In the 90s (as I remember them), UFO/conspiracy culture was fairly mainstream so the audience would have been familiar with the original concept, making a humorous spinoff possible and more interesting at the time than a straight-ahead movie about the subject. We already had the X-files.
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In the 90s (as I remember them), UFO/conspiracy culture was fairly mainstream so the audience would have been familiar with the original concept, making a humorous spinoff possible and more interesting at the time than a straight-ahead movie about the subject. We already had the X-files.