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[edit] POV

No idea if this is going right. But isnt "The black helicopters theory resonates well with the belief held by some in the militia movement that troops from the United Nations might invade the United States." Does this sound like anti-militia pointlessness? What does it contribute?--Thuglifer 04:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image choice

Shouldn't the image really be of a UH-60 - preferably black?--rxnd ( t | € | c ) 06:18, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Seconded 220.236.10.112 09:55, 29 April 2007 (UTC)Hal

Yours is the only comment for a month, so I have changed the image to a black UH-1, albeit Austrian. --rxnd ( t | € | c ) 16:55, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

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• There is a band called Black Helicopter

• The phrase "black helicopters" has become a part of the popular lexicon, and is frequently used as a shorthand way of referring to conspiracy theories and government secrecy in general.

• In the 1986 film Biggles: Adventures in Time, one is stolen and travels back to the Western Front in 1917 to fight off Germans.

• In the computer game Deus Ex, the protagonist travels in the fictional SH-187, a sleek high-performance black helicopter with stealth technology, there are also mentions of mysterious black helicopters in news papers you can find throughout the game.

• In the computer game Psychonauts, the paranoid conspiracy theorist Boyd Cooper has his mental landscape constantly surveyed by black helicopters.

• In the 1997 film Conspiracy Theory, they are seen using an active noise control system to operate secretly in urban areas.

• The premiere episode of South Park, Cartman Gets an Anal Probe has a scene where Black Helicopters fly in the background as a cattle rancher discovers yet another cattle mutilation.

• Both Blue Thunder (movie and TV-series) and Airwolf (TV) from the early 80s have similarities with Black Helicopters, in look as well as use.

• Alt-pop group Soul Coughing has a song called "Unmarked Helicopters", which was briefly featured in the episode Max-2 of the TV series The X-Files. There are several other portrayals of black helicopters in other episodes of the series (for example two in the final episode "Truth"), as well as the movie The X-Files.

• Several black helicopters are featured on the cover of the Bad Religion album The New America.

• A popular underground hip hop group named Non Phixion also wrote a song named "Black Helicopters". They often mention the US government in their lyrics and other conspiracies such as aliens in Area 51.

• Bill Amend humorously mentions black helicopters (along with Roswell and CFR) in the introduction to the FoxTrot collection FoxTrot Beyond A Doubt; he facetiously claims that writing a popular comic strip allows him to leak information on conspiracies to the public.

• Black Helicopters were mentioned by the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, in a sarcastic answer to a question given in Question Period on May 9, 2006.^[1]

• Dale Gribble, Arlen's resident conspiracist in the FOX animated TV series King of the Hill, makes occasional references to black helicopters.

• A black helicopter was shown in the 2005 Doctor Who series episode Dalek

• A black helicopter is seen in the game Half-Life: Opposing Force.

• The organisation L.O.U.G.H.B.O.R.O.U.G.H. in BBC Radio 4 sci-fi comedy Nebulous own several black helicopters. The reason for this is given that although they aren't some "fly by night" organisation, they still need to fly by night.

• Three black helicopters, all armed, chase after Kim and Ron in a Season 4 episode of Kim Possible. True to the show's nature, the conspiratorial nature of black helicopters is humorously touched upon:
  --Ron: So, what are the chances that they're not after us?
  --Kim: They're black helicopters, Ron. They're always after us.

Canuckle 23:51, 23 July 2007 (UTC)