The Real 'X-Files'? CIA Reveals Weirdest UFO Stories
by Tia Ghose, Senior Writer

The real-life stories of UFOs would be enough for the fictional "X-Files" FBI agents Mulder and Scully to spend a lifetime investigating.

With a nod to the new "X-Files" reboot (which airs on Fox on Mondays at 8 p.m. ET), the Central Intelligence Agency has released a trove of once classified documents on several real-life unidentified flying objects.

Not surprisingly, many of these UFO sightings emerged in the early 1950s. The space race was on, the Cold War fears had reached a fever pitch, and science-fiction movies like "The Flying Saucer" (1950) catapulted schlocky depictions of aliens and their flying machines into the popular consciousness. In fact, by 1953, UFO mania had reached such heights that the CIA marshaled a team of scientific consultants to investigate all of the reports and review the "Unidentified Flying Object Problem," according to a 1953 memorandum by the agency.

Full story: http://www.livescience.com/53496-real-life-x-files.html

-- livescience 2016-01-28

Lots of free publicity for the X-Files reboot.

Lots of free publicity for the X-Files reboot.

I'm watching the original series 4 right now on CTH's "Hits" channel.

Scully looks much better .

In case you're wondering, several NY Times critics say the first new episode sucks, but the next two are "exponentially" better. It's only a six-part miniseries as is, but I hope somehow they could renew it.