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Yes, it's fun to watch a balloon float away, but your love for our planet should take precedence over a few feelings a balloon release brings.

The U.S. Navy has shared up-close photos of them retrieving the "Chinese Balloon" from the ocean.

The United States on Saturday downed a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America and became the latest flashpoint in tensions between Washington and Beijing.

China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite U.S. suspicion it was spying. The discovery further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington.

The U.S. is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said Thursday.

Here's the bottom line: balloon releases are selfish and illegal, and should be discontinued.