Prehistory to
1970
Fourteen Billion Years Ago
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The Big Bang,
creating the universe. Within a billion years, the Milky Way Galaxy
forms. (The latest cosmological research provides the estimate of
14 billion years, plus or minus 1/2 billion years.)
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Five Billion Years
Ago
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The sun ignites and
Earth is formed.
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Four and a Half
Billion Years Ago
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A rock is blasted
off the surface of Mars by a meteor impact. After floating in space,
it eventually enters the atmosphere of Earth, and lands in Siberia.
It contains dormant biological organisms capable of entering living
bodies. (Terma and NASA)
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Millions of Years
Ago, or more
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A virus sometimes
known as the Black Oil and that has the ability to take control of
humanoid species is the "original inhabitant" of the
planet Earth, according to the Well Manicured Man. He adds that
aliens came, also apparently millions of years ago. Those that didn't
leave have been dormant since the last Ice Age, waiting for the
Colonists. (Movie)
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250,000 years ago
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A meteor crashes
into Icy Point, Alaska, far north of the Arctic Circle. It carries
several extraterrestrial organisms similar to worms that are native
to a cold ammonia environment. The worms have the ability to enter a
human body and cause the release of chemicals resulting in
aggression. Two of the worms, however, will not reside in the same
body without killing each other. (Ice)
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35,000 B.C.
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Two human hunters
follow a line of footprints through the snow and enter an ice cave
in what is now northern Texas, during the last ice age. The
footprints are three-toed, implying that they are not human. Inside
the cave, they find another of their kind, encased in ice. They are
attacked by a highly aggressive creature -- an alien. The alien is
hard to see, but is based on a reptilian "grey" alien. The
first human is killed, but the second kills the alien. Black Oil
pours out of the dead alien and enters the body of the human. (Movie)
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Circa 200 B.C. to 200
A.D.
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Ancient Celtic
legends tell of trickster Men in Black who used enchantment. (José
Chung's 'From Outer Space')
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Circa 30 A.D.
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According to a
religious legend heard by Dana Scully as a child in Catholic school,
when Jesus raises Lazarous from the dead (see The Bible) a clay pot
is being turned on a wheel nearby and the grooves in the clay
capture the vibrations of the air made by the voice of Jesus. Sister
"Spooky" Callahan claims to Dana that the bowl is imbued
with the power to raise the dead. (Hollywood A.D.)
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Circa 1200
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According to Mulder,
reports of mysterious lights around Brown Mountain go back this far,
although the literature is vague about how this date was established.
There are no written records this old and the date is derived from
Indian legend. The first written report by a white man will be in
1771. According to Indian legend, a great battle is fought around
now between the Cherokee and Catawba Indians near Brown Mountain.
The Cherokees believed that the lights were the spirits of Indian
maidens who went on searching through the centuries for their
husbands and sweethearts who had died in the battle. (Historical)
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Circa 1300
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The Anasazi culture
disappears in the Southwest. Attacked or invaded by aliens, some of
their elders hide in one particular pueblo that contains magnetite,
protecting them from the aliens. The Cigarette Smoking Man thinks of
these elders as "the first shadow government," similar to
US government plans for a shadow government retreat at the Mount
Weather Complex in Virginia in 2012, when the new alien invasion
takes place. (The Truth)
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Circa 1400
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A colony of tree
mites infects a tree in what will someday be the Olympia National
Forest of northwest Washington state. They continue to survive
inside the tree as the years pass, and additional tree rings
surround them. The insects cocoon their prey and drain the fluids,
attacking prey as large as humans. Wherever the insects swarm, an
oily residue is left behind. (Darkness Falls)
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In the 15th century,
a French peasant girl encounters an old Moor, selling rugs. She
discovers that a powerful genie lives in one rug, and makes three
wishes -- for a stout hearted mule, a magic sack that would always
be filled with turnips, and to be long-lived and powerful. In
response to this last wish, genie makes the girl a genie, herself,
and she takes up residence in a rug. She soon, however, becomes
disillusioned by the greed and lack of forethought by people to whom
she owes wishes, and begins to enjoy perverting their wishes, when
they are not specific. (Je Souhaite)
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1513
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Juan Ponce de Leon
makes his first exploration in Florida, seeking the legendary "fountain
of youth." Instead he finds death by an Indian arrow. (Historical)
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Mulder speculates
that if anyone actually found the Fountain of Youth and remained
living in the forest, they might have adapted to their environment,
and become significantly changed. He feels X-Files about "Moth
Men" may refer to those who drank from the Fountain of Youth. (Detour)
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1771
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Geraud de Brahm, a
German engineer and the first white man to explore the region now
known as North Carolina reports what has come to be known as the
"Brown Mountain Lights." The lights, also reported in
Indian legend, are described as dancing, flickering, and darting.
Sometimes at night they seem to drift slowly, fading and brightening.
At other times they seem to whirl like pinwheels, then dart rapidly
away. Brown Mountain is located in Burke County, between Morganton
and Lenoir, in the western part of North Carolina. (Historical)
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Circa 1800
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Contradictory
evidence suggests that around this year an Extraterrestrial
Biological Entity may have been frozen in ice near a glacier in the
Yukon Territory. The body found there in 1997 may also be a hoax. (Gethsemane)
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1805
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Members of the
Lewis and Clark expedition, exploring the Northwest, write of Indian
men who are able to change their shape into that of a wolf. (Shapes)
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Just after entering
what is now South Dakota, Lewis and Clark visit "Spirit Mound,"
an isolated hill, alone in the middle of the plains. Indians who
live in the area refuse to approach Spirit Mound, because they say
it is the home of "little devils with large heads, whose arrows
can kill at an unusual distance." Lewis and Clark find no
evidence of little beings with large heads, alien or otherwise. In
spite of efforts of local residents over several decades to make
Spirit Mound a state park, it remains under the private ownership of
a farmer, until the turn of the century when it finally becomes a
state park. (The Journals of Lewis and Clark and current accounts)
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April 4, 1849
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The recorded date
of birth of L.H. Rice, pseudonym of Alfred Fellig. This may be
Fellig's actual birth, but because he used a series of false
identities, it may be a false entry. (Tithonus)
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1850
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Around this year,
the Chinese Wanshang Dhole wild dog is believed to become extinct.
The dog, a scavenger, is also the basis for Chinese myth and legend
which calls it a trickster dog, able to open doors, steal wives and
disappear into thin air. The Wangshang Dhole may also be related to
a form of Chinese werewolf, which does not become extinct. (Alpha)
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1855
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Yellow Fever,
spread by mosquitoes, kills many people in the United States as far
north as Boston. This is the last of several epidemics of Yellow
Fever to impact New York, although the last great Yellow Fever
epidemic takes place in New Orleans in 1878. (Historical Accounts)
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L.H. Rice is
hospitalized in an epidemic ward and expects to die. He believes he
sees a glimpse of Death walking through the ward, taking the souls.
He closes his eyes and refuses to look at Death, and his nurse died
instead of him. He recovers from Yellow Fever and finds himself to
be immortal. (Tithonus)
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November 23, 1863
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Union troops,
having held Chattanooga, Tennessee, since September, join 60,000
other Union troops to attempt to capture the countryside around the
city. After two days, Confederate forces still hold Missionary Ridge,
southeast of Chattanooga, until the Union's General George H. Thomas
moves in to relieve General Sherman, taking the ridge in the process.
(Historical accounts.)
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November 26, 1863
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Confederate soldier
Sullivan Biddle dies in a battle with Union troops in Hamilton
County Tennessee, when Union troops of General Thomas catch up with
the retreating forces of Confederate General Clayborn near Apison
House. Biddle's lover, nurse Sarah Kavanaugh hides nearby in a
bunker. 133 years later, Fox Mulder comes to believe he was Biddle
in a previous life. (The Field Where I Died)
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1864
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The Peacock family
builds a farm in Home, Pennsylvania, and begins (or maybe continues)
a practice of genetic inbreeding. (Home)
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November 3, 1868
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Four coal miners
accused to killing a prospector in a claim dispute are acquitted in
court. The dead man was found with his skin completely removed,
apparently while he was still alive, near the Fitzgerald Mine near
Novi, Virginia. The prosecutor says that justice was not served. (Hellbound)
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Late 1800s
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A religious sect
settles near Steveston, Massachusetts. They believe in complete
isolation from other people, except for the occasional visit to the
Steveston feed store. Actually, they (apparently) are aliens, with
the ability to change sex and to emit massive amounts of pheromones
that can, among other things, create extreme sexual desire in humans.
(Genderbender)
There is limited
evidence that other enclaves of aliens may exist in other parts of
the country, such as Georgia. (The Unnatural)
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1882
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Marjorie Butters is
born, according to the claim of the Smoking Man in the episode En
Ami. She will still be alive in the year 2000, and will be offered
as proof that the Smoking Man has technology that can end human
disease and prolong life.
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January 1, 1895
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J. Edgar Hoover is
born. (Historical)
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1902
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Walter Chaco is
born. (Our Town)
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1903
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Eugene Victor Tooms
commits a series of five murders in the Baltimore area, but is not
captured. An apparent genetic mutation, Tooms has the ability to
hibernate and to stretch his body. He begins a pattern of awakening
from hibernation every 30 years. His goal in each murder is to
extract the liver of each victim. (Squeeze)
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1908
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The US Government
Special Agent Force is renamed the Bureau of Investigation. (Historical)
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June 30, 1908
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At Tunguska, in
Russian Siberia, a huge explosion occurs, laying waste to a huge
geographic area. No scientific study team reaches the site until
1927. It finds fallen trees in a pattern radiating outward from a
central point. No crater is found. It is generally considered to be
an explosion of a very large meteor or a small comet. (Historical)
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Dr. Alexander
Kazentsev is a member of the Russian scientific team and is struck
that immediately under the center of the explosion, the tops of
trees are missing, whereas their trunks are still standing.
Surrounding them, trees are down in uniform directions, radiating
out from the central point. Years later, he later studies the damage
after the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, and finds tree trunks with
their tops missing directly under the coordinates of the aerial bomb
explosion, and trees farther away down in a radial pattern.
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He returns to
Tunguska in another expedition and finds radioactivity in the soil,
as well as fragments of metal that appear to be alloyed. In his
official report on the new expedition, Kazentsev concludes that the
1908 explosion was nuclear in nature, slightly more than a mile
above the ground, and was the result of the explosion of "some
very large artificial construction weighing in excess of 50,000
tons, which was being directed toward a landing when its atomic
engines exploded." (Details from Stranger Than Science by Frank
Edwards, copyright 1959, Bantam books)
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September 27, 1909
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A lawman disappears
after failing to find the person who killed four others by skinning
them alive. The lawman is the reincarnated victim of an 1868 murder
in which he was skinned alive. The four 1909 victims are the
reincarneted sould of the four 1868 murderers. A fifth person tries
to prevent the murders but fails. (Hellbound)
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1917
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Harry Cokley is
born in southeast Nebraska. He is the only son with five sisters. He
is often beaten by his father. (Aubrey)
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December 24, 1917
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In Maryland, young
lovers Maurice and Lyla die in a murder-suicide pact because they
are anguished by World War I and the great flu epidemic that is
killing thousands of people across the country. Their pact is to
always spend Christmas Eve together, even after death. They become
ghosts, often haunting residents of the mansion as the result of
their belief that murder-suicide is the greatest possible expression
of love and togetherness. Over the next 80 years three additional
murder-suicides occur in the mansion, always on Christmas Eve. A
book is eventually written about Maurice and Lyla's deaths, "How
the Ghosts Stole Christmas" by R. Grimes. (How the Ghosts Stole
Christmas)
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1925
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J. Edgar Hoover
becomes Director of the Bureau of Investigation, later renamed the
FBI. (Historical)
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The Well Manicured
Man is born, based on age of actor John Neville.
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Arthur Dales is
born, based on age of Darrin McGavin, and the fact that the young
Dales in Travelers looked like he was in his early to mid-thirties.
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Albert Hosteen is
born, in Navaho land. He will one day become an elder and mystic in
his tribe. (Date estimated by his service in World War II and by
his apparent age at the time of his death in 1999.)(Amor Fati.)
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July 21, 1929
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Photographer Lewis
Brady is convicted for the murder of two people. Lewis Brady is a
pseudonym for Alfred Fellig, aka L.H. Rice, an immortal man who
hoped to encounter Death as his victims died. He later walks away
from a prison facility and is never recaptured.(Tithonus)
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1930s
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Eddie Van Blundht,
Sr., is born with a vestigial tail and a unique layer of voluntary
muscle under his entire layer of skin, which allows him to "make
faces" and appear to be other people. (Small Potatoes)
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1930
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A Trego Indian boy
named Ish is born.(Shapes)
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1931
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Circa this date,
Cigarette Smoking Man is born. (Based on being an adult in 1953,
as seen in 731.)
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1932
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The Bureau of
Investigation is renamed the US Bureau of Investigation, later to be
called the Federal bureau of Investigation. (Historical)
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March 1, 1932
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The abduction of
Charles Lindbergh Junior from his bedroom, called by many the
"crime of the century." The Bureau of Investigation
participates in the investigation. A badly decomposed child's body
is found May 12 and publicly identified as that of Charles Junior,
although the medical examiner refuses to make a positive
identification. Bruno Richard Hauptmann is eventually arrested,
tried and executed for the abduction. Questions persist for decades
that suggest his innocence. (Historical)
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1933
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Tooms commits his
second series of five murders, in Powhattan Mill, but is not
captured. Only four of the bodies are found, because one is buried
in the concrete floor of a factory. Among the investigators is a
young officer named Frank Briggs. The crime haunts him for the rest
of his life. (Tooms) (The Tooms crimes may be based on the
Halls-Mill Murders, in October 1922 -- an infamous serial murder
case in New Jersey that was never solved.)
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1934
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A WPA logging crew
vanishes in the Olympic National Forest in northwest Washington. (Darkness
Falls)
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Amy Cassandra is
born. She will eventually believe that she is the victim of alien
abductions. (Demons)
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Circa 1935
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A series of
photographs is taken of The Kindred, a sect of religious
isolationists in Pennsylvania. In 1994, many of the same faces will
be seen on the Kindred farm. They are apparently from another world.
(Genderbender)
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July 1, 1935
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The US Bureau of
Investigation is renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Historical)
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Finger prints are
taken of Henry Strand, which in 1999 Mulder finds match those of
Alfred Fellig and Lewis Brady. (Tithonus)
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1936
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Bill Mulder is born.
Based on the cemetary marker in Within. Note, however, that other
episodes indicate that he was a military or intelligence officer
circa 1952-53, sugesting a birth date ten or more years earlier.
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Josh Exley is born
in the Macon, Georgia, area. He will disappear at age 6. (The
Unnatural)
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September 3, 1939
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Britain declares
war on Germany after Germany invades Poland. (Historical)
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Southwest of the
Bahamas, the British ship SS Queen Anne is boarded reported sunk by
a German torpedo. Mulder believes that it entered the Bermuda
Triangle and became caught in a time warp. In events that may be
real or may be a dream, Mulder visits the ship in 1939 and learns
that the German troops boarded the ship after picking up a radio
message using the code word "Thor's Hammer." Initially
they believe that the ship has left America with armaments but they
learn that Thor's Hammer refers to a scientist who has expertise to
build an atomic bomb. (See the entry for Triangle on November 16,
1998, for more details.)
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September 27, 1939
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Warsaw, Poland,
surrenders to the Nazi blitzkrieg. (Historical)
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Mulder believes he
lives a previous life as a Jewish woman in the Warsaw ghetto. (The
Field in Which I Died)
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1940s
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Benito Mussolini
acquires a rug in which lives a genie, allowing him to become
powerful. In the end, however, the genie brings about his
destruction because his wishes are not specific enough. (Je Souhaite)
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Scientists of
Germany's Third Reich conduct a series of experiments on unwilling
human subjects. Generally reviled as inhumane and barbaric, they
were intended to be the basis for a eugenics program to improve the
race. (Historical)
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After Germany
surrenders, many of the scientists of the German eugenics program
are brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip. (Historical)
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A German
industrialist named Strughold flees Germany, apparently after the
downfall of the Reich. He takes up residence in Tunis. (Movie) (Note
that exactly when Strughold fled Germany is vague. Instead of the
end of WWII it is possible that it happened later and with different
circumstances, such as from postwar Communist East Germany. )
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Reader Erik
Pflueger provides the information that this character is likely a
reference to Hubertus Strughold, a real-life German scientist whose
work, because of Operation Paper Clip, aided the American space
program, at the cost of Jewish lives.
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1940
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Margaret Scully is
born circa this year.
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August 20, 1940
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In Mexico City, a
Stalinist agent assassinates Leon Trotsky. (Historical)
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Frohike believes
that at that same moment, the person to be known as the Cigarette
Smoking Man is born, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (This date is not
possible, since the Smoking Man and Bill Mulder were adults in 1953,
seen in 731.)
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Frohike later
relates to Mulder and Scully the information the Cigarette Smoking
Man writes about his character in the story A Second Chance. Some
elements may be semi-autobiographical. According to the story, as
published in 1996 in "Roman a Clef" magazine, Cigarette
Smoking Man/Jack Colquitt's father is an ardent communist activist,
keeping the Soviet Union informed about American plans to enter
World War II. The man was executed in a Louisiana electric chair
under the espionage act of 1917, before his son could walk. His
mother died of lung cancer before her son was old enough to talk.
The child becomes a ward of the state, sent to various orphanages
around the Midwest. He makes few friends and spends all of his free
time alone, reading. (Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man)
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1941
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Teena Mulder is
born. (Based on the cemetery marker in Within. Note that the
spelling of her name is sometimes also seen as "Tina.")
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1941?
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The Philadelphia
Experiment may have begun as early as this year. Scully later says
it was an effort to make battleships invisible to radar during World
War II, but as the Manhattan Project heated up, it was de-emphasized.
She says most of the scientists were relocated to Los Alamos, but
Mulder claims most never made it there, and were transferred to
Roswell, New Mexico instead. Mulder has also suggested that the
Philadelphia Experiment reportedly caused the USS Eldridge to
disappear from Philadelphia and reappear in Norfolk, Virginia, after
the Roswell incident in 1947. (Dod Kalm) Other popular accounts
suggest that it was in 1943 and that the ship disappeared in Norfolk
and reappeared in Philadelphia. Some suggest that it teleported and
some that it sailed while invisible. All accounts say that crew on
the ship suffered or died as the result of the experiment.
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The father of the
Cigarette Smoking Man is executed in Louisiana, for espionage. The
young Cigarette Smoking Man becomes an orphan.(If you believe
Musings...)
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1942
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A Japanese medical
unit, 731, conducts human experimentation similar to that of German
Victor Klemper, experimenting on human subjects. Takeo Ishimaru is a
leader of the effort.(731)
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FBI Special Agents
Sam Chaney and Tim Ledbetter disappear in Aubrey, Missouri, while
investigating three rape/murders in which the word "sister"
was slashed across the chests of the victims. The partners use
psychology to solve crimes years before the FBI accepts the
technique. It is learned years later that they were killed by Harry
Cokley, then a resident of Terrance, Nebraska, an hour's drive away.
Chaney was buried in a field and Ledbetter in the basement of the
house in which Cokley lived at the time. (Aubrey)
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Also sometime in
1942 six year old Josh Exley disappears from Macon, Georgia. At
about the same time, an adult black man calling himself Josh Exley
shows up in Roswell, NM, and begins playing baseball in the Cactus
League. The adult Exley is a gray alien, shape-changed to appear
human, because he has fallen in love with the game of baseball. The
aliens do not allow participation in such games and he leaves "his
family" without permission, planning to play in the cactus
league because the scrutiny of the major leagues could compromise
the secret of his background. An alien bounty hunter becomes a Macon
police officer, planted to watch for missing person reports of the
name Josh Exley, since apparently the aliens do not read sports news
about minor league baseball. (The Unnatural)
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1944
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The existence of
DNA is discovered. (Historical)
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A Navy transport
plane carrying 42 year old Walter Chaco is shot down over New Guinea,
and he is the only survivor. He lives with the cannibalistic Jale
tribe for six months before being rescued. He learns from them how
to prolong life by cannibalism. (Our Town)
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Navaho Albert
Hosteen serves in the US military as a "code talker." He
and his fellow Navaho servicemen communicate military message
traffic in their native language, which serves as a "code"
that the Japanese in the Pacific cannot break. (Anasazi)
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1945
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Harry Cokley, of
Terrance, Nebraska, is convicted of rape and attempted murder and
sentenced to McAlister Penitentiary after carving the word "sister"
with razor on the chest of Linda Tibideaux of Edmund, Nebraska.
Tibideaux survives the assault, and has Cokley's son nine months
later. Given up for adoption, the child is given the name Raymond
Morrow. Authorities do not connect the case with Sam Chaney's case
in Aubrey, Missouri, in 1942. (Aubrey)
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April 26, 1945
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The Joint Chiefs of
Staff issue Order 1067 to General Dwight David Eisenhower to
"preserve from destruction and take under your control records,
plans, documents, papers, files and scientific, industrial and other
information and data belonging to...German organizations engaged in
military research." The effort is known as Operation Paper Clip
and includes 127 German scientists and engineers including Werner
von Braun. (Historical)
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Apparently included
in this group is Victor Klemper, who had conducted gruesome
experiments on Jewish prisoners in concentration camps. There are
allegations he may have experimented on combining human and alien
DNA, then or later. (731 & Nisei)
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Early August 1945
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A B-29 transporting
a nuclear bomb similar to those used on Japan, and an escort
squadron of P-51 Mustangs, crash after an encounter with a
triangular-shaped UFO, known to pilots as a Foo Fighter, that also
crashes, at 171E, 42N, part way between the western Hawaiian Islands
and the Aleutians. (Date is based on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
bombings, followed by Japanese surrender August 14, 1945.)
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The United States
submarine Zeus Faber, under Captain Sandford and XO Johansen, is
dispatched to locate the planes, which it does. When a Japanese
destroyer approaches, the submarine hides on silent running, and
crew members develop radiation burns. Sandford is taken over by an
alien that can occupy human bodies, and appears to the crew to be
acting irrationally. The alien resides in 50 weight diesel oil, as a
medium. When it occupies a human body, it gives the appearance of
diesel oil within the eyeball.
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Johanson seals the
Captain in the ward room, and takes the submarine back to Pearl
Harbor. The other crew in the ward room kill Sandford, and diesel
oil evacuates the body. Of 144 men, only 7 survive, some of whom are
hospitalized for years. They never receive an explanation. Johansen
remains on active duty, so apparently is not disciplined for
technical mutiny.
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The UFO, the
aircraft and the nuclear bomb are all left in place on the ocean
floor. The alien may or may not have returned to America. (Piper
Maru, Apocrypha, 731 & Nisei)
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Note: Zeus Faber
is the name of a deep sea fish that changes color to blend into its
surroundings.
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September 20, 1945
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German scientists
from the V2 base at Peenemunde in the US under Operation Paper Clip
arrive at Fort Strong, Mass. The first group of seven men includes
Werner von Braun. Many of the Germans are eventually relocated to
White Sands, New Mexico, where 100 captured V2 rockets are
reassembled and tested. (Historical)
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1946
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J. Edgar Hoover
opens the very first Unexplained Phenomenon case, dealing with
lycanthropy. During World War II a series of murders occurs around
the Northwest, including seven in Browning, Montana. Each victim is
ripped to shreds and eaten, as if by a wild animal. Several of the
victims, however, were found at home, as if they had invited their
killer into their homes. In Glacier National Park, authorities
corner what they believe is this animal in a cabin. They shoot it,
but when they enter the cabin to retrieve the dead animal they find
only the body of Richard Watkins. The murders stop. Hoover locks the
cases away in the X-Files, because they are unsolved. A 16 year old
Trego Indian boy named Ish briefly sees the animal transform near
Watkin's house and believes it to be a werewolf. (Shapes)
The Unexplained
Phenomenon cases are initially filed under "U" in the
Washington DC FBI office. They will later be moved to the roomier
"X" drawer and will come to be known as "X-Files".
(Travelers)
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Circa 1946, Walter
Chaco settles in Dudley, Arkansas, and begins building the chicken
processing plant that becomes the major employer in the community.
He slowly begins teaching his neighbors what he learned in New
Guinea about prolonging life via cannibalism. (Our Town)
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December 3, 1946
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Bert and Loretta
Barry's first child is born in Greensboro, NC. The boy, who would
later become an FBI agent as an adult, is christened Duane. (Duane
Berry)
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1947
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An X-File is opened
on the Jersey Devil case after a motorist is dragged off while
changing a tire. The body is eventually found, with one leg eaten
off. A large naked man is cornered in the woods and gunned down. The
autopsy shows human tissue in the man's digestive tract.
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June 24, 1947
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A civilian pilot
flying over the Cascade Mountains in the State of Washington
observes nine flying disc-shaped aircraft traveling in formation at
a high rate of speed. Although this is not the first known sighting
of such objects, it is the first to gain widespread attention in the
public media. Hundreds of reports of sightings of similar objects
follow, leading to the first major "UFO Flap" in the
United States. (Historical)
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June 29-July 2, 1947
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One of two brothers
named Arthur Dales (not the one in the FBI in the 1950s) is a police
officer in Roswell, NM, and is assigned to protect negro baseball
star Josh Exley from racist threats that the game of baseball should
be kept white. Exley plays for an all-negro team called the Roswell
Grays. Dales ends up traveling on the team bus, and at night, in a
lightning storm, Exley's reflection in the bus window appears to be
the image of a gray alien. The next day, during a game, Exley is hit
on the head with a ball and knocked out. He murmers words in an
unknown language and claims to be from Macon, Georgia. Dales finds
green acid on the glove used to cushion Exley's head and sends it
off to be tested. Dales calls the Macon police and learns that Josh
Exley was a six year old child that disappeared about the time Exley
arrived in Roswell. The Macon police officer Dales talks with is
really a bounty hunter. Exley denies to Dales that he was ever in
Macon. Dales thinks Exley "tanked" the game that day
because American League scouts were there and he did not want to be
recruited into the major leagues, because Exley has a secret.
That night, Dales
sees a gray alien in Exley's room, wearing a baseball cap and
holding a bat. Dales faints at the sight, but the alien wakes him up
and tells him he is Exley -- this is his real face. Exley morphs
into a pretty girl to prove his claim. The next day they talk more.
Exley says his people guard their privacy and don't allow
intermingling, but when he discovered baseball he immediately fell
in love. The bounty hunter arrives in Roswell, looking for Exley.
Posing as Exley, he goes to the lab and kills the lab technician who
was testing the acid on the glove. Dales finds Exley and warns him
that a witness claims he killed a man. Exley says he talked "with
his family" and they want him to come home. He leaves,
supposedly to go back home, and several "men in black"
question Dales.
Exley actually,
however, returns to the baseball team and plays a night game. After
a home run, several men in the white sheets of the Ku Klux Klan and
carrying guns ride up on horses. Exley has become a very good player
and the KKK wants to keep the game of baseball white-only. They
threaten Exley, but the white baseball team overcomes the klansmen,
one of whom, knocked unconscious, is seen to be a gray alien.
Everyone else runs off and Exley confronts the bounty hunter, who
quickly awakes. The bounty hunter says he warned Exley and tells him
to show his true face so he can die with honor. Exley does not morph.
Dales drives up as Exley is killed. The bounty hunter escapes and
Dales concentrates on Exley, who is dying. Exley warns Dales that
his blood is like acid, but Dales finds only red blood. Exley
apparently loved the game of baseball so much that it transformed
him into a human, but Mulder can't figure out if the story is
metaphorical. (All events described by Dales to Mulder in The
Unnatural.)
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July 4, 1947
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The alleged Roswell
New Mexico UFO incident, on or about this date. On July 8 a news
release is issued from Roswell Army Air Field claiming to have
recovered a crashed "disk." The following day, however,
another news release says it was actually the remains of a weather
balloon. Eye witness reports that surface later suggest as many as
three UFO landing or crash sites in New Mexico at about this time --
one just north of Roswell, one 75 miles northwest and one 175 miles
west. (Historical accounts.)
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In Requiem, the
Cigarette Smoking Man mentions "Roswell and Corona."
"Corona" is reputed to be the crash site of a second UFO
at about the same time as the Roswell crash. "Corona" may
also be a reference to a secret project conducted in the Roswell
area. "Corona" has been described by the US government as
its first satellite reconnaisance, for which several components were
tested in high altitude balloon flights. High altitude balloons are
often considered by UFO theorists as coverups for UFO incidents.
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Deep Throat later
says that alien DNA was first obtained in 1947, but that Roswell was
a smoke screen, and that a half dozen better samples were obtained
between 1947 and 1994. (The Erlenmeyer Flask)
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In The Unnatural,
Mulder says Josh Exley disappeared without a trace, although he was
seen to be killed by the Bounty Hunter. Did the men in black recover
his body, then stage a UFO hoax to cover their tracks?
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In Two Fathers,
several references are made to "50 years, since Roswell."
Regardless of whether it was a UFO crash or not, apparently contact
is made at Roswell between the alien colonists and the government.
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As a result of
whatever happens at Roswell, a secret government project begins
within the State Department to investigate and study the aliens. The
Project is staffed with German scientists given immunity from war
crimes and allowed to continue the eugenic experiments of the Third
Reich. Japanese scientists also participate in the work. (Anasazi)
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The early
experiments of the scientists were apparently highly unethical,
causing human subjects to be greatly deformed. Eventually these
initial victims, known as "The Merchandise" are gassed to
death and their bodies left in a railroad refrigeration car, buried
in a quarry on the Navaho reservation. Victor Klemper is one of the
German scientists involved in this work. (The Blessing Way)
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Less than nine
months after the Roswell crash, according to Mulder, the scientists
of the Philadelphia Experiment reportedly cause the USS Eldridge to
disappear from Philadelphia and reappear in Norfolk, Virginia.
Mulder believes they were manipulating naturally-occurring wormholes.
(Dod Kalm)
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Deep Throat also
says a super-secret meeting of representatives of many nations meets
in 1947 to agree that any alien survivors of UFO crashes shall be
exterminated. (E.B.E.) At another time, he says this order was from
Security Council Resolution 1013. (Musings...) In light of later
revelations that the aliens are Colonists, intent on the
extermination of enslavement of the human race, this agreement/order
makes sense.
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In End Game, the
Samantha clone claims that two aliens come to Earth in the 1940s and
produced several identical clones as progeny, known later as the
Gregor clones. Samantha claims that the aliens were combining human
and alien DNA in order to eliminate their identical nature. She says
that they believe that the human stewardship of the planet is being
forsaken and that they will become the natural heirs of the planet.
The clone may have been misleading Mulder, but there may also be
some germ of truth in the story.
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September 24, 1947
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It has also often
been reported that in 1947, the Top Secret US Government project
known as Majestic 12, or MJ-12, is created, possibly by a special
classified executive order of President Truman on 24 September,
1947. According to some reports, membership of MJ-12 included Dr.
Detlev Bronk and Dr. Jerome Hunsaker, names mentioned by Dana Scully
in her Senior Thesis. (Popular reports and Musings...)
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January 6, 1948
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Paula Gray is born,
the granddaughter of Walter Chaco, who is in the process of building
his chicken processing plant in Dudley, Arkansas. (Our Town)
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1949
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A royal battleship
disappears between Leeds and Cape Perry, on the 65th parallel
northwest of the British isles. The seas were calm and the weather
sunny. (Dod Kalm)
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Circa this date,
the Cigarette Smoking Man enters the Army. (If you believe Musings...)
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Melvin Frohike is
born, based on the age of actor Tom Braidwood.
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1950s
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In McMinnville,
Oregon, a UFO is photographed above a field. This photograph is the
first picture shown in the X-Files opening credits.
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In Christmas Carol,
Scully dreams that her mother, Margaret, tells about being given a
cross necklace at about the same age by her mother. Given Margaret's
apparent age, and the ages at which her children were born, this
gift was probably given to Margaret by Dana Scully's grandmother in
the 50s.
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Young military
officers Bill Mulder and Alvin Kurtzweil are recruited to "the
Project." Kurtzweil eventually becomes disillusioned, and
leaves. He becomes an OB/GYN doctor, and publishes several books
about doomsday ahead, but he is generally discounted. Bill Mulder
remains with the Project for many years, operating under the cover
of being employed by the State Department. Mulder, however, has
ethical problems with the way the Project is run. (Movie)
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As a "young
man," Navaho Albert Hosteen finds a body in a quarry on his
reservation. It is strangely disfigured and even the buzzards will
not eat it. Albert may not realize that nearby is a buried railroad
refrigeration car containing dozens of similar bodies. (Anasazi, The
Blessing Way, Paperclip)(The date is very uncertain, but it would
presumably be within a few years after the Operation Paperclip
scientists begin their experimentation with human and alien DNA, and
certainly after Roswell in 1947.)
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1952
-
Walter Sergei
Skinner is born. (Date based on the age of actor Mitch Pileggi,
which is consistent with Skinner being in Vietnam at age 18, in
1970. Middle name given in Tunguska.)
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The first
Unexplained File dealing with what comes to be known as the "Moth
Men" case is opened. The case involved primitive-looking men
with glowing red eyes.(Detour)
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1952 ????
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The Unexplained
Files overcrowd the "U" file drawer in the Washington D.C.
FBI office. At some time in 1952 or earlier an enterprising file
clerk moves the files to the roomier "X" drawer, and they
slowly come to be known as "X-Files." (Travelers)
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1952 ????
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Veterans Edward
Skur and two other men are told they need surgery for war wounds. In
reality, German scientists working for the US government graft other
living organisms into their bodies. The organisms occasionally
emerge through their mouths and can dissolve all of the internal
tissue of other people. Out of revenge, Skur begins to plot to kill
the German scientists. (Travelers)
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1952
-
Operatives of the
conspiracy use positions of power in the House Un-American
Activities Committee to pursue their goals. (Travelers)
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June 24, 1952
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One of two brothers
named Arthur Dale (not the one who was a police officer in Roswell,
NM) and his partner, Agent Hayes Michel, arrest Edward Skur for
failing to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee
of the US Congress. Dale is later told that Skur has hung himself in
his jail cell and there are photographs that it is later discovered
are fake. Dale goes to the Skur home to tell Mrs. Skur of her
husband's death, but encounters Edward Skur there. They struggle and
Dale sees something attempting to emerge from Skur's mouth, but
there is a disturbance and Skur runs off. Dale files his report but
the HUAC prosecutor, Mr. Cohn, convinces him to change his report to
not identify Skur, saying that some things must be kept from the
public.
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Skur's name keeps
coming up in Dale's life. He and Michels are called to the home of a
former German scientist who is dead with all of the internal organs
of his body missing. A note Dale finds there summons Dale to a
secret meeting with Bill Mulder who tells him that Skur is a patriot.
He and two other men had something done to them against their will
and Skur wants vengeance. It becomes clear to Dale that HUAC is a
cover-up for a more sinister conspiracy within the American
government. Skur thinks Dale and Michel are part of the plot against
him. Dale calls Michel's home, but Skur has already been there and
Michel is dead. Viewers see some kind of living organism exit Skur's
mouth to kill Michel -- apparently entering his body and destroying
the internal organs.
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Later, when Dale is
at the Michel crime scene, Cohn arrives and proclaims "national
security" to have the body removed. Dale investigates the other
two men identified by Bill Mulder. One, Gissing, was found dead in
the last few days alongside another German scientist, whose internal
organs were all missing. An autopsy finds a living organism inside
Gissing's throat, held in by sutures. Dale calls on Mrs. Skur and
accuses her of knowing her husband is still alive. He says Skur was
the victim of Xenotransplantation -- the process of grafting another
living organism into a human body. He says German scientists
experimented with it during WWII. When Dale leaves, Mrs. Skur goes
to her husband in a backyard fallout shelter, the organism emerges
from his mouth and kills her.
-
Dale is taken to J.
Edgar Hoover who lectures him about the communist threat and gives
Dales one chance to save himself. He is sent to an arranged meeting
with Skur, wearing a hidden transmitter. Bill Mulder is one of the
escorts to the meeting site. Skur tells Dale that "they"
want Dale dead. They fight and the organism begins to emerge from
Skur's mouth but Dale manages to handcuff Skur and escape death.
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Bill Mulder
eventually helps Skur escape captivity. (Travelers)
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July 15, 1952
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Birthday of twins
Roland Fuller and Arthur Grable. They are separated in childhood,
and Roland becomes autistic. Arthur becomes an experimental
physicist. (Roland)
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1950s
-
Use of radiation to
treat various ailments is common, because the medical profession
does not understand the dangers. Certain governmental agencies
conduct testing of radioactive treatments on civilians without their
informed consent. (Historical)
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Early 1950s
-
According to Deep
Throat, the federal government learns that the Soviets are
experimenting with eugenics in order to attempt to develop a super
soldier. In reaction, the government somehow manages to clone two
people. Eight sets of boy and girl clones are born and raised in a
controlled compound at a place called Litchfield. The project comes
to be called the Litchfield Experiment. The boys are called Adam and
the girls Eve. (Eve)(Deep Throat occasionally lied to Mulder, or
distorted the truth. Details could be different from what he
reported.)
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1953
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Beginning this year,
Majestic begins flying aircraft using antigravity propulsion systems.
It is learned that antigravity propulsion operates by bending
space-time. It is also learned that lost time is a common symptom of
close proximity to antigravity propulsion systems.(Dreamland)(Dreamland
is not clear, but the antigravity propulsion system is apparently
based on UFO technology. If so, the technology was apparently
obtained after the Roswell crash.)
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August 19, 1953
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The last survivor
of the ward room of the Zeus Faber is interviewed by a task force
from Washington that includes William Mulder and the Cigarette
Smoking Man. They ask if the crewman considers the oil that seeped
from Captain Johansen to have been an entity. Even this early, the
Smoking Man smokes Morley Cigarettes. (Apocrypha)
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Note: Given that
Bill Mulder and the Smoking Man are seen as Army Captains in 1962,
they may be junior officers at this time, although they appear in
civilian clothes. (If you believe Musings...)
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1954
-
An second series of
murders in the northwest, in which the victims are ripped to shreds
and eaten. The case remains unsolved. (Shapes)
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April, 1955
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Lockheed Company
searches for remote site to test the U-2. It is decided to place a
runway at the south end of Groom Lake. Work begins on the facility
there under the direction of Lockheed Skunk Works. Groom Lake, is
sometimes also known as Area 51 or Dreamland, is the testing grounds
for top secret conventional aircraft such as the SR-71 Blackbird and
the F-117A fighter. (Published accounts)
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At some point, the
testing of antigravity propulsion systems based on alien technology
is moved to Groom Lake.(Dreamland)
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July, 1955
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Work on "The
Ranch" at Groom Lake is complete at a cost of $800,000. It
consists of three hangars, control tower, mess hall, runway, and
numerous mobile homes. The first U-2 was shipped out on July 23. (Published
accounts)
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August 4, 1955
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First flight of the
U-2 at Groom Lake. (Published accounts)
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1956
-
A group of five
hunters in Montana is attacked by a creature that appears to be half
man and half bat. Five people die or disappear. In some cases, body
parts are found later at a significant distance from the body. Ernie
Stefaniuk is attacked by the man-bat, but the man-bat is eventually
killed. Another man-bat begins stalking Ernie who soon goes into
hiding that will last until the year 2000. His wife, Ariel, goes
into hiding with him on an island. Ernie forbids her to tell her
mother where they have gone. Ernie's brother, Myron, sends supplies
to the island via a raft that is pulled across the water like a
ferry. Ernie has deep gouge wounds on his face, possibly from the
initial attack or a later encounter with the man-bat. (Patience)
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February 23, 1956
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Jack Willis is born.
(Lazarus)
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June 20, 1958
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Public Land Order
1662 is enacted by Roger Ernst, Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
withdrawing 38,400 acres (60 square miles) around Groom Lake for use
"by the Atomic Energy Commission in connection with the Nevada
Test Site." The area, 6 miles North/South and 10 miles East/West,
form the first "box" around the Groom base.(Published
accounts)
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1957
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Future
Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator Carl Wormus
is born. (Nothing Important Happened Today.)
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October 23, 1958
-
Patrick Garland
Crump is born. (Drive)
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1959
-
John Doggett is
born, based on turning 18 in 1977, which is inferred from his resume
seen in Within. (Depending on when his birthday is during the year,
he might have been born in 1958.)
-
Clyde Bruckman has
tickets to a Buddy Holly and Big Bopper concert, but they die in an
airplane crash in Iowa. He obsesses on the events that lead to the
Big Bopper's death and gradually becomes able to predict the
circumstances of other people's death. (Clyde Bruckman's Final
Repose)
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A third series of
murders in the northwest, in which the victims are ripped to shreds
and eaten. The case remains unsolved. (Shapes)
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1960
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Circa 1960, Albert
Tanner is born. He has the unique ability to regenerate injuries to
his body, and must consume cancer in order to survive. Mulder will
later speculate that Tanner is a mutation that incorporates cancer
into the "normal" condition of Tanner's body. (Leonard
Betts.)
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Warren James Dupre
is born in Klamath Falls, Washington.(In Lazarus, Dupre said he
was born in the Year of the Rat, which was January 28, 1960 to
February 14, 1961)
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According to the
Bounty Hunter posing as Ambrose Chapel, early in the cold war the
Soviets gain the capability of cloning in a program called "Gregor."
(Colony and End Game)
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March 8 to June 21,
1960
-
A lawman disappears
after failing to find the person who killed four others by skinning
them alive. The lawman is the reincarnated victim of an 1868 murder
in which he was skinned alive. The four 1960 victims are the
reincarneted sould of the four 1868 murderers. A fifth person tries
to prevent the murders but fails. One the day one victim dies, March
8, Victor Potts is born. On the day another victim does, Terry Pruit
is born. (Hellbound)
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August 7, 1960
-
David Duchovny's
birthday.
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January 1961
-
The Cigarette
Smoking Man aids the President of the Congo in the assassination of
Patrice Lumumba. (If you believe Musings...)
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April 17, 1961
-
The Bay of Pigs
invasion, in which the American government secretly supports an
invasion of Cuba by expatriates at the Cienaga de Zapata swamps of
Las Villas Province, Cuba. The invasion fails when the anticipated
popular uprising does not occur. Many of the invasion forces had
been trained by the Cigarette Smoking Man, who meets E. Howard Hunt
during this training. (Historical and Musings...)
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May 17, 1961
-
Clayton Jones pulls
off the road for a nap near Dudley, Arkansas. He is found three days
later in a deranged condition, claiming to have been abducted by
"Fire Demons." In fact, he has experienced a cannibalism
ceremony, organized by Walter Chaco, and been allowed to survive. (Our
Town)
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May 31, 1961
-
Cigarette Smoking
Man aides Dominican locals in the assassination of Raphael Trujio.
(If you believe Musings...)
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September 19, 1961
-
Betty and Barney
Hill have an encounter with a UFO on a rural stretch of highway
between Lancaster and Concord, New Hampshire. They experience
missing time, and over the months become more and more disturbed
about the events. Finally, in 1964, they undergo a series of
hypnotic regression sessions, with a trained psychiatrist. Under
hypnosis, they independently confirm each others stories of being
taken on board a UFO and subjected to tests. The psychologist
concludes that the experiences may have been based in a dream by
Betty, and that Barney may have absorbed his account from her
descriptions of her dream. Betty and Barney, however, finish the
therapy with the definite opinion that they were abducted. (The
Interrupted Journey, by John G. Fuller)
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October 13, 1961
-
Fox William Mulder
is born on Friday the 13th, son of William and Teena Mulder. The
family home is in Chilmark, on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts,
within commuting range of Otis Air Force Base and Camp Edwards
Military Reservation on the mainland. The family also has a summer
home in Qounochontaug, RI, (pronounced QUAN-uh-kah-tagh) near US
Highway 1 in southwest Rhode Island. William Mulder allegedly works
for the State Department, but in fact is deeply involved in the work
of The Conspiracy. Fox presently discovers he is red-green color
blind. (Bill Mulder calls Fox a one year old in a Musings...
scene identified as October 1962. Some fan sources once gave October
11th as Fox's birthday. The 13th was on the file folder in Paperclip,
and repeated on the driver's license in Small Potatoes.)
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In "The Sixth
Extinction II: Amor Fati" the Cigarette Smoking Man claims to
be Fox Mulder's father. Later in the episode, Diana Fowley makes a
statement confirming the claim. The circumstances are not clear.
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In Theef Mulder
mentions his grandfather slurping soup, indicating that at least one
of his grandfathers was still alive in Mulder's youth.
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1961
-
William and Maggie
Scully are married in this year, or earlier. A favorite song of
William's, Beyond the Sea, is used in the ceremony, recognizing that
he is an officer in the US Navy.
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1962
-
Melissa Scully is
born. (Based on her grave stone, seen in Apocrypha.)
-
Vickie Crump is
born. (Drive)
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April 18, 1962
-
A UFO is seen by
many witnesses to fly across the United States. First seen near
Oneida, New York, it is reported in several states. A UFO, probably
the same one, lands near a power substation in Utah, causing a large
blackout. The UFO later apparently explodes in western New Mexico,
lighting up the evening ski in nearby Reno. The light of the
explosion is reportedly visible in California. The Atomic Energy
Commission denies that any nuclear test is conducted on this day.
Air Force personnel state to reporters that the UFO has been racked
on radar. (News accounts)
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On December 24,
1991, Deep Throat mentions "all of our work in the past 30
years, all of our victories..." to the Cigarette Smoking Man,
implying that their work together, or a major project began in late
1961 or early 1962. (Musings...) This does not particularly agree
with One Son, which places 1973 and 1947 as the major events in the
history of the Consortium.
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October, 1962
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Young Fox Mulder
speaks his first words, "JFK." His mother sends a photo of
herself and Fox to Bill Mulder, at Fort Bragg, where he is stationed.
A copy ends up in the possession of the Cigarette Smoking Man. (If
you believe Musings...)
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October 22, 1962
-
The Cuban Missile
Crisis. (Historical)
-
William Scully is
at sea with the US Navy during the missile crisis, presumably
participating in the blockaide of Soviet ships. When he arrives home,
a favorite song, Beyond the Sea, is played in his honor. His wife
later mentions something about him marching off the boat and
proposing to her. (Beyond the Sea) Given that Melissa Scully was
born in 1962 (Apocrypha), either Maggie Scully was not clear in her
statement about the proposal, or Melissa was illegitimate. If Bill
Scully's girlfriend was pregnant, this would have given him strong
motivation to propose as soon as he was released from crisis duty.
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October 30, 1962
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At the Center for
Special Warfare, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the Cancer Man, a
Captain in the Army, is recruited to kill President Kennedy, by
General Frantz. Frantz, a two star general, is also an aviator (based
on the wings on his uniform) and smokes Morley cigarettes. Cancer
Man lies and says he never touches cigarettes, although he has been
smoking since at least 1953.
-
Bill Mulder is in
the same military unit, and presumably of similar rank, since their
bunks are adjacent to each other.
-
The Smoking Man is
seen to be reading The Manchurian Candidate, about brain washing and
assassination, and comments he would much rather read the book than
see the movie. (If you believe Musings...)
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1963
-
Diana Fowley is
born circa this year. (The Official X-Files Site says she is
"in her 30s." 1963 would make her 35 when she first
appears in The End.)
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At some point early
in the Litchfield Experiment, Eve 7 escapes. She is raised by a
geneticist employed by the experiment and grows up relatively
normal, by the standard of the other Eves. She develops the goal of
becoming a geneticist and helping the other Adam and Eve clones
become better adjusted. (Eve)
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November 22, 1963
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The Smoking Man,
under the name of Hunt (probably borrowed from E. Howard Hunt) gets
Lee Harvey Oswald to leave a rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas
Schoolbook Depository, under a pretext. He participates in the
assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, firing from a storm sewer
opening. All record of his service is eliminated, and he moves on to
other highly classified assignments. Lee Harvey Oswald is made a
patsy, although he fires no weapon at Kennedy. Knowing of the
conspiracy, Oswald kills a police officer he believes to be a
Conspiracy operative. He is subsequently arrested at the Texas
Theater, where he has gone to try to find Cancer Man. Feeling the
stress, Cancer Man begins smoking more, and enjoying it less. (If
you believe Musings...)
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John Fitzgerald
Byers is born. His parents name him after the assassinated President.
(Unusual Suspects)
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1963
-
Tooms commits a
third series of five murders. Detective Frank Briggs holds a desk
job and is not permitted to investigate, but gathers information on
his own. He remembers the MO from thirty years earlier, and
preserves large amounts of evidence, including a section of liver
tissue and a photo of Tooms. (Squeeze/Tooms)
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A fleet of six
Soviet mine sweepers vanishes on the 65th parallel, northwest of the
British Isles. The seas are calm and the sky sunny. (Dod Kalm)
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1964
-
A fourth series of
murders in the northwest, in which the victims are ripped to shreds
and eaten. The case remains unsolved. (Shapes)
-
Alfred Fellig
registers with New York City police as a free-lance photographer, in
order to be permitted to visit crime scenes. He reregisters every
year until 1999, and his photographs each year show he has not aged.
(Tithonus)
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January 22, 1964
-
Samantha T. Mulder
is born. Her smallpox vaccination certificate (seen in Paper Clip)
says the family lives at 62 Greer Street, Martha's Vineyard,
Connecticut (even though the island Martha's Vineyard and the
community of West Tisbury is in Mass.)
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February 23, 1964
-
Dana Katherine
Scully is born to William and Margaret "Maggie" Scully. (One
Breath) Her birth certificate (seen in Paper Clip) says the family
lives at 1170 W. 53 Road, Annapolis, MD. (February 23 established in
Lazarus.) Her two brothers are Bill Junior and Charlie. Their exact
ages are unknown, although in "Roland" Dana says one
brother is older and one younger. Dana's older sister, Melissa, was
born in 1962. (Apocrypha) Presumably Bill, Jr., is the eldest son,
both because of his name and because he tends to act like an older
brother in various settings.
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1965
-
Takeo Ishimaru
reportedly dies, but continues his work in secret, attempting to
combine alien and human DNA. The conspiracy relocates him to Perkey,
West Virginia, under the name Dr. Shiro Zama. He operates a Hansen's
Disease Research facility. Other people are periodically brought in,
kept segregated, and during "treatment" sustain severe
burns. (These burns could result from simple radiation
experimentation or from exposure to alien life, such as found on the
Pacific UFO.) (731 & Nisei)
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A photo of 2 year
old Melissa Scully in a forest is taken that her sister will look at
in Christmas Carol.
-
Raymond Morrow
becomes a police officer in Aubrey, Missouri, and has a daughter,
named B.J. Morrow. (Aubrey)
-
Lucy Householder is
born. (Oubliette)
-
Eddie Van Blundht
Junior is born. Like his father, he has a vestigial tail and the
ability to morph. (Small Potatoes)(Date is an estimate. See 1979
entry.)
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1966
-
A photo of 3 year
old Melissa Scully is taken in the Nagoya Farmer's Market in Japan
that her sister will examine in Christmas Carol. Was Bill Scully
stationed in Japan in the US Navy?
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March 16, 1966
-
The Gemini 8
mission suffers serious thruster malfunctions, causing the craft to
tumble and roll after the first-ever American spacecraft docking in
space. The crew battles the malfunction with manual thrusters, and
eventually aborts the flight for an emergency reentry, landing in
the Western Pacific. The crew consists of Neil Armstrong and Dave
Scott. (Historical)
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The episode Space
indicates that Astronaut Marcus Aurelius Bolt was on this flight,
and that there was also an oxygen loss. The implication is that some
entity intercepted the spacecraft, and somehow took at least partial
control of Belt's mind. In Space he will be seen to morph
uncontrollably. There are implications that in the future he will be
forced to participate in sabotage of certain space missions.
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(When originally
broadcast, it was probably the intent that actual aliens had
intercepted Belt in order to keep humans from learning about their
existence in the space nearby Earth. In light of later seasons, the
Conspiracy may well have had reason to limit NASA, and may have used
hypnosis, alien gene therapy treatments and spacecraft based on
alien technology to intercept Gemini 8.)
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November 14, 1966
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What is known as
the "Mothman flap" begins, in a field near Salem, West
Virginia. A creature with glowing red eyes, described as two inches
wide and six inches apart is seen several times over the course of
the following year. The creature is described as shaped like a man,
but larger, and also sometimes described as having wings, like a bat
or moth. It is sometimes reported to be able to fly without flapping
its wings. Some descriptions say it has no head, and the eyes are
set in its shoulders. Television interference is sometimes reported
in association with the Mothman. All reports of the Mothman are
generally around the Point Pleasant, West Virginia area. During the
same period of time, over 1,000 UFO sightings are reported in the
Ohio River Valley area, part of a major world-wide "flap"
of UFOs, culminating with the collapse of a Point Pleasant-area
bridge on December 15, 1967, that kills 37 people, and coincides
with an intense series of UFO sightings in one evening. Things then
return to normal. The best scientific explanation for the Mothman is
a series of sightings of the rare Sandhill Crane, a very large bird
with red eyes. (News accounts)
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Mulder believes the
nearly invisible creatures he and Scully encountered in western
Florida in late 1997 might be related to the Mothman. (Detour)
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1967
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Richard "Ringo"
Langly is born circa this year. (Langly's first name, Richard, is
given in The X-Files episode Via Negativa. Although an early version
of the script for Unusual Suspects gave his first name as "Ringo,"
that name was never used on the air, until it appeared in the
opening credits of The Lone Gunmen TV series.)
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Marita Covarrubias
is born circa this year.
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Richard Nixon
acquires an arabic rug in which lives a genie. His wishes give him
the power he desires, but also lead to his downfall when his last
wish is not specific enough. (Je Souhaite)
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June 6, 1967
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Roberta K. Sim is
born. Sim will be her married name. Her maiden name is unknown. She
is the future mother of "Emily." (Christmas Carol)
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August 1967
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Four UFO sightings
are made in the area of Lake Okoboji, in northwest Iowa. One is
sighted by a National Weather Service pilot. Four girl scouts,
including Darlene Morris, and the adult girl scout leader make
another sighting, and one girl photographs what appears to be a
flying disk with a brownie camera. (Conduit)
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October 13, 1967
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This apparent date
was seen on a Conspiracy document relating to Dana Scully. It is
unclear what the date might represent in their records. (Emily)
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1968
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Frank Briggs
retires.(Squeeze/Tooms)
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Eight year old
Albert Tanner is assaulted by two school boys. He does not defend
himself. (Leonard Betts)
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The Litchfield
Project discovers that at around age 12 the Adam and Eve clones
begin to develop psychoses. They have been found to have abnormal
strength and IQs up to 265 as the result of having 56 chromosomes. (Eve)
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March 1968
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Cancer Man writes a
story, based on his own experiences, Entitled "Take a Chance: A
Jack Colquitt Adventure." He uses the pen name Raul Bloodworth.
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A group including
General Frantz and J. Edgar Hoover consults Cancer Man about how to
discredit Martin Luther King. Cancer Man, who respects King, also
considers him to be a threat, because he has begun using Marxism as
an illustration of the negative aspects of democracy. Cancer Man
becomes concerned that if King were to convince black men to not
serve in the military, the Vietnam War would be lost. He tells
Hoover that the only alternative is to assassinate King. (If you
believe Musings...)
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April 4, 1968
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Cancer Man
assassinates Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel, room 306, in
Memphis, shooting from the bushes at the top of an embankment
directly across from the motel, as opposed to the rooming house
bathroom, as believed by some authorities. Cancer Man still carries
the photo of one year old Fox Mulder, and his mother, obtained from
Bill Mulder in 1962. (If you believe Musings...)
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Raul, possibly
taken from Raul Bloodworth, is the name given by James Earl Ray,
arrested for killing Dr. King, who was actually on an errand for
Cancer Man during the assassination. Ray discovers that he is a
suspect and escapes Memphis. He is eventually arrested in London.
Ray confesses, hoping for a light sentence. He is sentenced to 99
years, and recants his confession three days later. (Historical)
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August 9, 1968
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Gillian Anderson's
birthday.
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November 1, 1968
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Albert Goodwinkle,
of Montgomery and Glick Publishing, rejects Cancer Man's story
"Take a Chance: A Jack Colquitt Adventure," calling it
"crap." Cancer Man receives the letter at 555 Brooksbank
Avenue, Apartment 24, Washington DC 20091. (Musings...)
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Cancer Man is
familiar enough with the poetry of Aeschylus to quote it from memory.
(Musings...)
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Circa 1969
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Fox Mulder
encounters a preying mantis while tree climbing, and decides he
hates insects. (War of the C.'s)
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A UFO is seen over
Hanoi. The Marines attempt unsuccessfully to shoot it down. Deep
Throat is with "The Company" at this time. (Musings...)
Apparently referring to the same incident, Deep Throat later tells
Mulder that he became one of the three men to have exterminated an
alien, with the CIA in Vietnam. He tells Mulder that the death of
that innocent alien haunts him and that is why he wants the truth to
be known. (E.B.E)
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Deep Throat may
have been blurring the facts, and may have actually been describing
the killing of an alien in 1991. (Musings...)
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Jack Conroy is born.
He eventually becomes a US Customs officer, based on San Pedro,
California. (Alpha)
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Antiwar activist
Micah Hoffman is a focal point of the counterculture movement across
the country. Mulder described him as one of the original Weathermen,
the first Yippie (i.e. a politically active hippie) and also said
that he played on the baseball team at Columbia University. As the
years pass, Hoffman changes his approach, undermining authority by
forgery of documents, including documents that undermine the church
and religious teachings. He studies the life of Christ in such
detail that by the year 2000 he comes to believe that Christ
inhabits his body. (Hollywood A.D.)
End of this
section of the Timeline
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