I saw a hot air balloon nearby my house this morning

Nifty. I've never seen one in person.

Fun! I remember chasing hot air balloons as a kid. This was back before our city was overdeveloped and they flew over open land. My dad would load us in the car and we would try to watch them land. So cool.

That's cool!

Only thing that can top that was a paraglider I saw flying over to the nearby mcdonalds.

I live in an area where hot air ballooning is somewhat popular. A few times a year if the windows are open you can hear the whoosh sound of the burners firing when they go overhead. Especially on an early summer morning.

The only thing I see are airplanes that fly by.

I wonder where they going is the on thing that goes to my mind.

The way u said "Then i realized it sounded like a hot air balloon" made me laugh, like, how often do u see a hot air balloon anyway?

If you'd had a look on planefinder.net you might have been able to see where it had flown from and tracked it in real time to wherever it was going.

That site uses transponders on aircraft to track their position, altitude and speed. My understanding is that balloons aren't required to have transponders since they're mainly used for collision avoidance, balloons stay at fairly low altitudes, they only fly in good visibility and it's pretty damn hard for a pilot who's actually looking out his windscreen to miss a bloody huge balloon. But I have occasionally seen hot air balloons on that website.

I didn't spot any balloons in the air over New Zealand when I just checked (Sunday morning your time), but I did just watch a small twin-engine plane do its take off roll down the runway of Auckland International and head off to the northeast, and an Air New Zealand flight to Perth take off.

If you're at all interested in aviation, it's a cool website to waste some time on. One thing that's interesting at the moment is the patterns you can see in eastern Europe, where there's always a huge vacant space around Ukraine, and during the working week steady streams of planes on either side. (I'm not saying nothing's in the air in Ukraine - military planes usually switch off their transponders for obvious reasons.) If you click on a plane its previous track is shown, and selecting flights heading towards Moscow can result in some ridiculously convoluted tracks that have to be at least twice as long as a straight-line flight.

I'm more interested in UFO sightings.

i get the med flight choppers goin by quite often

sometimes military jets playin in the mountains

never seen a balloon at home though

Yay!

Kinda sad, really.... that it was "the best experience ever"

But still "Yay!"