Hi, there’s a movie I saw long time ago, but barely remember anything but some flashes.
Probably a American movie, there is a “nerd” boy trying to contact something in the sky with a machine he somehow created.
By some way, he and a bunch of 5 or 6 other teens, are in some kind of museum or something, they can see strange creatures behind the crystals.
Maybe at the beginning of the movie there is a party, I guess this kid travels somehow to the space with this group and became friends at the end.
Perhaps: Explorers (1985) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/