Texas community mistakes light show for aliens invasion

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[{"selector":"#anim-e8c512f1-50c8-44cb-8941-8dc0f2041567","keyframes":{"opacity":[0,1]},"delay":0,"duration":600,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] [{"selector":"#anim-2d0d45a8-268f-439c-b1e9-44725f4c4434","keyframes":{"transform":["translate3d(114.01274%, 0px, 0)","translate3d(0px, 0px, 0)"]},"delay":0,"duration":600,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] A Texas man routinely draws a crowd of onlookers to his home’s holiday light show spectacular — though half of the viewers expected to find aliens at their source.

[{"selector":"#anim-50857c6a-ffcb-417f-bbcd-c30cbb336e6f","keyframes":{"opacity":[0,1]},"delay":0,"duration":600,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] [{"selector":"#anim-d707aaa6-546e-40cf-8945-6f54facc63d0","keyframes":{"transform":["translate3d(115.92356%, 0px, 0)","translate3d(0px, 0px, 0)"]},"delay":0,"duration":600,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] Chris Hartgraves decked out his house with a massive Santa Claus, holiday music and, most importantly, 13,000 lights that stretch across the night sky and look eerily like UFOs hovering over Georgetown, a city 30 miles north of Austin.

“I started planning for it the day after Christmas last year.”

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“Everybody knows I save up my vacation time, and they know my vacation once a year is to actually just set up the lights.”

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“People thought it was Elon Musk and his Starlink.”

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