Debris from failed Russian rocket launch causes UFO frenzy in northeastern China

Special to WorldTribune.com

By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com

Willy Lam is away this week.

Video clips of bright celestial objects falling from the sky caused sensational excitement and popular befuddlement in Helongjiang province in the northeastern most region of China.

Debris from a failed Russian rocket is seen over northeastern China.
Debris from a Russian rocket is seen over northeastern China.

It turned out however that the objects were burning debris from a failed Russian rocket launched more than 2,700 miles away in Southwest Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome minutes earlier in the early hours of May 16.

While remaining mum on these “UFOs” inside China, Russian space officials denied that any large sized rocket debris could be big enough to cause any damage on the Earth.

But NASA subsequently confirmed that the debris inside China was indeed parts of the failed Russian Proton-M rocket launch [See Geostrategy-Direct.com, Backgrounder, May 28, 2014].

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