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Fringey Mini: Xi-Files · Journey to the Fringe

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  Okay, Chelsea, this... See, I think originally,
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  when you hear what I do here, you're gonna be
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  upset, but at the end of it, you usually are
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  pretty happy with how this goes. This is a, you
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  don't get to pick, kind of fringy many. Are you
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  ever gonna let me pick again? How dare you even
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  ask such a thing? The reason I do it this way
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  is because I found this article headline, and
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  I immediately knew... That this was what fringy
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  minis were meant for okay i do enjoy that so
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  i don't know that we ever had a choice to begin
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  with and i don't know why not picking makes me
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  so uneasy but i should just trust that you know
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  what you're doing pretty happy with the whole
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  circumstance it's true so so let's go for it
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  okay. So this comes, I've never heard of this
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  website before, but again, this is based on the
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  headline that we have to read this. Those are
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  the best websites once we've never heard of before.
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  O -V -N -I -O -L -O -G -I -A dot com dot VR.
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  So OVNEOLOGIA dot com. Oh, that sounds reputable.
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  Yeah, yeah. And its logo is a gray alien head.
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  So. Oh, I already love it. Yes, article title.
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  A UFO was shot down in China yesterday, article
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  last updated September 13, 2025. Some Chinese
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  media reported today that an unknown object was
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  intercepted in Shandong province. Images quickly
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  spread across local video platforms. Residents
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  of several areas in Shandong province, mainland
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  China witnessed a rare aerial phenomenon. night
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  of September 12th. Many witnesses reported seeing
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  a bright point of light moving rapidly across
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  the sky followed by two loud booms and visible
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  flashes. Videos recorded by locals were quickly
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  shared online drawing widespread attention on
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  Chinese social media. According to the newspaper,
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  China Blue News, Witnesses described initially
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  spotting an object moving at high speed in a
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  parabolic trajectory. Huh. Apparently the Chinese
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  are way better at their math. Not meant in a
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  racist way, but like I couldn't describe something
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  as a parabolic. I was actually just gonna comment,
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  what the hell does parabolic mean? Doesn't that
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  kind of mean like a slight arc? Isn't a parabola
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  like a lens shape? No idea, actually. I'll let
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  Chelsea Google that while I keep going. Moments
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  later, a second, luminous object appears from
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  another direction. As the two cross paths in
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  the sky, there is a bright flash and a deafening
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  explosion. So intense that some residents initially
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  thought it was thunder or a detonation. Not two
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  options I would generally have when I hear a
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  noise. Like, either thunder or an explosion.
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  Yeah, I mean, you could just be barely paying
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  attention and it could border, I could see it,
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  I could see it. I guess, yeah, I would have to
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  be in that circumstance, but I just can't, for
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  the life of me, think of being in a situation
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  where I'm not really sure if that was thunder
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  or explosion. Yeah, no, I'm with you on that
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  one, actually, because thunder's pretty, though
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  I've... According to Yahoo News, military experts
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  stated that based on the characteristics reported,
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  the event was most likely a missile interception
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  test. The first object was probably a simulated
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  target missile, while the second was an interceptor.
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  These tests are conducted to assess the effectiveness
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  of air defense systems, particularly terminal
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  missile interception technology. Some locals
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  reacted with understanding. Quote, another joked
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  quote, What does that mean? I don't know. We
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  might have to know a bit more about what's going
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  on in China for that. I was just going to say,
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  I think there's some cultural stuff we're not
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  going to quite grasp here. I'm just happy they've
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  translated it at least to English. On social
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  media, alternative theories began to emerge.
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  Some users suggested it could have been space
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  debris re -entering the atmosphere such as remains
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  of satellites or rockets. Similar incidents occurred
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  in 2023 when debris was seen over Jinan, Shandong,
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  and in Mei this year in Anhui province. However,
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  many pointed out that the footage clearly shows
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  an object being shot down, fueling speculation.
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  Quote, it could have been a drone secretly filming
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  a military base that got taken down. No foreign
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  drone would dare violate Chinese airspace like
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  that. Could a drone even produce such a bright
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  light? It looked like something straight out
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  of Star Wars. End quote. I should say those are
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  all separate quotes. I just got real lazy with
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  this. That's fine. That's what we do. And they
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  also, just so we can all be on the same page
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  of understanding. These quotes are within their
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  own little picture, which has quotes at each
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  side at the end, and then there's quotes within
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  this picture. So it's not fair for me as a reader
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  reading it to you. I barely grasped that. All
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  I understood was there's a lot of quotes. A lot
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  of quotation marks. According to sinchu .com,
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  no official statement has been issued so far
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  and major Chinese media have not released further
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  details. Experts emphasize that major military
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  powers around the world regularly conduct such
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  tests as part of national defense strategies.
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  These exercises are not necessarily aimed at
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  a specific country, but are intended to improve
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  a nation's defense capabilities. I would add
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  that yeah, they do do that. Generally, they warn
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  the public. Or at least have some kind of statement
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  on it. In China? For now the incident remains
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  shrouded. I mean most places, do they not? Like
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  if they're gonna do something military -based,
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  give a warning to the area so they don't think
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  they're at war? I don't know. And I certainly
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  do not know about China. Like even especially
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  like with the Arizona lights, they had to come
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  out the next day and say like, oh yeah, there
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  was training going on. Oh yeah, we forgot. So
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  nobody's too scared. Yeah, I guess. I have no
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  idea. Especially if you're going to be firing
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  missiles over top of your population that are
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  exploding. I guess that would be logical. I guess
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  I've just never been in that situation either.
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  Yeah, all sorts of Chinese situations these countries
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  people find themselves in. Is it thunder? Is
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  it an explosion? Is the government going to be
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  telling me this? I don't know. Do they tell us
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  about military drills? No idea. For now, the
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  incident remains shrouded in mystery with some
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  believing it was just a routine military test
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  while others suspect that something truly unknown
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  may have been shot down in the skies over China.
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  And then there is an update. The Chinese military
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  officer Zhao Da Shuai who is very active on the
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  X platform shared a video showing the incident.
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  In her post description she referred to the episode
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  as quote an interception of something and quote
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  the Chinese government without saying what that
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  something might be. Quote something was intercepted
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  by our air defense system off the coast of Shandong
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  facing the Korean peninsula. end quote and oh
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  that's a good quote Chelsea I do have to share
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  this right now just because this is pretty great
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  it is X but it's on the web page so I don't think
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  they get a share from me or whatever you would
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  call it this is pretty amazing Chelsea make sure
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  your sounds nice and loud why Was that coming
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  from a UFO? No wonder they didn't know it was
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  an explosion or thunder. It's even more intriguing
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  than I originally thought. I wonder if that's
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  part of her job for the Chinese government, adding
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  dubstep. Or at least some kind of house music.
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  Ah, that was good stuff. Song of the Chinese
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  military. I don't think I actually processed
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  what I was seeing. I had to jam out when I heard
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  that. Just start dancing. Oh, okay, what happened?
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  Okay, I don't know. Something happened. The Chinese
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  government is good is what I got from that. All
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  hail the Chinese government. May it live a thousand
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  years, or at least over the next 48 hours, until
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  we see you guys again. Anyhow. We were all thinking
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  it. Bye.