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No. It is based on Gene Brewer's 1995 novel of the same name. However, there was a Plagiarism lawsuit claimed by Argentinian director Eliseo Subiela that K-Pax plagiarized his 1986 film "Man Facing Southeast".

The ability to see ultraviolet light is one among several unusual skills, abilities and events linked to Prot over the course of the film. If you exclude his appearance at the beginning of the film in the station (which might be explained by a trick of the eye, or spatial perception), other important scenes include:

• pre-foreknowledge of later events - such as the appearance of the blue bird outside the hospital shortly afterward to another patient; and citing Spanish and Hawaiian in his example of light-beam travel, when the scientists would go on to make oblique references to Chile and Hawaii only moments later.

• drawing an astronomical map for the same scientists, without any reference point other than his own memory and knowledge. Prot also used accurate scientific formulae to explain astronomical phenomenon the scientists hadn't even been able to understand yet, and which was inclusive of space telescope data they hadn't even released even to the public yet.

• Spontaneous disappearance, and re-appearance, at the hospital after Prot explained he was travelling to another country for a time: which would seemingly mean he bypassed all security protocols and security camera footage in the hospital effortlessly, to do so.

• visual static disruption of the security camera picture aimed at Prot, at the exact time he states he will make light beam travel back to K-Pax

The viewer is aware of all of these events, so the combined impact of them suggests no doubt to the observant watcher, that Prot's story of coming from outside our planet is very likely accurate, in some way.

However, part of the film's story likely is also trying to illustrate just how difficult everyday people find it to hold cognitive dissonance about two unlikely truths that occur at the same time. In this case, that Prot can be both Prot, and Robert Porter. This is something Prot himself alludes to towards the psychiatrist Mark, at one point in the film.

That Prot/Robert Porter is under psychiatric care is also likely an important point as to why his ultraviolet, and astronomical abilities, were not further explored. Unresolved, or suspected unresolved mental illness, under certain state and federal laws can be a powerful protective factor to prevent taking an individual into custody elsewhere.

As Prot had committed no crimes and broken no laws, police or the FBI cannot get involved. Prot's mental health professionals could then very likely decline any petition to examine Prot further before his "mental illness" had been certified as treated.

Although the film does not make any mention of it, it is possible Mark and/or other hospital staff had the power then to decline such petitions on this basis, on Prot's behalf.

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