When Chris Carter's TV series "The X-Files" debuted in 1993, it struck a nerve. With the Cold War recently over, the United States had become very wary of the kinds of lies their own government might have been telling them. Paranoia turned inward, and people began to believe that anything may be possible, even aliens. Oh, aliens were certainly real, but their existence was being covered up by a shadowy government cabal of CIA-like puppet masters. All the urban legends of alien abduction -- codified in 1987 with Whitley Streiber's book "Communion" -- now became widely accepted, and a TV show like "The X-Files" conformed...
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