Hot air balloon pilot reported striking power lines during an attempted landing.

Attributes
ACN	1566601
Time
Date	201807
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Balloon
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 12 Flight Crew Total 1331
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural FAR Inflight Event / Encounter Object Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control

Narrative:

Contacted power lines on approach to landing. First attempted to land in football field lot prior to power lines. Area was fenced with barbed wire. Plan was to fly to next block; but contacted power lines attempting to get to the open lot.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Hot air balloon pilot reported striking power lines during an attempted landing.

Narrative: Contacted power lines on approach to landing. First attempted to land in football field lot prior to power lines. Area was fenced with barbed wire. Plan was to fly to next block; but contacted power lines attempting to get to the open lot.

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.