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A Northwoods Case for the X-Files
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:03:25
Publish Date: 2019-07-24 05:00:00
Description: During WXPR's Curious North road trip in June, Shane B. asked us this question at our stop in Crandon: There was an X-Files episode in the 1st season that was in Townsend, WI. Was it actually filmed here? For this week's A Northwoods Moment in History, Gary Entz answers Shane's question and also tells us about a real UFO incident that occurred in the Northwoods back in 1961. During the first season of the television show the X-Files there was an episode called “Fallen Angel” that purportedly was set in Townsend, a small town in Oconto County, Wisconsin. The episode, which dealt with a UFO crash, was not filmed anywhere in Wisconsin. The entire first season of the X-Files was filmed outside of Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition, the story is a complete fiction and never happened. This is disappointing because a real UFO incident did occur in the Northwoods and could have been the basis for an X-Files episode had the showrunners known about it. On a Tuesday April 18, 1961, Joe
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