The 39th annual New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning returns

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Colourful balloons are filling the skies over New Jersey this weekend because the thirty ninth annual New Jersey Lottery Competition of Ballooning returns.

READINGTON, New Jersey (WABC) — Colourful balloons are filling the skies over New Jersey this weekend because the thirty ninth annual New Jersey Lottery Competition of Ballooning returns.

The Competition of Balloons is the biggest summertime scorching air balloon and music pageant in North America — it takes place on July 29,30 and 31.

The annual pageant, which options as much as 100 sports activities and particular formed scorching air balloons from across the nation, takes to the skies twice every day.

9 special-shaped balloons embody the 135-foot-tall New Jersey Lottery Sunny Days sun-shaped balloon full with 65-foot-wide sun shades; a unicorn, a tiger, and a panda bear, oh my!

Count on loads of household leisure together with concert events, fireworks, and a nighttime scorching air balloon glow the place balloons are inflated and lit up like big lanterns. Thereis additionally the twelfth Annual Operating with the Balloons 5K Race.

Mass scorching air balloon ascensions of as much as 100 balloons are scheduled twice every day at 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

For extra data go to New Jersey Lottery Competition of Ballooning web site.

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