10.10
In Robert Doherty’s novel, Area 51, portrays Turcotte at the beginning of the book suiting up for a Black Ops mission in a black helicopter to cover up a cattle mutilation.
In the video game Deus Ex, a black helicopter is the player’s primary form of transportation for much of the game.
On the pilot episode of the American television series South Park, a local farmer asks about “CIA Black Helicopters flying about” (as the episode’s plot includes a UFO encounter) to which police officer Barbrady replies “That was a pigeon” after three fly past behind him.
In episode 4 in the first series of the American television series King of the Hill, Dale Gribble claims a noise to be that of “one of those stealth helicopters with computerised noise-cancellation capability… they’re still workin’ the ‘chings’ out.” When Bill Dauterive asks him how he knows about stealth helicopters, Dale replies: “alt.conspiracy.black.helicopters”.
In the 1997 movie Conspiracy Theory, starring Mel Gibson as a New York City cabdriver, out of whose many conspiracy theories one turns out to be true and he’s chased by an obscure US Agency; after one of his purchases of The Catcher in the Rye, they pursue him using black helicopters.
In the Rooster Teeth Short, Secret Door, Matt references “Black Helicopters” and to look it up on Google after Gav accuses Burnie, Geoff and Gus of hiding something. Black helicopters are also frequently referenced on Rooster Teeth’s podcast, The Drunk Tank.
Canadian singer Matthew Good has a song called “Black Helicopter” on his 2007 album Hospital Music. The song contains the lines “Fall on me, black helicopter/You’re all I see.”