flying saucer theory of UFOs theme
The theory that some unidentified flying objects are in fact spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin is featured.
Examples
Scientists incorrectly attributed a spate of authentic flying saucers sighting to a variety of mundane phenomenon, including Saint Elmo's fire, in "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" (1956).
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| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ds94x08 | major | Quark, Rom, Nog, time traveling to 1940s Earth turns out to be the explanation for the Roswell UFO event |
| futurama3x19 | major | We learn that the Planet Express team was responsible for the Roswell UFO incident. |
| movie: Alien Seed (1989) | major | The Ufologist Mark Timmons got himself into trouble for planning to write a book that would expose the secret government agency studying UFOs MJ-12. |
| movie: Alien Species (1996) | major | Professor Chambers and his colleague Carol Nelson were ridiculed for investigating the possibility that aliens were behind a spate of recent UFO sightings. |
| movie: Alien Terminator (1988) | major | Ted Angelo tried to convince everyone that "UFOs were real" (by which he meant that UFOs were actually alien spaceships) but he was having trouble convincing people of his theory. |
| movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | major | The film was about some ordinary people in Indiana encountering a UFO. |
| movie: Destination Inner Space (1966) | major | A submarine crew investigated an underwater flying saucer. |
| movie: Devil Girl from Mars (1954) | major | Nyah came to Scotland from Mars in a flying saucer. The professor dismissed the flying saucers as meteors or fallen engine cowlings. |
| movie: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) | major | Flying saucers were sighted all around the world were explained away as a variety of different phenomenon, including Saint Elmo's fire. |
| movie: Earthbound (1981) | major | A UFO was sighted and it turned out to be a flying saucer. It made a landing near the town of Goldrush, California. |