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After a week adrift, a surveillance balloon from China has been deflated. Here's what we know about the suspect device and its mission.

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The United States on Saturday shot down a balloon spotted floating over the nation and parts of Canada this week that officials said was a Chinese surveillance device.
While China maintains the balloon was a civilian airship „used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes,“ Pentagon officials say it was „being used by the PRC in an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States.

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