flying saucer

Example Sentences

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In a work on paper, a flying saucer shoots neon-orange beams at a nuclear power plant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Let’s think about the terrifying theremin line that snakes through “Good Vibrations” like it’s tugging a flying saucer down onto Dockweiler Beach.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

Reports include a flying saucer seen from a guest house, a 7ft alien-like figure coming out of a hedge and a "cigar-shaped" UFO near a schoolyard.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023

The description was striking – a dark gray cube inside a clear sphere – quite different from the classic "flying saucer."

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2023

He said, too, that he had been kidnapped by a flying saucer in 1967.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut