UFO Invasion at Area 51 Halloween Display

For this Area 51 Theme, I couldn't decide if I wanted the UFO to be flying or look like it had just landed, so I built both. The full-scale, main ship was nine feet tall and thirteen feet wide. It had three aliens (six inches tall) emerging down a ramp. The second craft was 2/3 scale and was twenty five feet off the ground with a rope and pulley system. They were made out of used patio umbrellas for the body, kiddie umbrellas for the dome, scrap metal/wood, pvc pipe, old garbage can lids, pie plates, empty two-liter pop bottles and lots and lots of metallic spray paint. I dressed the scene with strobes, a fog machine, black light, gobo projector and pin spots from work (I own an entertainment company in Lansing Michigan called JAMMIN' DJs) along with LED Christmas lights and sound activated lasers (just glorified laser pointers). Of course, there was a half hour loop of sound effects and theme music that tied it all together.