Roswell Incident
In The X-Files, the Roswell incident of 1947 is the starting point of the Syndicate, formed after it when German scientists were brought to the United States to work on an alien-human hybrid. Deep Throat claims that after Roswell, power brokers from several nations signed a secret treaty on what to do if an alien spacecraft crashed on Earth.
Quick Facts
- Location
- Roswell, New Mexico
- Significance
- Origin of the Alien Conspiracy Arc
- Status
- Covered up by the U.S. Government
Lore & Background
The Cigarette Smoking Man is shown active soon after the Roswell incident, overseeing an experiment on a grey alien. The sixth-season episode 'The Unnatural' is set partly in Roswell in 1947, where a young police officer, Arthur Dales, meets Josh Exley, an alien hiding among humans as a baseball player.
Reader's Guide
In the series finale, 'The Truth', Mulder and Scully end up in a motel room in Roswell, New Mexico.
Did You Know?
- The Syndicate's hybrid project produced its first success decades later in Cassandra Spender.
- The character known as the Cigarette Smoking Man is depicted as having been present or involved in the cover-up operations stemming from Roswell.
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