AN American scientist has been compared to a beloved character from a popular sci-fi TV show.

Mark Sokol is a 35-year-old scientist who said he was caught off guard when two federal agents showed up at his laboratory in Hawthorne, New Jersey, on October 20.

The founder of the Falcon Space lab said FBI agents came to his shop last Friday after they received a report of dangerous uranium being used on site.

Although they did not find any of the harmful chemical, Sokol said, the agents were intrigued by the experiments being conducted.

“They flashed their badges, said ‘FBI,’ and asked if we had any enriched uranium,” Sokol said.

“I laughed and told them no,” he said, adding, “One said that we’re not in trouble and he wanted to come back at some point and pick my brain about UAPs because he’s been tasked by the FBI, in investigating UAPs or UFOs.”

Sokol said the more senior of the two agents told him they were looking into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), which is the government term for UFOs.

Sokol and his colleagues are attempting to use nuclear physics to make objects weightless, the first step towards building a functioning flying saucer.

This makes the scientist a semi-real-life Fox Mulder the character famously played by David Duchovny in The X-Files, the longest-running science fiction series in network TV history.

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CCTV shared with DailyMail.com showed the two FBI agents flashing their badges and interviewing the inventor. Video also showed them pacing outside with a Geiger counter – a device used to detect radiation – which showed no harmful radiation at the lab, Sokol said.

He added: “They said they got a tipoff that I have enriched uranium. The only uranium we have here is a little piece that I got off Amazon to check our Geiger counter to make sure it’s working.”

“We receive information from the public each day through various reporting mechanisms,” said a spokeswoman for the FBI field office in Newark, New Jersey.

Sokol described his lab as a community of scientists, engineers, and inventors hoping to crack anti-gravity, warp drives, and other futuristic technologies.

He said they receive funding from donations and a few private investors passionate about the subject.

The goal of their research and experiments is to figure out the technology behind these objects, which many believe are extraterrestrial .

“We’re researching UFO propulsion, trying to figure out propellant-less propulsion concepts that have been theorized to work throughout the years,” he said.

“There’s lots of papers and patents that have been put out. But we’re a lab where we actually put those theories to the test.”