Yes . . . the X-files TV series was originally based on real events in the Washington, DC area

They were slightly fictionalized so that when rumors spread about the real events, federal officials could explain them as merely being plots on a popular TV series.

I am constantly getting emails with the same questions. This article is the answer to all of them, now and in the future. I will explain how real events were fictionalized to make the public think that they were science-fiction.

by Richard L. Thornton, Architect & City Planner

Scene at the Georgetown Hearings immediately before four teenagers from Shenandoah County, VA are about to testify about a satanic cult run by the Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Department for specially selected young men and women.

During the early years of this popular series, most of the plots were derived from testimonies by witnesses at secret hearings above a cafe & bakery in Georgetown, which were held during the late winter and spring of 1992. Almost all the witnesses were civilians or local law enforcement officers. In other words, in the TV series, Special Agents Scott Mulder and Dana Scully were shown having experiences that actually happened to people, who were NOT FBI agents.

FBI and NSA agents were interviewed in November 1991. I did not have sufficient security classification to attend those hearings. However, my friend with benefits, Special Agent Susan Karlson (alias) was a key witness there.

Even though I was a civilian in that era, like Susan I was required to sign a 30-year non-disclosure agreement, I stayed silent about those events and the two great loves of my life, Susan and Vivi, until 2021. What made the matter worse was that immediately after George W. Bush was inaugurated President in 2000, my Witness Protection Program handler, the Assistant U. S. District Attorney in Knoxville, was fired . . . the corrupt Virginia law enforcement officers, who had murdered innocent civilians were freed then give promotions.

Georgia law enforcement officers began to commit a wide range of crimes against me for absolutely no reason. I was mainly interested in getting back my life, starting a family and advancing in my profession. I have never been involved in politics and voted a split ticket.

Executives of major TV networks, plus several major news organizations were at the 1992 hearings and asked questions to the witnesses . . . but strangely, none of the information ever appeared in either in the Washington Post, USA Today or TV network/CNN newscasts. We heard irrefutable evidence that freelance investigator, Danny Casolaro, was murdered by covert NSA agents with the cooperation of the Martinsburg, WV police. However, the Washington Post ceased publishing articles about Casolaro after the hearings.

Apparently, someone decided to provide the depositions to a someone in the TV industry, with the understanding that they would be slightly fictionalized. This is a very common tactic among National Security officers. The public is exposed to a plausible, but fictionalized version of events on the evening TV news, then quickly forgets the matter.

Key Points

• The initial purpose of this investigation by the U. S. Dept. of Justice Task Force on State & Local Corruption was focused on the murders of over 100 TV and newspaper reporters during the first six months of 1991, plus the murders of dozens of innocent civilians in Virginia, who had provided information about illegal drug activity to the Virginia Bureau of Investigation’s Drug Hotline. Indeed, the State of Virginia abolished the VBI after the hearings.

• The focus of the investigation exploded into the wide range of strange criminal activities, which fueled the X-file series for nine years, after the top secret testimonies in November 1991. Covert FBI and NSA agents revealed surrealistic information about CIA, US Air Force and Coast Guard personnel playing major roles in the cocaine trafficking, plus a plot by a group of extremely wealthy families, who were members of a Satanic cult, to overthrow democracy in the United States and replace it with a feudal society, controlled by the ultra-rich elite.

• The X-files portray the “public” FBI personnel in the J. Edgar Hoover Building as heavily involved in these events. They were not. That was part of the fictionalization, which probably persuaded the FBI administrators to go along with releasing the testimonies privately. In fact, it was the covert divisions of the FBI and NSA, who risked and sometimes lost their lives in the desperate race to stop the madness unfolding.

• At that time, maybe still, the federal government was filled with factions, who warred against each other. The FBI was riddled with traitors, who were embedded to protect the interests of foreign enemies, major corporations, fascist moguls, cults. organized crime, etc. The Reagan and G. H. Bush Administrations had promoted Russian spy, Robert Hansson, to the point that he was in charge of counter-intelligence! Their were even two senior instructors at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA who were satanic priests. There purpose was to first give preference to occultists among the candidates and secondly convince other candidates that there was no such thing as satanic cults or satanic organized crime.

• The real X-Files Couple were middle-aged couple with Ph.D.’s in History, who worked in the basement of the National Museum of American History. I think that at that time the headquarters of FBI covert operations was in the Library of Congress. I was not allowed to visit the alternative office of my friends, the real X-files Couple in their Library of Congress Office. Candidates for lifetime service in the convert division, such as Susan, were trained at another location other than the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA. Thus, moles within the public division would not recognize them.

• The reason that I moved my belongings from Virginia to a townhouse near Etowah Mounds in Cartersville, GA in 1995, was that there was a covert FBI office, posing as a shop in Downtown Cartersville. I was in the federal witness protection program. Susan operated out of her real estate law office in Roswell, GA.

• FBI Agent-In-Charge (Asheville, NC) Cosby Morgan told me that while he was in the covert division and working up the ladder of the Mafia, virtually no one knew his true identity in the FBI. No regular FBI employee, politician, federal employee or even the President could find his name on a list of FBI employees.

• The Men-In-Black, who conceal knowledge about extraterrestrials, really exist. I have no clue, who they work for. When headlines appeared in northern Virginia newspapers about a dogfight in the sky between three round UFO’s and one larger spindle-shaped vehicle at incredibly fast speeds, the MEN-IN-BLACK appeared to seize the newspapers and printing plates. Thousands of us had watched the spectacle, but Northern Virginia Daily employees henceforth denied that they ever published an interview with the Shenandoah Country Treasurer on whose lawn the spindle-shaped craft crash-landed. I saw it go down.

• Unlike the TV series, extraterrestrials did not seem involved with the criminal activities investigated by the Georgetown Hearings. There was no testimony about extraterrestrials other than when I explained to the Justice Department representatives that rogue U.S. Army personnel were intentionally wearing outfits, when vandalizing farms, which made the farmers think that they were extraterrestrials. I furnished them with photographs of the Army Colonel and Major in command of the illegal activities, plus their gold Jeep Cherokee . . . . complete with the Maryland auto tag and Fort Detrick decals. LOL

Real events inserted into semi-fictional plots

Some programs were very close to actual events. In 1989, a type of Ebola Virus broke out in a Hazleton Research Product Primate Handling Center near Reston, VA. The official story is that no employees became ill. However, the employees wore protected clothing and never were in physical contact with the monkeys.

In the TV version two Latin American laborers, working for the company that transported the monkeys to Reston, are bit or scratched by diseased monkeys. They die from Ebola, because of inept medical care. I am inclined to think the TV version is accurate.

Two programs were specifically about me. In the first one I am portrayed as an old time mountaineer in a remote log cabin, whose livestock were dying mysteriously, after night time visits by extraterrestrials. Actually, our house was a Colonial Era historic landmark about a half mile from Interstate 81 and the visitors were rogue U.S. Army Rangers from Fort Detrick, MD.

In the other program, Special Agent drives up to the top of Massanutten Mountain to interview a billionaire international mining mogul then realizes that he may be in the presence of Satan. In real life, I was driving up that mountain at night to interview with that man to design a planned community near Winchester, VA. I have never been so scared in my life.

More common were scenes experienced by Susan and I that were interjected into other plots.

A ninja nerd on my farm in the Shenandoah Valley

In the TV version, Agents Mulder and Scully are on night-time surveillance, trying to catch a crooked federal employee about to give national secrets to someone from Octopus. They see what appears to be the silhouettes of extraterrestrials. A bright light rises over the mountain then heads for them. Eventually, the UFO is directly over them. It is like daylight and so the group of extraterrestrials run away. There is a loud humming sound. Viewers assume that the two FBI agents were about to be abducted. They wake up the next morning, not remembering what had happened.

In real life, it was the night of September 20, 1991. My estranged wife was away . . . somewhere with someone. Susan stopped by (officially) “to help me guard the farm.” About bedtime, the three herd dogs in the house started barking toward the west. We peeked out the window and saw several one-eyed ninja-nerds, coming down my driveway.

Then a bright light rose over Little North Mountain then became brighter and brighter. Next, a device in my neighbor’s pasture beamed ultrasonic waves that caused my entire house to hum louder and louder. The UFO then used a tractor beam to draw the ninja nerds, one by one, up into its hull.

I put on Israeli Army night vision goggles that were loaned me by a retired US Army general in Orange County, VA.

• The UFO was a US Army Nighthawk helicopter. It made very little noise.
• The ultra-sonic emitting object was a Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Dept. Drug Education Van.

My retired US Army general friend explained that it contained a massive ultrasonic sound generator, which was developed to disperse anti-Vietnam War crowds during the Nixon Administration, but now has been outlawed by Congress.

Think you get the gist! Now to move on unraveling the Pre-Columbian past of the Americas!