Watched Skyman (2013), directed and written by Daniel Myrick, writer of the original Blair Witch Project (1999).
Filmmakers are making a documentary on Carl Merryweather (played by Michael Selle: Get Shorty TV series) who claims to have encountered an alien during a famous UFO sighting 30 years earlier. Carl called the alien Skyman and has been ridiculed by neighbors since. He now believes that he had been recently contacted and told that he will have a second visit on his 40th birthday.
His survivalist father had purchased the location where the sighting occurred when he returned from active duty in Vietnam. He returns there on his birthday weekend with his younger sister and best friend, both of whom have doubts but continue to support him.
Not found footage, but made up of 'archival' news reports, home movies, and the video the 'filmmakers' took in the months leading up to the fateful day.
Well acted for such a low-budget project, if perhaps a bit long at just over 90 minutes. A couple of jump scares, but it's Carl's growing paranoia and events that happen at the campground that keeps you interested.
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