a popular US television science fiction programme, also shown in the UK, whose main characters are two FBI agents who have many exciting and frightening adventures in their attempts to solve strange mysteries involving aliens (=creatures from other worlds) and other paranormal events
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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