UFO researchers are not having an easy time these days. Between photos and videos that are easily doctored, the “truth” has never been harder to find. It makes matters worse when drones can just pretend to be UFOs. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully would be tearing their hair out today. Now these drones here can easily be mistaken for spaceships.

PBS Digital Studios channel Shanks FX has created some really cool UFO lighting effects. They attached a variety of light sources to a DJI Phantom 3 drone and the results are pretty awesome. Close Encounters of the Third Kind awesome.

The video shows how to attach and power different light sources to simulate that sci-fi space invader look. Something tells me that we will be seeing a lot more UFOs in the night sky.

[via Laughing Squid]