporters.<\/p>\n<p> Plano Balloon Festival   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/v-plano-balloon-festival-9p_kdfwfe70_146_mxf_00.01.32.46.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This year\u2019s festival at Oak Point Park in Plano runs from Thursday evening through Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">There will be a little something for everyone in the family \u2013 live music, rides, food trucks, vendors, skydivers, and, of course, colorful hot air balloons.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FOX 4 is a proud sponsor of the event and will have a booth on the fairgrounds featuring some of your favorite anchors and reporters. Fans can swing by to say hello and win fun prizes.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Schedule of events:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Similar to past years, this year\u2019s schedule calls for balloon launches at 7 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings, weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Those same balloons will inflate and light up in a field at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. That\u2019s after the 6 p.m. skydiving and parachute exhibition each night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">There will be no fireworks show this year because of the dry weather conditions and a fire risk. Instead, there will be a new &#8220;Spectacular Laser Show&#8221; nightly at 8:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">For a full schedule and more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/planoballoonfest.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">planoballoonfest.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the city of Plano, the Plano Balloon Festival website and FOX 4 News.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/plano\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/things-to-do-in-dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Things To Do In Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLANO, Texas &#8211; The Plano Balloon Festival kicks off on Thursday for a weekend of family fun, hot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,242,223,160,162,161,41924,216,393],"class_list":["post-439140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-collin-county","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-things-to-do-in-dallas","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}