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== Anime and Manga ==
* For some reason, the [[wikipedia:Image:George Adamski ship 1.jpg|"Adamski" style flying saucer]] seems to have become iconic in Japanese pop culture, showing up in anime as different as ''[[Niea UnderNieA 7]]'' and ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''.
* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'': Yuno gets abducted by aliens in said Adamski flying saucer while napping on the school roof, but it is [[All Just a Dream]] ([[Or Was It a Dream?|or was it?]])
* The [[Big Bad]] in the second ''[[Kochikame]]'' movie uses a flying saucer capable of creating tornadoes from underneath to terrorize parts of Japan.
* One of these is piloted by a stereotypical 'grey' alien (as opposed to the more normal aliens) in an episode of the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' manga.
 
 
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== Film ==
* In ''[[Independence Day]]'', the Alien Invaders nuke cities by directing a [[Wave Motion Gun]] down from the centre of their ships.
* ''[[Plan Nine9 Fromfrom Outer Space]]'', although nonsensically, one of the saucers is described as "cigar-shaped", when it clearly isn't.
** They clearly have some kind of shape-shifting mode, since the scenes with people entering through its hatch show it with flat sides at 90-degree angles, much like a... shed of some sort!
* The ''humans'' have one in ''[[Forbidden Planet]]''. Specifically, [http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2008/12/21/a-christmas-story-of-flying-saucers-tree-lights/ United Planets Cruiser C-57D].
* And who can forget Exeter's ship from ''[[This Island Earth]]'', which could readily be described as a flying cowboy hat!
* ''[[The Thing Fromfrom Another World]]'' (1951). The search team position themselves around the edge of the crashed 'aircraft' under the ice and realise they're forming a perfect circle, whereupon they become quite excited at having "finally found one".
** Also appears in [[John Carpenter]]'s ''[[The Thing (Filmfilm)|The Thing]]'', where the guys find it in the bottom of an enormous crater. There was also {{spoiler|the Blair-Thing's hommade craft, though it is blown up before it can be used. Also some have speculated that it would actually work more like a hovercraft as a means of getting to the coast so that it could find more life forms to assimilate}}.
* When aliens appear in a ''[[Godzilla]]'' movie, more often than not, they're flying around in one of these.
* ''[[Wild Zero]]'' has dozens of flying saucers swarming over Earth to cause a [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
* [[Gamera]], in his flying form, resembles a flying saucer [[Turtle Power|made of turtle meat]].
* The [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|moon-based Nazis]] of ''[[Iron Sky]]'' utilize flying saucers as their primary attack vehicles... and they launch from [[Zeppelins Fromfrom Another World|giant carrier zeppelins]].
* The "interdimensional beings" (read: aliens) in ''[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Kingdom of Thethe Crystal Skull]]'' used a flying saucer, although you can't see it very well on account of it having been buried for a few thousand years. (It's [[Freeze -Frame Bonus|briefly visible]] after taking off, right before it jumps into "the space between spaces".)
 
 
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* In one of ''[[The History of the Galaxy]]'' novels, a human colony is attacked by a massive automated [[The Mothership|mothership]] built millions of years ago. The main character notes its circular shape and comments that it is [[Did Not Do the Research|the most efficient]] form for a spacecraft.
* ''Perry Rhodan'', most spaceships are sphere but earth small scouting unit are flying-saucer shaped.
* In the ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' series, the Skrit Na are described as using saucer-shaped spacecraft, implied to be because they need aereodynamic ships capable of traveling through atmospheres quickly as well as through space.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]],'' Federation's standard design for non-shuttlecraft ships, each one is composed a circular or oval saucer attached to 2 or 3 warp narcelles attached in different places. Picard's version can separate its saucer section from its star-drive section, as well, though the budget prevented [[The Powers That Be]] from having it do this with any regularity.
** The fact that the crew time traveled back to 20th Century Earth at least once provides some fun seeds for [[Epileptic Trees]] about the origin of flying saucers amongst human society.
* [[The Greys|Vree/Streib]] ships in ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]''
* The Dalek warships in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', as shown on the image above.
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' and ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' found this trope handy, both for alien and human vessels.
* The Gerry and Sylvia Anderson 1970s series ''[[UFO]]'' (obviously).
* The Jupiter-2 from ''[[Lost in Space]]''.
* The ships in ''[[V]]'' are saucer-shaped.
* The ''Orion VII'' {{spoiler|and ''VIII''}} in ''[[Raumpatrouille (TV)|Raumpatrouille]]''.
* ''[[Project UFO]]'', being lifted from the pages of Project Bluebook, had its fair share of these.
 
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' is a game about the stereotypical inhabitants of the aforementioned floating disks. Laser beams and brain eating are just extra treats.
* One of the many odd things used as transportation by the Item World pirates in ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]''.
* ''[[City of Heroes (Video Game)|City of Heroes]]'' has the Rikti, whose crashed mothership is an enormous saucer.
* ''[[Star Control]] 2'' has the [[Little Green Men|Ariloulaleelay]], whose Scout ship is a teleporting flying saucer.
* In the last level of ''[[Metal Slug]] 3'', you blow up several different types of flying saucers on your way to the Mars Peoples' mother ship.
* One of the Aeon experimental-class units in ''[[Supreme Commander (Video Game)|Supreme Commander]]'', the Czar, is an [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]] in the form of a flying saucer. Naturally, it has a [[Wave Motion Gun]] in the middle. The sequel removes the carrier aspect and trades it for [[Beam Spam|lots more weaker lasers]] and [[Death From Above|lots of little bombs]]. It keeps the giant middle laser, though.
* Naturally, some of the alien ships in the ''[[X-COM]]'' series fall under this, as does one of the ships you can manifacture in the first game.
* The Shroobs from ''[[Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga (Video Game)|Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga]]'' invade the [[Super Mario Bros.|Mushroom Kingdom]] in these kinds of spaceships.
** Also, the Starshrooms from both ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and [[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|its sequel.]]
** In [[Super Mario 3D Land]], if you use a binocular pad to look directly upwards and zoom in to the max in World 1-3, a flying saucer will fly by and disappear.
* The enemy mother ship that attacks Katina in ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]] 64'' is a flying saucer. The whole mission is an [[Independence Day]] shout out, the saucer will destroy the Katina base with a similar [[Wave Motion Gun]] if you fail to destroy it.
* The [[Expansion Pack]] for ''[[Command and Conquer]]'': ''Red Alert 2'', ''Yuri's Revenge'', had Yuri's new third side use laser-armed flying saucers referred to as Floating Discs.
* Main vehicle of the Watchers in ''[[Dark Void]]''.
* ''[[Wild Arms 3 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 3]]'' had an [[Alien Invasion]] sidequest where you had to shoot down a bunch of these with your [[Transforming Mecha]] of a [[Mechanical Lifeform|mechanical dragon]].
* Let's not forget good ol' ''[[Space Invaders]]'', which has a saucer flying across the top of the screen every so often. Shoot it down for bonus points!
* [[The Greys|Antari]] ships in ''[[Imperium Galactica]]'' are flying saucers. Interestingly, while the Antari are indeed Grey-like, they are, in fact, {{spoiler|descended from human colonists, like most humanoid races}}.
* You'll be seeing a lot of these in ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]] Undefined Fantastic Object''. It's a [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[Space Invaders]]''.
** {{spoiler|Turns out they really are [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|undefined]] [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|objects]]; [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|they only look like what you ''think'' they are]].}}
* There are Flying Saucers in Wheeler Acres in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Baseball]]''.
* In some games, ''[[Kirby]]'' can transform himself into a flying saucer with the UFO copy ability.
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* ''[[Outlive]]'' is a game about a war between a Mega Corporation trying to take over the world with an army of robots, and a group of freedom fighters trying to take it back. Then these things show up. Cue the end credits.
* They appear in the ''[[Fallout]]'' universe as well. In one Fallout 3 DLC you get captured and sent to one, which you eventually capture just as another tries to bring you down.
* Players can sometimes see flying saucers (labeled as "Unknown Object") zipping about in the ''[[X (Videovideo Gamegame)|X]]-Universe'' games. They don't interact with anything in the game, and will fly through the universe until they inevitably [[Artificial Stupidity|plow into something]].
 
 
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* The Great Gazoo from ''[[The Flintstones]]'' has a UFO; sometimes it's large enough to comfortably fit 1 normal-sized person, and other times he barely fits with his helmet serving as the round top.
* ''[[The Jetsons]]'' fly around in a UFO large enough to fit 4-5 characters comfortably, replacing cars as everyday transport in the future.
* Nibbler and his race in ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' each own their own very small UFO 'warmachines', which can almost contain a whole human with their Nibblonian pilot.
* Mator from ''[[Pixar Shorts|Unidentified Flying Mater]]''.
* Hondo Ohnaka's pirate gang uses one of these in [[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars]].
 
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The first event of the first story in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' is a flying saucer crashing into Bob's roof.
* Uryuoms were once shown in one of these in ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', while showing how [[The Masquerade]] there worked. The solution? A banner saying 'We are not aliens!'. {{spoiler|For most, it's ''true''.}}
* ''[[Spinnerette]]'' has the Avrocar, the pinnacle of [[Canada, Eh?|Canadian]] Aerospace Engineering, which turns out to be a piece of crap. It's actually based off of the actual [[wikipedia:Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar|Avrocar]] built by aircraft manufacturers Avro. [[The Alleged Car|It was also a piece of crap]] until someone added a heavy rubber skirt, and thus invented the hovercraft.
* In ''[[Sinfest (Webcomic)|Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3266 the aliens arrive in one.]
 
 
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