Alien Abduction The McPherson Tape, also known as Alien Abduction Incident in Lake County is a video that is supposedly a re-enactment of an alien abduction of the McPherson family in Montana. The video has more than one version, with the first showing up on UPN network in January 1998.

Alien Abduction The McPherson Tape is done in the same style of video as the Blair Witch Product, which makes it seem more realistic. The way it starts, the family is gathered around getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving when the power goes off and three of the brothers go to investigate. They find the aliens and the aliens follow them home. What follows from there is that the aliens and the family get into a fight and the family is ultimately abducted, never to be seen again.

While Alien Abduction The McPherson Tape appears to be faked, it is said to loosely depict a real abduction that took place in August of 1955, then the home of Billy Rae Taylor was attacked by a bunch of aliens known as the Greys. The family survives unscathed, and was interrogated by authorities and found to be drug free and sane.

Others have suggested that the Alien Abduction The McPherson Tape was influenced by a book called, “Mysteries of the Unknown: The UFO Phenomenon” which also has incidents in it that are similar to the movie.
When the movie first came out, many people thought it was real, and some still do. There has been controversy about this due to the way it was presented, plus, in some markets it was aired without credits, which made it impossible to see that actors were playing the parts of the family and the aliens.

In time, Alien Abduction The McPherson Tape was proven to be fake, in part due to a conversation with the Lake County Sheriff’s office in Montana proving that no one names McPherson had even lived in that area during the timeframe the family was supposedly abducted by the aliens.

To this day, people are still arguing about the authenticity of Alien Abduction The McPherson Tape, but the evidence appears to point to it being an elaborate hoax. However, it is an interesting look at alien abduction and is real enough to have frightened many viewers.

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.