Though Ring cameras may have caught cheaters, kidnappers, and even deadly explosions, the Amazon subsidiary is ready to capture something even weirder this spooky season, tasking their customers with using their home security systems to prove the existence of Aliens.



The smart home system manufacturer headed to their website on Wednesday to announce their latest Halloween-themed challenge, offering a $1 million prize to a lucky UFO truther who manages to capture “unaltered Scientific Evidence of a real Extraterrestrial lifeform” on their indoor or outdoor Ring cameras.


“Whether it’s a video of an Extraterrestrial walking (or flying?) up your driveway and asking for directions or an unidentifiable lifeform exhibiting unusual and extraordinary behavior in your backyard—submit your best footage,” read a post shared to the company’s blog.


Though it’s unclear what, exactly “unaltered scientific evidence” entails — a winning entry for this contest wouldn’t be the first time Ring’s parent company would have thwarted an unflattering scientific finding and it probably wouldn’t be the last — the alien truther community found themselves more preoccupied with the question of Ring’s intentions.


While some, including Redditor u/quetzalcosiris heralded the contest as a move towards legitimacy — “Momentum is growing,” they wrote alongside a post they shared on r/UFO — others were much more skeptical, denouncing the entire challenge as an elaborate marketing scheme.


“How is a marketing campaign anchored by a gimmick contest by a doorbell company that they know nobody will ever win ‘momentum’"?” asked u/easy_Money, as u/hatethiscity dubbed the move as “one [heck] of a scheme to get people to buy more ring cameras.”


Meanwhile, u/HeyCarpy took this backlash a step further, arguing that promotions like these were actively harming believers in extraterrestrial life.


“I hate the carnival atmosphere around this topic,” they commented, citing “The -------- Las Vegas backyard aliens, the Mexican mummies, the MH370 videos.”


“There’s actual movement in Congress and in the intelligence community finally, but for some reason now we have to muddy the waters with all of this nonsense,” they continued. “I hate it.”


But whether or not this contest manages to prove that Aliens are out there, Redditor u/Teknicsrx7 raised one good point about Ring’s initiative — “If I got positive proof of extraterrestrial life and can’t bank more than 1 million off of it I’m a failure.”