Article 620VE 'We thought it was a shooting star': uncontrolled Chinese rocket fragments seen in Malaysia – video

'We thought it was a shooting star': uncontrolled Chinese rocket fragments seen in Malaysia – video

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A Chinese booster rocket has made an uncontrolled return to Earth. US defence department officials have chided Beijing for not sharing information on the potentially hazardous object's descent. The Long March 5B rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere over the Indian ocean on Saturday. People in several parts of Malaysia reported seeing the fragments. 'At first we thought it was a shooting star,' said Aizul Sidek, who was in the city of Kuching in Sarawak state when he captured footage with his smartphone

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