THE Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) on Tuesday issued a clarification regarding the sighting of an unidentified falling object in the atmosphere followed by an explosion in Bataraza and Rizal towns in Palawan on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023.

"PhilSA would like to clarify that the phenomenon is highly unlikely to be related to the Long March 7A and the Long March 3B rockets," PhilSA's Space Technology Missions and Systems Bureau director Marc Caesar Talampas told The Manila Times.

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