The pilot reported on his encounter with a street lamp after landing his hot air balloon.

Attributes
ACN	1328623
Time
Date	201601
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Balloon
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 29 Flight Crew Total 230 Flight Crew Type 230
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Object Inflight Event / Encounter Object Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

After a one hour sightseeing flight in hot air balloon; I approached a large vacant lot in a residential neighborhood for landing. The wind had been around 2-3 knots out of the north for the previous 20 minutes of the flight. As I descended to land; the wind picked up to approximately 8 knots from the northwest and I touched down towards the southeast corner of the lot and was then dragged out of the lot and onto the road. As the balloon deflated; the ground crew and I were unable to keep the envelope from being blown onto a street lamp on the south side of the road. After the wind calmed; we re-inflated the balloon and were able to safely roll it off of the street lamp.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: The pilot reported on his encounter with a street lamp after landing his hot air balloon.

Narrative: After a one hour sightseeing flight in hot air balloon; I approached a large vacant lot in a residential neighborhood for landing. The wind had been around 2-3 knots out of the north for the previous 20 minutes of the flight. As I descended to land; the wind picked up to approximately 8 knots from the northwest and I touched down towards the southeast corner of the lot and was then dragged out of the lot and onto the road. As the balloon deflated; the ground crew and I were unable to keep the envelope from being blown onto a street lamp on the south side of the road. After the wind calmed; we re-inflated the balloon and were able to safely roll it off of the street lamp.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.