Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)

Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape in Australia) is a pseudo-documentary horror film directed by Dean Alioto. It is a larger-budget version of The McPherson Tape, and originally aired on UPN on January 18, 1998. Kristian Ayre plays Tommy, a teenager in Lake County, Minnesota, who is making a home movie of his family’s Thanksgiving dinner when they are attacked and ultimately abducted by extraterrestrials. The film caused confusion and controversy among first-time viewers, many of whom believed it portrayed real events, and did not realize it was fictional.