I just knew there was a reasonable explanation. :-)
I kinda like to stick to the Venus thing. A one time event. The thought of the dark side of the moon being a huge mirror (think ‘burning mirrors of Archimedes’) and that the aliens can spin the moon around and fry us like burning ants with a magnifying glass, or melting the poles just for the heck of it, frightens me. I don’t know why that is.