Let's face it, UFO visitation movies are fun to watch and spur the imagination. Nothing bolsters a UFO encounter movie more than filming the story as found footage—but why? The very notion that a film…Read More
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Two amateur ufologists investigate a woman's claim that aliens are watching her. This is that footage, compiled and released by The Civilian Department of Ufology, a privately owned UFO research and i…Read More
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Sometimes an audience doesn’t get the memo that a work of fiction is just that. Take Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds (1938), notorious for the panic it caused immediately after its broadcast. It’s…Read More
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This week we interview DEAN ALIOTO director and creator of UFO Abduction (1989) and Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998) [a.k.a. The McPherson Tape]. Dean Alioto walks us through the legend…Read More
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Most moviegoers consider The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007) as the very beginning of the found footage phenomenon. However, in 1989, ten years prior to The Blair Witch Proje…Read More
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The second part of our coverage of director Dean Alioto's two groundbreaking found footage films focuses on Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1999), the remake of UFO Abduction. Click here to…Read More
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“Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County” is a found footage horror/sci-fi made for TV film written and directed by Dean Alioto. The film follows a family whose Thanksgiving is disrupted by aliens th…Read More
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After contacting Dean Alioto in 1994, the television show Encounters aired a story on UFO Abduction. For the purposes of our historical research, this section includes quotes from the Encounters segme…Read More
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