If you’re a NATSEC junkie and a sci-fi fan, then the trailer for the new “X-Files” season has an Easter Egg for you.

About 47 seconds into the new trailer, we see the show’s two main characters running through what looks a lot like Arlington National Cemetery. It is unclear who or what is pursuing them.

Fox network spokesman Todd Adair confirmed that an upcoming “X-Files” episode does in fact take place in Arlington National Cemetery, but that the show was not filmed on site.

Adair declined to say exactly what the Quixotic FBI agents Mulder and Scully were doing in the cemetery in the middle of the night, when visiting hours are presumably over. Three of the show’s beloved supporting characters collectively known as “the Lone Gunmen” are supposedly buried in the cemetery, although at least one may still be alive.

Officials at Arlington National Cemetery did not assist the show, said cemetery spokeswoman Barbara Lewandrowski, who noted that unlike the fictional version shown in “The X-Files,” the real cemetery does not have those style of lamp posts nor leave equipment out at night.

“The X-Files” has generally portrayed the Defense Department as a vast, secretive organization that keeps the truth about alien life from the American public. Show creator Chris Carter told Military Times in 2015 that his grandfather fought in World War I and his father served during the Korean War. Carter registered for the Selective Service in 1974, the year after the draft ended.

If the show was meant to make viewers question their government, it had the opposite effect on Bill Roggio, who was inspired by the evil “Cigarette Smoking Man” character to become a terrorism analyst.

“He was the quintessential ‘Man in Black,” Roggio told Military Times. “Watching his character made me want to learn how to peel back the layers and find out what actually was happening in world events. It’s funny: Once you do, you find out it’s not evil alien plots but it’s inefficient government bureaucracies and petty infighting and things like that are the real story, not all of the cool stuff that you get on ‘The X-Files.’”

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