COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) – About 200 residents lost their electricity on Sunday morning after an early-morning hot air balloon mishap.

Green Mountain Power Corp. turned off the electricity in Colchester village after the balloon came in contact with some power lines. Nobody was seriously hurt, and power was restored after about an hour and a half, police said.

The incident happened as pilot Steve Goodyear of West Kingston, R.I., too part in the Vermont Balloon and Music Festival at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction.

Goodyear was one of several pilots taking paying passengers for a balloon ride, said Larry Konash, who was managing balloon operations at the festival.

Carrying four passengers, Goodyear made a normal landing in a Colchester hayfield.

But when he tried to move the balloon about 100 feet to another area of the field, it came in contact with a power line, Konash said.

“The power lines out there in the countryside are quite small; they’re very difficult to see,” he said. “The pilot probably didn’t see it.”

One of the passengers injured an ankle, and was later treated and released, Konash said. The balloon wasn’t damaged.

About 40 balloons from all over the United States took part in the festival this weekend, Konash said.

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