In 1998, The UPN network presented a documentary titled Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County in which depicts the McPherson family being abducted by Aliens.
This recreation of a supposed real tape was filmed using home video to give the appearance of the taping of actual events and has thus led to confusion about its validity. The question remains of where the real tape, if there is one, can be found.
The tape tells the story of the McPherson family gathered for Thanksgiving dinner. The camera is situated in Tommy's left hand. The power goes out. Kurt and Brian go to check the fuses; Tommy follows with his camera. Brian makes attempts to open the box and gets burned. A transformer atop a pole down the road is throwing sparks. Tommy's camera finds eerie lights in the woods. They go investigate.
They find a UFO in a field nearby. Two aliens exit the ship and zap some cows with ray guns. The boys rush back to the house. The men gather some shotguns. Suddenly, there a high-pitched noise and everyone but six-year-old Rose is affected. After strapping a flashlight to his gun barrel, Kurt grabs some keys. He is going to get the SUV and they are all going to leave.
Kurt goes outside; Tommy follows. The truck doesn't start. They try to check the engine, but a light flashes starts smoking. He opens the hood to discover a melted battery. They return to the house. The family is gathered in the living room. Crawling sounds are head on the roof. Kurt leads the way up the stairs, where he is greeted by laser blasts and responds with shotgun blasts. He tells everyone to go downstairs.
A ball of light comes into the house and knocks Renee into a deep sleep. The men leave to find help. The tape jumps ahead an hour and they suffer some lost time. Gunshots can be heard outside and the power starts to flicker. Everyone starts feeling a burning sensation on the backs of their necks. They discover triangle-shaped burns.
Everyone is now hysterical as more shots can be heard outside. Tommy goes outside to discover a couple of mangled shotguns but not his brothers. The camera turns to the woods where we can see strange lights and two figures approaching. Everyone goes back in the house; they barricade the door. The camera is set down and the picture goes black.
Tommy then gives a tearful testimonial and wonders if he'll live to see tomorrow. He searches all the rooms and his bedroom and then suddenly comes face-to-face with an alien. He drops and we see Tommy frozen in a trance-like state. The tape stops. The family and their guests haven't been seen since.
The tape is a depiction of a supposedly real incident; the actors' credits roll at the end. There are many components from pop-culture's alien abduction scenario and that makes this tape a bit suspicious. Whatever you believe, this is an eerie and highly entertaining piece of footage.
This is a nearly two hour talk with JOE MONTALDO, the national director for I.C.A.R. (International Comunity for Alien Research), who is considered one of the leading authorities on alien abductions, star children, alien types and UFOs.
Once a field investigator for MUFON, Montaldo quickly learned that not all information was available to the public, and because he desired to share unique information with others, he created his own organization, the International Community for Alien Research – (ICAR).
With more than eleven countries participating with ICAR as members and investigators, Joe is privy to extraordinary cases that involve contact, and alien abductions.
This maybe the most well-known real Alien abduction story started on the evening of the September 19th through the morning of the 20th 1960 when Barney and Betty Hill were driving home down Route 3 coming home from vacation in Canada and northern New York.
While driving the long way back to there home in New Hampshire Betty Hill noticed a bright light in the sky that seemed to be following at a distance behind them.
Barney figured it was simply a bright star, satellite, or perhaps an aircraft heading to the Pease Air Force base in Portsmouth, NH.
After noticing the object doing strange maneuvers in the sky such as speeding up slowing down and going up and down they started getting a little curious about this Unidentified Flying Object and decided to stop, walk the dog and get a closer look at the object through there binoculars...
Betty Hill, under posthypnotic suggestion, was able to drawa "star map" detailing the origin of the alien abductors.
The amazing configuration of Betty's map was not to be realized for some years.
An astronomical investigation, based on information that was not available in 1961, produced a controversial match between Betty's "star map" and a cluster of previously unknown stars near two stars called Zeta Reticuli.
