Exclusive | David Duchovny reveals if hed do more X-Files: I dont really think about UFOs, to be honest

He doesn’t want to believe. David Duchovny hosts a new History Channel show premiering April 4 (10 p.m.), called “Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny.” On the series, the “X-Files” star explores real-life government cover ups through history, including Area 51, confidential cold-war era tunnels, and more. “We live in this age of, everything is a conspiracy theory.I thought, how interesting that these are actual declassified stories that – if they’re not conspiracies – some of them were done under cover, or out of the eye of the public,” Duchovny, 64, exclusively told The Post. “But, it shows how ridiculous some of these actual conspiracies are.”Contrary to his “X-Files” character, Fox Mulder, whose famous tagline is, “I want to believe,” Duchovny explained, “I’m not an actual conspiracy theorist.

I believe there’s always kind of a mundane explanation.”He added that “Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny” shows that, “there are mundane explanations, or often ridiculous explanations of insane [things] going on.”This includes believing that there’s a dull explanation for UFOs.“I don’t really think about UFOs, to be honest with you,” he quipped to The Post.Duchovny finds that the stories he explores on the show are “all surprising and interesting.”“Mostly because they are true,” he explained.

“I find most of the conspiracy theories on the internet not interesting because to me they’re so obviously not true and the result of kind of lazy thinking and the need for a bad guy.”But on the show, “it’s usually a group of people who are really trying to do a good thing, but going about it all the wrong way.” The “Californication” alum, who is also a musician and writer with a new book of poetry, has dipped in and out of playing Fox Mulder on “The X-Files” for 30 years – the original series ran from 1993 to 2002, there were revival seasons in 2016 and 2018, and movies in 1998 an...