Katy Perry experienced a frightening onstage mishap Friday night during her Lifetimes Tour stop at the Chase Center in San Francisco. While performing her hit song “Roar,” the pop star was seated atop a large butterfly-shaped prop that was designed to fly above the crowd.

A scary moment occurred late in Katy Perry’s sold-out concert at Chase Center in San Francisco on Friday. It happened during one of the Perry’s (roughly) 278,433 aerial/high-rise sequences in the show, as the superstar boarded a giant black mechanical butterfly and soared off high above the crowd during the anthem “Roar.”

Katy Perry’s “The Lifetimes Tour” is now underway, bringing the “Teenage Dream” pop singer to Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan on Sunday, August 3.

Katy Perry tried to hold her "composure" while singing "Not Like the Movies" at her tour stop in Inglewood, Calif. Perry is currently on the road for her Lifetimes Tour, which concludes in December

Katy Perry and opener Rebecca Black took the stage to a sold-out crowd at Anaheim’s Honda Center on Sunday, July 13.