Just after dark, a single green light lifts off from behind the main stage and hangs over the field, perfectly still, for one long second. Then it drifts slowly across the crowd like a searchlight looking for someone in particular. It's only the drone crew warming up, but a voice near the rail yells, "Take me with you!" and a few hundred people laugh at once, because half of them came dressed for the pickup.
Look closer and you can spot who answered the call. Big-eyed faces peer out from a hoodie. A long-headed oracle glows down the back of a cloak. A purple snapback with a tiny alien on the front bobs along to the kick drum.
Aliens are pop culture's favorite strangers, and the dance floor adopted them long ago. Wearing one says you came a very long way for this set. This guide follows the visitor from a 1947 headline to the big-eyed grey, then opens the alien side of our wardrobe: two cloaks for the cool half of the night, an alien hoodie and shirt, and two complete alien rave outfits, all drawn by Magus and Lylyth Fawn.
Where did little green men and grey aliens come from?
Mostly from newspapers, pulp magazines and movies. A 1947 Army announcement in Roswell, New Mexico put a "flying disc" in the headlines, newspaper stories in 1938 and 1955 pinned "little green men" on visitors from space, and the big-eyed grey traveled from a 1960s abduction story in the papers to movie screens and book covers.
Roswell first. In July 1947, after a rancher found debris near the town, the Army Air Forces announced it had recovered a "flying disc," and the story went around the world before it was retracted within a day. The debris had come from a top-secret balloon train called Project Mogul, built to detect Soviet nuclear tests, and Air Force reports in the 1990s laid that out. The legend outlived the balloons, and Roswell now promotes itself to UFO-loving travelers as a destination. Honestly, we love a town that leans in.
The little green men landed even earlier. The day after Orson Welles's War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938, a Texas newspaper columnist joked about thirteen little green men from Mercury touching down at the local airfield for a good-will visit. In 1955, a paper writing up a reported encounter in rural Kentucky used the phrase even though the witnesses had described silvery beings, other outlets followed, and green stuck.
The grey arrived last: a hairless figure with a large head and huge black almond eyes. Wikipedia calls the grey "an iconic trope of popular culture" in the age of space exploration. The look first won fame in 1965, when newspapers reported an abduction claimed by Betty and Barney Hill. Greys then appeared in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, and a painted grey on the cover of Whitley Strieber's 1987 book Communion made that big-eyed face more popular still.
Here's our take as visionary artists: the alien works because it's a mirror. Those enormous eyes are pure curiosity, reflecting back whatever you bring. The two alien designs at the heart of this guide come at that from opposite directions. Alien Dimensions is a whole big-eyed crowd of visitors, playful and bright. Galactic Alien Oracle is one serene being drawn in fine filigree, closer to a temple icon than a movie poster.
What should a UFO cloak look like?
Like the visitor, not the spacecraft. A UFO cloak works best when the art shows the beings themselves, big eyes and all, printed from hood to hem so your whole silhouette reads otherworldly. Two Magus Fawn cloaks do exactly that: Galactic Alien Oracle, a serene oracle in violet filigree, and Alien Dimensions, a big-eyed crowd of visitors.
Both are $250 zip-up festival cloaks, made to order. Each has a micro-mink poly outer (listed fabric weight 200 g/m²), a faux-fur lining you choose in black or white, heavy drawstrings on the hood, a double front zipper, and four pockets: two deep side pockets plus two interior stash pockets, one of them zippered. The fit is unisex from XS to 5XL, and our men's and women's cloaks share the same spec.
The hero: Galactic Alien Oracle. The Galactic Alien Oracle Women's Cloak ($250) puts the visitor right between your shoulder blades. A calm, long-headed face gazes out from the middle of the back, crowned by a larger mask of pale linework, with open hands and glowing spheres gathered beneath it. Everything around the oracle is filigree in periwinkle, lavender and deep violet, fine as lace, curling all the way to the hemline. It reads like a stained-glass window from another solar system. The Galactic Alien Oracle Men's Cloak ($250) carries the same art, and our island psytrance story The Oracle and the Last Ferry follows this design across the water.
The crowd: Alien Dimensions. If the Oracle is one quiet visitor, the Alien Dimensions Men's Festival Cloak ($250) is the whole mothership unloading. Dozens of big-eyed aliens in sky blue, lavender, black and pink tumble over each other across every panel. On the back, a large lavender face presides at the center, Flower of Life rings in white and line-drawn geometry frame it above and below like landing beacons, and a gold five-pointed star glows near the hem. It's sold as a men's cloak with the same unisex fit, so anyone can join the welcome committee. Our Atacama stargazing story takes it under the Atacama's star-crowded sky.
George, who bought a cloak in our Madriax design, summed up the feel in May 2023: "So comfortable you almost forgot how cool it looks!"
Should you wear an alien hoodie or an alien shirt?
Wear the hoodie when the night cools down, and the shirt when the sun is up or the dance floor is packed. Magus Fawn has both in alien art: the Alien Dimensions cotton pullover hoodie for evenings and road trips, and the Galactic Alien Oracle T-shirt, in crushed velvet, cotton or jersey, for daytime sets and peak hour.
The alien hoodie. The Alien Dimensions Cotton Unisex Pullover Hoodie ($100) brings the same welcome committee in pullover form. A grinning lavender alien holds the center of the chest, blue and black visitors crowd in on every side, and Flower of Life rings in white thread between them like a map of how they all got here. It's 100% cotton (listed weight 310 g/m²) with the art dye-sublimated across every panel, plus a drawstring hood and a front kangaroo pouch, cut relaxed in sizes from XS up to 6XL. That cotton matters: traditional dye sublimation bonds only to polyester, which is why all-over-print festival wear has mostly been poly. Our cut-and-sew partners offer a newer process that puts the full print on cotton.
For the smallest visitors, the Galactic Alien Oracle kid's pullover hoodie ($75) puts the oracle in a smaller size. It's smooth 230 g/m² scuba knit with a drawstring-free hood (kid-safe), in 2XS–XL.
The alien shirt. The Galactic Alien Oracle Crushed Velvet T-Shirt ($60 in crushed velvet or cotton, $50 in poly jersey) takes the oracle out in daylight. The figure sits dead center on the chest, mirrored left and right like an inkblot that came out gorgeous, its long head haloed in pale filigree over lavender and violet. Choose crushed velvet (240 g/m²) and the pile ripples under stage lights; cotton (190 g/m²) and poly jersey (180 g/m²) are lighter picks for afternoon sun. All three are crew-neck tees in XS–5XL.
What do you wear to an alien-themed rave?
Dress like the visitor everyone wants to meet. Magus Fawn's alien art lives in lavender, violet, periwinkle and sky blue, so build on two printed pieces in the same design, a base and a layer, then add a hat with a tiny alien on it. Keep a cloak or hoodie close for the temperature drop after midnight.
Outfit one: the oracle at golden hour. Start with the Galactic Alien Oracle V-neck Bodysuit ($55). A glowing orb sits at the breastbone, and the oracle's periwinkle and violet filigree branches out from it in perfect symmetry, flashing silver all the way down to a small starburst at the hip. It's a 180 g/m² microfiber (95% polyester, 5% spandex) with a deep V-neck, an open back and a snap closure, sized XS–2XL. Over it, float the Galactic Alien Oracle chiffon kimono ($75), a featherweight 80 g/m² chiffon in the same indigo and lavender swirls, with long cuffed sleeves and an adjustable waist belt, S–5XL. Wear it open while you dance and belted for the walk back to camp. Finish with iridescent boots, like the pair in our hero cloak photo, and you're the oracle's earthly representative.
Outfit two: the welcome committee after dark. For a cooler night, go full Alien Dimensions from the waist down with the Alien Dimensions joggers ($100; $105 in 2XL, $108 in 3XL). Almond-eyed visitors crowd both legs from hip to ankle, Flower of Life lines in white keep the whole procession connected, and gold stars twinkle just above the cuffs. They have a cotton-feel face over brushed vegan fleece (listed fabric weight 308 g/m², 96% recycled poly with 4% elastane), side pockets, cuffed ankles and an elastic waist with a drawstring. The fit is slim, XS–3XL; order 1–2 sizes up for a looser fit. Pair them with a plain black tee and the Alien Dimensions cloak, and let the legs do the talking.
The hat for both. Top either outfit with the Alien Mycelium Purple snapback ($40). The front panel is a tiny forest shrine drawn in violet and black: a small alien keeps watch from the top, three mushroom caps rise beneath it, and glyph-style lettering runs along each side. The brim is black, patterned in a fine lattice. Mycelium is the underground web that links a forest together, and the design casts it as a cosmic connection, with visitors above, forest below and one network running through both. It's a light polyester cap (150 g/m²) that adjusts at the back with a plastic strap, one size fits most. The same art also comes in four more colorways.
Room for layers, art that lasts
Our FAQ suggests sizing up for outerwear like cloaks and hoodies, "sometimes even 2 sizes up to fit extra layers under." The cotton hoodie runs to 6XL and the cloaks to 5XL, so there's room to go big. Expect 3–5% shrinkage on the first wash of cotton pieces, so wash them cold and let them air dry. Between sizes? Email your measurements to art@magusfawn.com; we typically respond within 1–2 business days.
Everything in this guide is made to order: production takes 7–11 business days, then delivery takes 6–14 business days. US shipping is free on orders of $70 and up ($8 below that), and international shipping starts at $10. All sales are final, which makes that quick sizing email the smartest minute of your whole order.
Care is the same for every piece: machine wash cold with like colors, skip the bleach, tumble dry low or hang dry, and don't iron or dry clean. The art is dye-sublimated into the fiber instead of sitting on top, so your aliens won't crack or fade. Our cloak washing guide covers the details.
Take me to your dance floor
Back under that green light, the drone show has found its audience. Its glow slides across a long-headed oracle on a cloak, a crowd of big-eyed visitors on a hoodie, a tiny alien riding a violet cap, and every one of them is dancing. That's the whole joy of alien clothing: the stranger from the old headlines and pulp covers, finally invited to the party.
Pick your visitor, pull up the hood, and come say hello to the rest of the tribe.
Explore the collections: women's cloaks · men's cloaks · all festival cloaks · hooded blankets
More alien reading: psychedelic hoodies by art style and The Stranger at the Low-Water Crossing, a canyon psytrance story
Frequently asked questions
Where does the term flying saucer come from?
From a pilot's report in the summer of 1947. On June 24, private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine gleaming objects moving in a long chain past Mount Rainier in Washington, and the press turned his description into the terms "flying saucer" and "flying disc." It was the first postwar American sighting to draw nationwide news coverage.
What is World UFO Day?
World UFO Day is an annual day for celebrating UFOs, usually with sky-watching and parties. Some people mark it on June 24, the anniversary of Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting, and others on July 2, a date tied to the Roswell incident. The World UFO Day Organisation declared July 2 the official date.
Why are aliens often drawn green?
Writers were painting them green long before UFOs. Washington Irving described men from the Moon as "pea green" in 1809, Edgar Rice Burroughs filled Mars with towering green Martians in 1912, and green aliens decorated science fiction pulp magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1950s. Newspapers then attached "little green men" to UFO stories.
Why are grey aliens called Zeta Reticulans?
The nickname goes back to 1969. Betty Hill, who with her husband Barney claimed a 1961 alien abduction, said under hypnosis that she had been shown a star map. Schoolteacher Marjorie Fish built a model from Hill's drawing and concluded that the home stars were Zeta Reticuli, a real binary star system. The name has followed greys ever since.
Written by Magus & Lylyth Fawn, the Los Angeles artists behind Magus Fawn. Magus makes VR and digital visionary art and produces Psy EDM. Lylyth makes fractal digital art and runs design and customer care. We've been selling wearable art since 2020 (4.8★ from 147 reviews as of October 2026), and every piece is made to order here at magusfawn.com. Come say hi on Instagram @magusfawn.
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