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Two people were taken to a hospital with minor injuries Wednesday morning after the hot air balloon they were riding in made a hard landing聽in a parking lot at聽Lockheed Martin’s facility in Waterton Canyon.

Mark Stokes, a battalion chief with Littleton Fire Rescue, said a third person aboard the balloon walked away without injuries. He said the hard landing about 7 a.m. was prompted by shift in the wind.

“The wind shift forced them down,” Stokes said. “It landed in the parking lot a little hard.”

Stokes said, overall, that the incident was relatively minor.

Matt Kramer, a Lockheed Martin spokesman, said the aerospace company’s security personnel responded to the hard landing alongside firefighters.