The series was created by Chris Carter, who is also the executive producer. Co-executive producers are R.W. Goodwin and Howard Gordon. and the co-producer is Paul Rabwin. Charles Craig is supervising producer. Rob Bowman, Kim Manners, and Joseph Patrick Finn are producers. Story editors are Frank Spotnitz, Darin Morgan, and Jeff Vlaming. The show is filmed almost entirely in Vancouver, British Columbia. The X-Files_ is not based on true events or real FBI X-Files (but it is fun to fantasize). The episodes are fiction, but the plots are loosely based on news reports of unexplained events around the world and other unexplained phenomena. The pilot does open with a note saying that the events were based on an actual real-life story, but was not meant to imply that there are real X-Files.

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