Question: The Welcome Wagon helicopter brings a message in lights. Exactly how would that work, how do different light patterns communicate any message and who decided what patterns there would be?
Timothy Cheseborough
25th Nov 2003
Independence Day (1996)
Answer: This is also a homage to Close Encounters of the Third Kind where they communicate with the aliens via lights and sound.
Answer: The pattern of lights shows that we are an intelligent race. The lights would show a pattern and then become random. There isn't a message to speak of, but a demonstration of our intellect. Scientist would normally use the lights to represent a scientific equation or something of that nature. The aliens would respond by either mimicing the patterns, or producing a variation of the pattern we showed them.
Timothy Cheseborough