{"id":439392,"date":"2026-09-18T00:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439392\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:44:19","slug":"plano-balloon-festival-returns-featuring-hot-air-balloons-laser-shows-and-fox-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439392\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano Balloon Festival returns featuring hot air balloons, laser shows and FOX 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Plano Balloon Festival is happening this weekend, featuring hot air balloons, skydivers, live music, food, and family activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Morning balloon launches are set for 7:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, while evening balloon glows are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A new &#8220;Spectacular Laser Show&#8221; at 8:45 p.m. nightly replaces the traditional fireworks show this year due to dry weather and fire risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/ac964c6fa2ad574d0f39693b873db09e.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This year&#8217;s festival at Oak Point Park in Plano runs from Thursday evening through Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Schedule of events<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Similar to past years, this year&#8217;s schedule calls for balloon launches at 7 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings, weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Those same balloons will inflate and light up in a field at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. That&#8217;s after the 6 p.m. skydiving and parachute exhibition each night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For a full schedule and more information, visit <a data-ylk=\"slk:planoballoonfest.org;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/planoballoonfest.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">planoballoonfest.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The information in this story comes from the city of Plano, the Plano Balloon Festival website and FOX 4 News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Plano Balloon Festival is happening this weekend, featuring hot air balloons, skydivers, live music, food,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[19285,151516,150957,160,151278,162,161,152182,84775],"class_list":["post-439392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-fox-4","tag-hot-air-ballooning","tag-hot-air-balloons","tag-plano","tag-plano-balloon-festival","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-spectacular-laser-show","tag-weather-permitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439392","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=439392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}