flying saucer

noun

plural flying saucers

: any of various unidentified flying objects usually described as being saucer-shaped or disk-shaped

Raël claims that in December of 1973, in the dish of a French volcano called Puy-de-Lassolas, he was taken onto a flying saucer, where he met a four-foot humanoid extraterrestrial …

—Toby Lester

Examples of flying saucer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Some see frogs crawling up its hulking brick wall; others swear a flying saucer is rising from the colorful blobs. — Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026

The famous question Fermi asked many years ago in the wake of the UFO craze and the Roswell incident and all of these sightings of flying saucers. — Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2026

Is there any bigger money shot than a city-sized flying saucer poised over the White House delivering a lethal laser blast of searing coherent light? — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 3 July 2026

On July 7, 1947, soldiers at the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) in New Mexico recovered the remains of a flying saucer that had crashed on a local ranch. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for flying saucer

• crosser
• rosser

Kids Definition

flying saucer

noun

: any of various unidentified flying objects often reported to be saucer-shaped or disk-shaped