The X-Files took believers seriously and mined UFO myths to play off our fears and suspicions.
Books, movies, and television help alien seekers conceptualize what an encounter could potentially look like.
Carters persistent mantra in the early years was that the show had to be scientifically plausible.
This meant that a lot of the research was pulled from real UFOlogy archives.
What is known about the incident is that an event took place in July of 1947.
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Major Jesse A. Marcel was the head of 509thBomb group intelligence office at the time of the incident.
That account would have indicated a significant amount of debris.
The series had an obvious parallel to the plight of theX-Filesiconic villain.
Our job was to secretly prepare the way for their invasion.
To create for them a race of human-alien hybrids.
They were good plans, right plans.
Kept secret for over fifty years, ever since the crash at Roswell.
It has also been argued that such reverse-engineering gave the United States leverage with such contact.
Deep Throat certainly suggested the Military use of reverse-engineering in season ones second episode.
The Military saw a good thing in 47 when the Roswell story broke.
The more we denied it, the more people believed it was true.
Aliens had landed a made-to-order cover story for generals looking to develop the national war chest.
All of these points are part of the historical lore.
The Arnold sighting is notable.
The objects approached Mount Rainier at a very high speed, some of them changing or dipping direction.
He realized they were moving much too fast to be a flock of birds.
Upon landing in Yakima, Arnold described what he had witnessed to his fellow pilots.
He would later describe them as half-moon-shaped oval in front and convex in the rear.
Another key sighting that was visually referenced in the My Struggle teaser was theMaury Island incident.
They estimated it was about 2,000 feet (600 m) above the water at the Puget Sound.
They estimated that the objects were about 100 feet wide with a 25-foot hole in the middle.
While landing on the beach of Maury Island, Dahl took several photographs.
One of the ships appeared to be trying to repair the other ship.
Dahl and others collected sample evidence and took it back to Tacoma to his boss, Fred Crissman.
Soon, Kenneth Arnold was investigating the incident, and within days had his own encounter.
Lastly, there was the incident in Washington from 1952.
As the nuclear age developed through the 50s, the ratio ofUFO activity seemed to increase.
These cases would evolve and become more complicated, and many themes were cited and explored onThe X-Files.
This cross pollination helped to shape the science and speculation that detailed the series.
Indeed, The truth is often stranger than fiction.
He lives in San Francisco, CA.
This article originally ran in November 2016.
