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The balloon brought Americans out to squint at the sky, caused a diplomatic visit to be canceled and opened a political debate.

The balloon, spotted earlier this week over the western United States, was brought down when an F-22 fighter jet fired an air-to-air missile at it off the coast of South Carolina.

For beach-walking South Carolinians, it would have been quite the Saturday afternoon spectacle.