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How to Invite Aliens to Your Home

Do you dream, fantasize, or even obsess about the idea of having your very own close encounter with some real, green-blooded extraterrestrials? Well then, maybe it’s time to commit (not yourself—to the project!). Why not roll out the welcome mat in your own backyard by building an enormous sign that will snag the attention of those annoyingly skittish passing UFOs?

That, at least, is what a family in Romoland, CA, did, constructing a 60-by-90-foot “rock garden” on their property that, from the sky, looks just like your quintessential creepy, almond-eyed alien.

“My idea was to build this thing big enough to be seen from up there, and hopefully they’ll decide to come down and check it out,” Larry Decker, 77, told ABC News.

Decker added that he had cameras set up “all around his house” to capture this monumental meeting, if it ever happens.

“Wouldn’t it be nice to go to the porch swing and have a nice chat?” Decker said. “So hopefully this face will trick them to come, so we can shake hands and talk.”

Fine, so maybe this dude is a few bricks short of an ET-sign-building load. But apparently he’s got plenty of company, since the web is awash in admirably elaborate schemes to flag down UFOs and invite them to make a pit stop at your beloved home.

Since a rock garden would be tough to see at night when otherwordly beings seem to prefer flying by, most of the tactics to signal UFOs involve lights. Some alien enthusiasts say simple flashlights will do the trick; others insist it must be a strobe, flashed in a triangular formation. Still others insist your best odds lie with strategically deployed laser pens—apparently aliens will chase these lights just like cats!

Or, so goes a story shared in UFO Digest in 2016, two men near Rochester, NY, pointed a green laser pen at the moon … and strange stuff happened from there (cue in “X Files” theme music).

“Suddenly there was a point at which the laser had excited something,” reported one witnesses named “Brian.” “And that something looked like it was a large sparkler in the sky.”

Not that we’re recommending you head outside with your laser pen and point it at the sky. That’s because even if aliens love lasers, human pilots do not, because these lights can disorient them during flight. And the FBI has decreed that pointing lasers at aircraft—even if you think they’re UFOs—is a federal felony.

Or … is this all just a conspiracy to keep us from hailing aliens into our midst? As one theorist on Abovetopsecret.com put it, “The excuse behind that is that [it’s dangerous] for airplanes. … But airplanes are not criss-crossing above the whole surface of the earth. … Are we kept from something here?”

The answer, as they say, is out there. Somewhere. Maybe even in Larry Decker’s rock garden.

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