flying saucer
Noun
Meaning
an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
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Where have I been? I've been on my flying saucer tour. Which means like flying saucers I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately...no one doubts my existence.
It was seeing the science-fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, about a spaceman who comes to Earth in a flying saucer to save us from self-destruction in a nuclear war.
Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.
A flying saucer appears, and a cat-like being uses some kind of gun to repel the waves.
Following on a whim a sign advertising a "flying saucer symposium", Paul and Margo fall in with a group of intellectuals, dreamers, charlatans and misfits.
The reviewer wrote, The recurrent enigma of the flying saucer is finally solved when an aerial pieplate is caught with its exhaust down by the F. B. I. of 2007.