Residents of Taiwan's Kinmen Islands spotted an object in the sky on Tuesday evening, which is now believed to have been a Long March series aerospace rocket launched by China.
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00:00People in Taiwan's Jinmen Islands have mistaken a Chinese rocket for a comet.
00:06Astronomy fans had been monitoring a comet expected to make a rare appearance when they
00:10caught the object on camera.
00:12But astronomers in Taipei say the footage showed it was brighter and faster than comets
00:16tend to travel.
00:17The defense ministry says it monitored the launch of a Chinese rocket from Shaanxi province,
00:38but it didn't pass through Taiwan's airspace.