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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"''[[Independence Day]]. That alien invasion movie. The first part, where the aliens come and they look up between the buildings and the sky is gone and, like, all they see is metal. Just as far as you can see, that steel ship looming up there. I remember thinking that’s what the end of the world will look like. It won’t be wars and tanks or a meteor. It’ll be something [[Outside Context Villain|we never could have thought of]]...''"|[[Jennifer Lopez]], ''[[John Dies at the End]]''}}
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See also [[Floating Continent]] and [[Ominous Floating Castle]].
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* An advert for Doritos in the UK has a giant chip hovering above London in this manner.
▲== Manga&Anime ==
* The Arume ships in the final episode of ''[[Blue Drop]]''.
== Films ==
* The alien ships in ''[[Independence Day]]''. An interesting bit of [[Fridge Logic]] in this one - the ship's center is hovering a teeny bit over the mast of the Empire State Building. That would mean the spaceship was scraping the tops off of the World Trade Center towers.
* Briefly seen in the [[Jittercam]] news footage at the start of ''[[Alien Nation (film)|Alien Nation]]''.
* Done by the the alien ships in ''[[Signs]]'', but they're invisible.
* The alien ships in ''[[Skyline]]''.
* The [[Mother Ship]] in ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.
* The alien [[Mother Ship]] in ''[[District 9]]''.
* The Xilians' [[Mother Ship]] in ''[[Godzilla]]: Final Wars''..
* The ship at the end of ''[[The X-Files (film)|The X-Files
== Literature ==
* Arthur C. Clarke's novel ''[[Childhood's End]]'' (1953). The Overlords' ships mysteriously appear over the major cities of Earth. Many years all but one disappear, leading to speculation that the rest were illusions the whole time.
** This may just be the [[Ur Example]] of the trope.
* The Vogon Fleet in ''[[
== Live-Action TV ==
* The Visitors' ships in ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'', both versions. Likely the [[Trope Codifier]].
* The Sycorax asteroid ship in the first [[Christmas Special]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' does this at least once a season. A few notable instances are:
** Inverted in "Thor's Chariot", where {{spoiler|the titular Asgard's flagship ''Beliskner'' appears and performs a [[Gunship Rescue]]}} against Heru'ur.
** "Scorched Earth" plays it straight. The entire plot of the episode revolves around convincing the
** Anubis's mothership over the capital of Kelowna on Jonas Quinn's homeworld of Langara. Less suspenseful for the viewers, as it is no doubt that Anubis wants to invade, but true for the people of Kelowna, who have never seen a ''Ha'tak'' before.
** Inverted in the episode "The Lost City", with the USS ''Prometheus'' floating over our heroes. In this case, [[Gunship Rescue|defending them from Anubis's forces.]]
== Video Games ==
* The Chimera ships in ''[[Resistance]] 2''.
* Bowser's saucer in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''.
* Many, many times in the ''[[Halo]]'' games, mostly Covenant ships but sometimes UNSC ones too.
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** Various allied starships similarly can be seen hovering over various planets, in usually short-lived attempts to fend off the Reaper onslaught.
* These are present whenever you go outside in ''[[Iji]]''.
== Web Original ==
* In the abandoned and incomplete ''[[Fenspace]] Alternates'' story ''The South is Rising (Somebody Get a Hammer)'', the ''S.V. Grover's Corners'' -- a Fen spacecraft which is a ''three-quarter-mile diameter sphere'' -- is sent to hover directly over the capitol of the ''[[Timeline-191]]'' Confederate States of America.
== Real Life ==
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