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2000[]
While in his bedroom one night in 2000, Jason McPeck, an eleven-year-old boy suffering from cancer, observed a bright light from a UFO that descended from the sky outside his house. The silhouettes of walking men appeared from under the light. Having apparently been cured of his cancer as a result of this encounter, Jason McPeck told Agent Scully, when she later interviewed him, that he had been visited by angels who had looked like men and had come from the sky in "a ball of light" but the Cigarette Smoking Man later claimed to be responsible for curing Jason McPeck's cancer, using a microchip inserted at the back of the boy's neck, and Scully saw evidence of this. — (En Ami)
By 2000, there had been years of sightings and eyewitnesses accounts of UFOs and aliens but people still refused to believe in these things, due to a lack of real proof. — (Within)
In May 2000, a UFO collided with a Navy jet fighter and consequently crashed in Oregon, landing twenty miles outside Bellefleur, in a forest where it initially continued to burn but soon began rebuilding itself. Although the Navy quickly recovered their craft, several unsuccessful attempts to find and recover the UFO were made. Individuals who searched for the UFO included Alex Krycek, under the guidance of the Cigarette Smoking Man, Richie Szalay - who AD Skinner would later describe as a "UFO nut" - and his friend, Gary Cory, as well as Mulder and Scully — (Requiem, This is Not Happening). The Cigarette Smoking Man regarded the UFO as a singular opportunity to rebuild the Syndicate's Project and claimed that recovery of the craft was all-important, as possessing the UFO equated to possessing the answer to "all things, every possible imaginable question." Even though Scully and Mulder did not bring the UFO back to the FBI with them, AD Skinner believed it would still be possible for Mulder to present a UFO to his superiors. To this end, the Assistant Director facilitated the agents pooling their search efforts with those of Alex Krycek, Marita Covarrubias (who had also been working for the Cigarette Smoking Man) and the three The Lone Gunmen; this collaboration was successful in locating the UFO.
After Mulder headed to the site of the craft with AD Skinner, he was taken aboard the ship (which was now airborne in a position only slightly above the ground). Just prior to Mulder's abduction, there were at least three instances of UFO activity and reported alien abductions in the Pacific Northwest. Abducted at the same time as Mulder were several abductees including Deputies Ray Hoese and Billy Miles, as well as Gary Cory — (Requiem). Theresa Hoese (who Billy Miles had abducted years previously, when her surname had been "Nemman", but who was now married to Deputy Hoese) was also taken aboard the UFO — (Pilot, Requiem). The craft was occupied by at least six alien bounty hunters, intent on covering up evidence of aliens and UFOs — (Without). As AD Skinner watched, the UFO launched and departed the area, a sight the Assistant Director subsequently refused to deny having seen — (Requiem, Within). According to Richie Szalay in 2001, not many UFO sightings were reported after this incident in Oregon. — (This is Not Happening)
Following Mulder's abduction, UFO activity took place all over the southwestern states and the specific craft he was on headed to the Arizona desert — (Within). There, at least one alien bounty hunter unsuccessfully attempted to abduct Gibson Praise; the bounty hunter's efforts were hampered by the FBI, who eventually killed the alien — (Without). Meanwhile, the UFO carrying Mulder moved at night from a stationary position not far from the Burro Bend Cafe to a position farther into the desert — (Within, Without). An FBI helicopter landed near the UFO but left the area, not long after. — (Without)
2001[]
For a period of two weeks in 2001, many UFO sightings were made in Montana. These sightings began suddenly and Richie Szalay, who frequently visited internet chat rooms to talk about such topics as sightings, followed the news to Montana, hoping to find his abducted friend, Gary Cory.
At 12:58am one morning in 2001, the UFO that Mulder was aboard was chased along Fanning Ranch Road in Helena, Montana, by Richie Szalay in a car but it quickly passed over a hill, traveling into a big field beyond sight of Richie Szalay, and left Theresa Hoese's unconscious body on the ground. This UFO encounter was reported to the FBI one night, soon thereafter. When learning of the encounter, Scully noted that she had drawers full of reports that began with accounts of events very similar to a young man chasing a bright object across the sky, tracking the UFO all the way to a big field where it disappeared but where the youth reportedly saw an alien.
After Theresa Hoese was taken from St. Jean's Hospital by Jeremiah Smith, Special Agent Monica Reyes - who suspected that Theresa Hoese had been the victim of a UFO group or cult she believed Mulder had joined and that the purpose of the group was related to recent well-known news stories about transport to a mothership, and the idea of a giant motherwheel or Heaven's Gate - saw the UFO carrying Mulder, while she was driving in Montana. The UFO passed over a hill, into a field beyond Reyes' sight, where it left the deceased bodies of Gary Cory, who was subsequently recovered by the FBI, and Fox Mulder, who was taken by Jeremiah Smith and accomplice Travis Clayton Moberly. Special Agent John Doggett - who, for the past few months had been searching with Scully for a break on the case involving Mulder's disappearance - was highly skeptical that spaceships were involved and referred to Reyes' account of her UFO sighting as "mumbo jumbo".
According to Travis Clayton Moberly and Jeremiah Smith, they would help recover abductees after the ships came in and, after FBI personnel finally located Mulder's body in a wooded area near a compound belonging to Smith and Moberly, Scully saw a UFO that flew over the compound and abducted Jeremiah Smith from within. — (This is Not Happening)
Later in 2001, Billy Miles' apparently deceased body was found floating fifty miles off-shore, in the Atlantic Ocean, off Cape Fear, North Carolina. After being revived and secretly transformed into a supersoldier, he claimed that a memory of having been aboard a spacecraft or ship was one of the few recollections he still had. — (DeadAlive)