14-12-2009, 02:52 AM
Helen Reyes Wrote:Jan Klimkowski Wrote:If memory serves, it's to do with Crisman and Banister's "flying saucers" psy-op and the filing system for some of the related reports.
Please expand.
Yeah, Banister's (or Shaw's? they were apparently both there, as was Garrison) reports back to the director of the FBI on UFO activity in Washington state in 1947 (and perhaps elsewhere, I don't know) carried the title X-File number number number.
X-File 9999 could also just be Cross-Reference File #9999 or X-Ref File #9999 for short, which was common practice in the days of manual files and cross reference filings. Not X the unknown or X the mysterious but shorthand for X-Ref File was just X-File. The TV show turned it into X the Unknown Files or X the Mysterious Files.