Alien Abduction (also known under the working title of The Morris Family Abduction) is a 2014 American found-footage science fiction horror film and the directorial debut of Matty Beckerman. The movie was released to VOD on April 4, 2014, and also had a limited theatrical run. The film stars Riley Polanski as an autistic 11-year-old boy who records his ordeal as an alien abductee.
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In a flash-forward, a figure grabs a camera and walks through a murky corridor with audible human screams. The figure puts the camera in a disposal chute, which opens into space in Earth orbit, and the camera falls to Earth. Information on-screen then reveals the footage about to be screened is being used as part of Project Blue Book, regarding an incident in 2011 where 27 people vanished near Brown Mountain, North Carolina.
Riley Morris, an autistic boy, keeps a video journal while on a family camping trip to Brown Mountain with his father Peter, his mother Katie, and his siblings Corey and Jillian. On the first night of their trip, Riley is startled by flashes of light outside of the tent in the middle of the night, and all three siblings watch three stationary lights in the sky that suddenly move away and vanish.
Driving to their next camping site on a foggy mountain road the following morning, the family are sidetracked when their GPS mysteriously misdirects them to an isolated route. They lose their cellphone signals, and the car eventually runs low on gas. A dead crow unexpectedly falls beside the car, shortly before the family reach a tunnel that is blocked by recently-abandoned vehicles. Peter, Corey and Riley leave their car to investigate, while Katie stays behind with Jillian. Personal belongings are scattered around some of the empty cars, and it appears the missing occupants were forcefully removed from their vehicles. Peter sees a humanoid silhouette at the end of the tunnel and calls out. Upon realizing the approaching figure is not human, he tells the boys to run. He is engulfed in light and convulses before disappearing.
