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Iirc it becomes progressively more obvious to her. Character development and audience relatability
It does not. She is stalwart in her skepticism.
I'll grant your recollection a bit of leeway because when she's part of the action, she does believe. That was true from the very beginning though.
She just writes it off at the end and continues to be skeptical about every new weird thing. After a few monsters, I would start believing whatever Mulder thought.
He's not always right because he always jumps to aliens, but if she came to realize that monsters are real in her universe, she'd be a much better scientist.
Edit: I'm glad this got the support it needed. This response was pretty far down voted for a while. I know Internet forums can (and hopefully should) never be the arbiters of our understanding of truth, but positive communication is very important IMO.
By season 8 she's so convinced she's essentially Mulder. She has times where she's more or less convinced until then, but it's a trajectory towards believing until she does. It just takes her a really long time.
Then, the next episode, she doesn't believe.
Every. Single. Time.