Balloonfest (2017)

MidMissouri cult hero Nathan Truesdell sifts through a Cleveland TV stations archives and unearths a fancy wrist watch blistered fingers and other casualties of a misbegotten exercise in civic pride In September 1986 the city of Cleveland attempted to set a special record the simultaneous launch of 15 million balloons But fate intervened and the result was both crazier and more tragic than anyone could have imagined