Media1998

UPN airs Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County

When: 20 Jan 1998
Sources: 1 public source

UPN aired the mock documentary Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, a TV remake of Dean Alioto's 1989 McPherson Tape. Many viewers took it as real and some local papers ran notices that it was fiction, while some UFO researchers, including Stanton Friedman, argued it reflected a real tape.

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OtherCan We Talk About How People Thought 'The McPherson Tape' Was Real? (opens in a new tab)Dread Central / 2022-08-05

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