Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)

Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape in Australia) is a pseudodocumentary horror film directed by Dean Alioto. It is a largerbudget 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 firsttime viewers, many of whom believed it portrayed real events, and did not realize it was fictional.