Looking further into an alleged UFO abduction that sneaked up on me in a folder of UFO events I have, I thought maybe I’d be able to explain it as a folie à deux, a form of hallucination sharing.
The episode is usually listed as the 1968 Buff Lake or Buff Ledge, Vermont abduction and has gained attention at these sites:
But then I came across a non-UFO site that indicated the whole thing was a camp counselor created hoax, not by the purported “victims” but by their fellow counselors: