Hey that would work too! Make up a new fashion that was all the rage.

Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.

A broken phaser prop from Star Trek TOS, along with one or two pages from the Star Fleet Technical Manual.

Frog skeleton with a tiny little top hat and cane.

How about some “authentic” Klingon weaponry?

One of that cans of peanut brittle with spring loaded snakes.
We’re gonna need a bigger box
Oh and the plans for that machine in Contact with a map showing where it was built, then bury some wreckage of the machine in the area.
A bunch of photoshopped pictures of human heads on dog bodies / dog heads on human bodies, with a 20 page document full of medical mumbo-jumbo describing the transplant experiments and a screed proclaiming that dogmen will soon rule the earth.