Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County

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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County
Directed by	Dean Alioto
Written by	Dean Alioto (story) Paul Chitlik (teleplay)
Starring	Benz Antoine Kristian Ayre Gillian Barber Michael Buie Emmanuelle Chriqui Marya Delver Katlyn Ducharme Ingrid Kavelaars Aaron Pearl Bart Anderson
Release date(s)	20 January 1998
Country	USA
Language	English
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County is a faux documentary that was shown on the UPN network in 1998. Directed by Dean Alioto, the film portrays a family named the McPhersons being abducted by extra-terrestrials. It is a recreation of The McPherson Tape, a home video that was claimed to depict an alien abduction. The fact that it is a recreation of another tape has led to confusion over which was the original tape. The entire incident was filmed on a home video camera to appear as though it was a film of actual events.

Some evidence that this program (shown on the UPN network) was a production:

All characters have actors credited in playing them.
Said actors have rather extensive resumes of their acting work.
In the scenes where the McPherson boys are running from aliens, the camera is tracking smoothly along the ground.
On two occasions, the camcorder's clock shows a full minute elapse even when there have been edits in the scene, which would have caused an actual time counter to skip ahead.
The light ball that flies around the house casts no shadows, and appears identical to the lens flare filter used by some digital editing programs.
At the end of the film, you are given a "555" number to call if you have seen the family.
Director Dean Alioto has himself stated that the film was a staged production. [1]