The Smoking [Gun?] Man and Aliens?

The Smoking Gun Man?

I watched 'The Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man' X-Files episode for the first time this year and wrote this post about the show - 

Life is Like a Pack of Cigarettes ... if You Don't Give Up Now You Never Know What You Will Get?

Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996)

That episode of 'The X-Files' aired according to IMDB on November 17th, 1996 in the Year of the Rat, which was as close as they could get to November 22nd that year, I guess?

I also wrote about how the episode of the X-files titled 'Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'' which takes the piss out of Whitley Strieber's book 'Communion' is my favourite episode so far -

We're All Just Skeletons Trapped in Meat Prisons?

Then I listened to the latest 'Dreamland' podcast episode (well the free part of it anyway) where nearly 24 years on from the airing of the Cigarette Man's X-Files show about the Kennedy assassination and in another Year of the Rat, 2020, Whitley talks with Mark Shaw about his books on the Kennedy assassination -

Dreamland Podcast: First Show in Our Conspiracy Series: Mark Shaw on the Kilgallen Murder

Big Ideas Podcast:
Have We Seen Better Days?

Is 2020 (The Year of the Rat) As You Like It?