Building a flying saucer UFO for Halloween

Sometimes you just want a UFO. The store doesn't sell them, so you can just make it! Here is a list of the lights and things inside it:
Perimeter LED light strip: amzn.to/3o8cqGk
Fog machine: amzn.to/3o73IYV
Party laser: amzn.to/2HjxjNS
Alien head: amzn.to/2HqpeXB
Cooling fans: amzn.to/31nxuPe
Fan power supply: amzn.to/2Hgfijv
Power cord: amzn.to/2T7UGN8
Brads: amzn.to/31q4Pt2
Aluminum foil: amzn.to/3kjlLbW

[@Simnettnutrition]

I came to this channel to learn how to fix my Rav4 and tune my scooter, and now I can travel inter dimensionally.

[@Spork1114]

I lold way too hard from this comment! Gotta love Paul, though! The world needs more people like him.

[@bighomieglo423]

Same

[@ConspiracyTheo]

Totally awesome. As a self-proclaimed UFO expert, I can say with certainty that this is accurate to how the aliens do it.

[@LittleFeet21-e5h]

"Just like my tinder dates, this thing looks better in the dark" 😂😂😂

[@Nords1982]

Im going to try this with 2 very large aluminum satellite dishs welded together. basically make it look like a ufo crash landed in my front yard, dead aliens and beers cans scattered. maybe MIB cleaning the mess. happy Halloween 😂

[@vetteboy1024]

You’re a trip. Love your humor. Keep up the great content.

[@unemployedgringo]

"Just like tinder dates, this thing looks much better in the dark" 😂😂

[@Walter-wo5sz]

It's all fun & games until the probing starts.

[@welcome2myworld1.o89]

Oh my gosh! That thing is sick!! Wow!

[@BeatsFromChicago]

Would have been easier to use PVC and misc adapters, splitters and ends. Much lighter too. Yours is insanely good. I might make a small one for living room ceiling light

[@LabCoatPaul]

Thanks! PVC pipes are actually heavier than the 1/2" ID steel electrical conduit I used. PVC is more flexible, so I might have been able to make a circle instead of a 15 sided shape, but the adapters get pretty expensive. The electrical conduit cost me $3 per 10 foot section.

[@weetzybat]

PVC is carcinogenic so it's good he didn't

[@samanthapicou889]

Damn you did an awesome job! So cool

[@BrotherJoseph-rd2sb]

That’s pretty cool!!!

[@enzoborghetto734]

This video is awesome dude!! This should definitely have way more views 👍🏻

[@LabCoatPaul]

Thanks! Share it with your friends!

[@Stephenzaffarano]

I will be building mine using our old trampoline ring: it's currently being used to mark our stone firepit area but about to become an intergalactic vehicle!! 18' diameter!! (How the heck am I going to hang THAT between two trees??!) Nice work!!

[@flysus4011]

Plus all your jokes are great 😂 nasa using aluminum foil and duct tape for ducks

[@LabCoatPaul]

Thanks! UFOs are fun!

[@latenightdiy1496]

Omg this is amazing. I want one.

[@KathrynFarrell355]

I love it. Im going to make something similar thanks. And you are funny.

[@Borderlands808]

I’m here before 1 million. Looks awesome!

[@denisefantozzi4274]

This is SOOO amazing!! My husband and I also want to build one of these! I know you said the diameter is 30 feet, but can you also tell me the dimensions of the supporting pieces that make up the sides of the spaceship? How "tall" is the spaceship? Thank you!

[@LabCoatPaul]

The perimeter of the UFO is made of three 10 foot long 1/2" inside diameter steel electrical conduit. That means the perimeter, or circumference is about 30 feet. The diameter is 9.5 feet. The height of the UFO is 40 inches.

[@denisefantozzi4274]

@@LabCoatPaul Thank you, Paul!

[@lyssaz4241]

Best. Intro. Ever.

[@denisefantozzi4274]

Hi again! So we put this spaceship together and it's awesome, but the fog machine we bought (same one as in your list of supplies) doesn't emit fog unless you press the remote button and even when the fog DOES come out it never creates enough of it to blow out through the fans. Do you think we got a defective fog machine or is there something I'm missing? Thanks in advance for your help!

[@LabCoatPaul]

Oh wow, you built the same UFO? That's awesome! The amount of fog from my fog machine is also not very impressive. It takes about 5 minutes to heat up, makes a little bit of fog, and you have to wait 3 more minutes before it will make fog again. I like the light feature of the fog machine, but the remote for the lights doesn't work very well either. Maybe you can return it and try a different fog machine. After I put the UFO outside, I realized it needs to be waterproof, so I added clear plastic sheeting over all the holes on top. I cut out a pentagon to go around the alien and taped it down with chrome colored duct tape. I also covered all the small triangles with plastic. This made the UFO resistant to rain and snow and improved the fog situation because it wasn't escaping through the top.

[@psychologyhealingonline3939]

My variants sometimes similar i view.

[@flysus4011]

Love the video great stuff, these small projects take me back to holloweens in 1990s

[@jackass1650]

Where did you get those lights around the edge that chase like that ....great build

[@stitchem7]

What a cool Halloween gag, that was great.

[@TheMockAgenda]

haha, that's so rad

[@heiituaku]

is that an alien or your imaginary friends? LOL keep the great work Paul

[@LabCoatPaul]

Some people make friends. I literally MAKE my friends. :)

[@theophrastus2766]

This is incredible, Paul! Great job! It has inspired me to try my own this year (fitting, with all the recent alien-stuff in the news). You've already been asked this a few times, but the fans and power source... I've never tried something like that, is it terribly hard to do? You just need the one plug adapter for all 15 fans?! I'm trying to find a tutorial somewhere, if you happen to know of one it would be much appreciated. Can't wait to see your next project!

[@ramjpg]

Really cool idea I like how you used conduit you could even make it without welding there’s a company in the USA called MakerPipe that makes structural connectors for conduit

[@kcbroncohater]

I use a hose off my SHOP VAC and ran one to the far edge of the UFO in three places. I can turn it on and off at will with the remote. It shoots out a stream of fog, it looks way cool.

[@keithautry960]

You need to put a cow or something under the UFO like it is being beamed up....LOL

[@yelenabaykova7419]

Freaking awesome!!!!!!!!

[@sigma_799]

you are an absolute genius

[@PTPENDING]

Did you have to buy separate power for each fan?

[@steveni1459]

love your ufo guys if i had the room would have one awesome..

[@SmoothVee70]

Crazy! And I mean that on the most excellent way. Can I borrow that thing?

[@LabCoatPaul]

Thanks! I'm glad you like the UFO. I sold it a couple years ago, so you'll have to make one.

[@edisonlima4154]

​@@LabCoatPaul sou do Brasileiro e to ti dando parabéns ecelente seu trabalho

[@amybadia6786]

Great job! Cardboard and duct tape; you are my kinda guy! Lol I made the scary Halloween trees from a different KZbin channel and found out that I really like contact cement as well. Thank you for the inspiration.

[@DLong-ow3lb]

Looks amazing! How did it hold up in the elements?

[@LabCoatPaul]

Thanks! The UFO has been outside for 7 months now. I covered the openings in the top with clear plastic sheeting to waterproof it shortly after building it. It has survived several rain storms, a foot of snow on top of it, and a couple wind storms up to 40mph. I'm surprised how tough the UFO is. The cardboard on top is starting to sag a bit and the aluminum foil is wrinkled now. I had to repair the perimeter LED light strip twice (cheap Amazon LED strip). Everything on the UFO still works, and it looks amazing at night.

[@bighomieglo423]

@@LabCoatPaul the finished thing was so good I thought it was cgi at first

[@znentitan4032]

Reminds me of the old TV show "The Invaders" (A Quinn-Martin Production)

[@PNWdude777]

Wow, frickin' out of this world!! 👍👏👽👽

[@setnok2106]

I keep making Tinder profiles trying to match with Paul.

[@cyberneticinterfacemodular3996]

You can easy get it to fly by remote control it would look great.

[@gageblymyer]

See? Even aliens think texting and driving is dangerous! 😂

[@amybadia6786]

He should have a sign that says “Don’t text and fly”.

[@gageblymyer]

"ET phone home...except when in car..."

[@nicksavage4763]

Does look Good Too many colors For realism 🎃

[@LabCoatPaul]

Have you seen a real UFO?

[@nicksavage4763]

@@LabCoatPaul Yes, Years ago

[@g2190132]

What happened to the RAV4? Are you going to repair it?

[@LabCoatPaul]

The RAV4 is running again! I'm still finishing up the video. It's very detailed. You'll understand why it took so long when you see it.

[@daniellongsworth4484]

Cool!

[@therage2203]

The inner section frame work. how tall is it?

[@hobbithawes2142]

I'm going to do something like this for a Mardi Gras float

[@miguelsalami]

Now all you need is some Element 15 then you're good to go 👽

[@mattpage7547]

Do you have a picture of how you connected the fans to the power supply?

[@LabCoatPaul]

I didn't take a picture, but the fans I used had 3 wires: positive, negative, and sensor. amzn.to/2SemjXX The sensor wire has a stripe on these fans. Don't connect that one. The other wires are +12v and negative. You can guess the other wires by connecting them to the power supply, but connecting +12v to the sensor wire will fry the fan circuit board.

[@ratanaksambathkhem]

I wanna dj there ! or is it for sale?

[@robertdawkins6365]

The begin is crazy

[@hecks80944]

This is awesome 👏

[@Rylee.Reichert]

Idk if i should do a graveyard theme or a zombie theme or a ufo theme

[@miguel7152]

the effort

[@Miss_E]

I’m going to try and make this. Wish me luck!

[@LabCoatPaul]

The UFO is an awesome project! Good luck!

[@coloradoprospecting1034]

Wow that's badass

[@paulaliz2010]

Hey how much tim it took you to build it and how much did you spent in total? 2 days and 200€ maybe? just asking because my director would like to have something similar and i need to calculate time and money for this :) would be awesome to get some infos!

[@LabCoatPaul]

Building the UFO took 30 hours of labor and $600. It took me 2 weeks to get it done. I built the UFO in my free time after work, and I had it mostly done in 1 week. I spent the second week adding computer cooling fans to blow the fog down and making sure all the lights work. Fog machines heat up vegetable oil to make the "fog" and it rises because it's hot. The fans force the fog to go under the UFO instead of having all of it rise up through the top. I made at least 10 trips to the store to buy more silver duck tape. Wal-mart has a good deal on 33 yard rolls or tape. Amazon sells the tiny 10 yard rolls and they're overpriced. They charge 4x as much per yard. I used about 200 yards of silver tape." Here are the other parts: Perimeter LED light strip: amzn.to/3o8cqGk Fog machine: amzn.to/3o73IYV Party laser: amzn.to/2HjxjNS Alien head: amzn.to/2HqpeXB Cooling fans: amzn.to/31nxuPe Fan power supply: amzn.to/2Hgfijv Power cord: amzn.to/2T7UGN8 Brads: amzn.to/31q4Pt2 Aluminum foil: amzn.to/3kjlLbW

[@paulaliz2010]

THANK YOU SOO MUCH@@LabCoatPaul !!!! wow i was hoping to get an answer but that i get such detailed information is really amazing. It helps a lot! best wishes from the other universe ;)

[@beammeupscotty9858]

How many pipes did you use and how many fittings?

[@LabCoatPaul]

I don't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere between 12 and 16 pieces of 10 ft long 1/2" inside diameter steel electrical conduit. I only used 5 couplers.

[@paulfuryes203]

Very cool.

[@amunhotep3]

That’s hot

[@agrodpodnk7054]

Wow imagine adding a drone onto this

[@LabCoatPaul]

A drone based UFO has been made before on KZbin, but it wasn't very good. If only I had more money, I would make this actually fly.

[@WarlockCore]

nice job

[@beaudeeley]

Amazeballs! 🛸🛸🛸

[@Ufo-q6q]

Ufos Are best

[@mtroy0620]

Super cool

[@RigelsOverlord]

That is awesome

[@thetransonics]

This is awesome! :)

[@hobbithawes2142]

Badass!

[@edg6928]

Hey Paul, how is the rav4?

[@LabCoatPaul]

It's still waiting on parts. I'm replacing the cylinder head and timing belt.

[@edg6928]

Awesome! I’m currently replacing the struts and springs on my 97 rav4.

[@LabCoatPaul]

@@edg6928 Sweet! You can watch my lift kit video if you need any help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWLKmmyepKije6s

[@edg6928]

Yeah already did so! I would love to buy the old men emu lift kit myself, only it isn’t available in the Netherlands. And the cost for shipping from the USA are tremendous. I do have a snorkel on mine though!

[@sonic5773]

Your amazing bro

[@IsmaelHinojos]

Love it

[@LabCoatPaul]

Thanks! The UFO is pretty awesome.

[@Alium4060Obero]

1:29THATS NOT HOW YOUR SUPPOSED TO USE IT

[@silkboxing4454]

Land it and Have a green dwarf pop out of that thing at a Baseball game

[@Scott.Roewer]

I'm guessing you live somewhere that water isn't an issue? Cardboard would never last during the halloween season here.

[@LabCoatPaul]

I live in Salt Lake City, UT so it's not very humid here, although the UFO has been through several rain storms and at one point had over a foot of snow on it. The outside has 2 layers of aluminum foil and lots of duct tape, so it's pretty much waterproof. That being said, after 8 months of being outside, the cardboard started to sag and the aluminum foil looks wrinkled now.

[@crazyme6342]

Ok so cool

[@Spinozin]

You are super sick

[@NazNaz-wx9vj]

❤🕋🧠 Iftikhar Iqbal Sawan

[@weezyalexYo]

We have the technology to make a ufo now a days, made out of the same way the magnetic 🧲 technology from the railroad From China concept that train can travel 300 mph or 500mph?? well take that rail road into a circle ⭕️ Pretty big size right? So imagine that railroad in circle spinning around 300 mph ⭕️ and in the middle filled in with fin fan kinda like a turbine , now imagine the force of air!? N above it the cockpit n controls lithium battery’s etc ,wouldn’t that work ??

[@LabCoatPaul]

A magnetic railroad track in a circle is the same thing as an electric motor. Usually motors have a shaft in the middle but it is possible to move all the electrical windings to the outside. It would look cooler and be way more expensive. Not sure if it would be any better though. A drone or a helicopter is also the similar to what you're talking about.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

😮 Nah