The building is unique due to its very futuristic design, resembling a landed flying saucer.

The Fire Dragon is revealed to be a flaming Kilaak saucer and is destroyed.

Eight weeks after the Harvard speech, the State Department wrote in a confidential memorandum that " The Marshall Plan has been compared to a flying saucer — nobody knows what it looks like, how big it is, in what direction it is moving, or whether it really exists.

One of the most popular garden magnolias, saucer magnolia ( Magnolia × soulangeana ), is a hybrid of Magnolia liliiflora and Magnolia denudata.

The actual spaceship of the invaders is a " flying saucer '.

It is also used in place of table salt in meals to enhance the flavor of the food, where it can either be dashed from a dispensing bottle onto the food, or poured into a saucer and mixed with calamansi and used as a dipping sauce.

He helps her home in on his location, and is shocked when a flying saucer lands practically on top of him.

Chawanmushi is a Japanese savoury custard, cooked and served in a small bowl or on a saucer.

An extraterrestrial flying saucer is tracked flying around the Earth until it lands on the President's Park Ellipse in Washington, D. C .. Klaatu ( Michael Rennie ) emerges, announcing that he has come from outer space on a goodwill mission.

The espresso is always served with a saucer and demitasse spoon, and sometimes with a complimentary wrapped chocolate and a small glass of water.

The traditional afternoon serving of caffè has an almost ceremonial formality: the caffè is always brought with a silver pot ; porcelain cups ( which should be fine china and as plainly decorated as possible ) are served on a saucer with their small silver spoon on the right ( on the saucer ).

It is a model of a flying saucer on a site, situated on a site, where on May 18th, 1946 a UFO allegedly landed.

The main interior is the central Saloon, a roofed courtyard of two storeys, of three by five bays of arches on each floor, the walls are lined with scagliola, the coved ceiling is glazed and the centre has three glazed saucer domes.

After hearing a strange noise above her kitchen roof, she is accosted by small intruders that come from a miniature flying saucer that has landed on her roof.

She is later taken back to her extraterrestrial family in an illustrated depiction of a disc-shaped flying object similar to a flying saucer.

A saucer dome is the architectural term used for a low pitched shallow dome which is described geometrically as having a circular base and a segmental ( less than a semicircle ) section.

A very low dome is a saucer dome.

Gaining in popularity from the 18th century onwards, the saucer dome is often a feature of interior design.

It is generally agreed that the evolution of handmade lamps moved from bowl-shaped to saucer-shaped, then from saucer with a nozzle, to a closed bowl with a spout.

The chaou is a three piece teaware consisting of a lid, cup / bowl, and a saucer.

The front of the saucer section is equipped with a " deflector " that protects the ship from space dust and other particles that would otherwise cause significant damage at impulse, or even cruising speeds.

This version of the vessel had different markings, including yellow markings on the dorsal surface of the saucer section, but was essentially identical to the NX-01, with the exception that it was equipped in 2155 by the mirror Charles Tucker III with a cloaking device obtained from the Suliban.

Creme's acolytes believe that Shamballa is equipped with an astrodrome as well as with numerous flying saucer landing pads attached to the tops or the sides of the buildings to accommodate the heavy flying saucer traffic from Venus.

For instance, on 1977's Out of the Blue, the logo was turned into a huge flying saucer space station, an enduring image now synonymous with the band.

Picard buries Kirk before being shuttled to the wreckage of the Enterprise saucer section, reuniting with his crew, and leaving the planet.

Sam and Mary go with the Old Man to investigate a saucer which crash-landed in Mississippi.

Jetson commutes to work in an aerocar that resembles a flying saucer with a transparent bubble top.

Drawings developed by Avro show an aircraft that appears to be a merging of flying saucer with more conventional fuselage shapes, in other words a tail-less aircraft with circular wings ( when viewed from above or below ).

Earlier in the film a man on the street asks him for money for a cup of coffee, and he subsequently produces a steaming cup complete with saucer, from inside his coat.

The film begins with three aliens, one blue, one red, and one yellow, traveling to Earth in a flying saucer.

Before long, Wum was accompanied by the elephant Wendelin, and later by Blauer Klaus ( Blue Klaus ), an alien hovering in with his flying saucer.

* In some establishments, lattes are served in a glass on a saucer with a napkin to hold the ( sometimes hot ) glass.

The plastinx ( small saucer ) was fixed on top of the rhabdus ( pole ), with the lecanis ( large saucer ) below.

Along with the Smith group, a parallel committee dedicated solely to dealing with " flying saucer " reports was formed.

Sometimes they were refused the use of candles to the extent of their wishes, and the device of a saucer of lard with a bit of rag for a wick was their only light after the rest of the family had retired.

When ordered to bring the failed Princess Python back to her original group, the Circus of Crime, Death Adder's serpent saucer crashes in the South Bronx after it gets hit by an unknown weapon.

The flying saucer effects were created by Ray Harryhausen.

With the assistance of Jean Mollard, he made a " diving saucer " SP-350, an experimental underwater vehicle which could reach a depth of 350 meters.

The Enterprise-D's end also appeared — the saucer crash had first been proposed as the cliffhanger for Moore's original seventh-season finale " All Good Things ...", which eventually became the series finale.

Though UFO sightings have occurred throughout recorded history, modern interest in them dates from World War II ( see foo fighter ), further fueled in the late 1940s by Kenneth Arnold's report of a close encounter, which led to coining of the term flying saucer, and the Roswell UFO Incident.

The ceiling has saucer domes, which were to have been painted by Thornhill, had the Duchess not upset him.

" This testing was performed on commercial grade ' heater meals ' which consisted of an unenclosed flameless heat pouch, a bag of salt water, a styrofoam saucer / tray and a meal in a sealed, microwavable / boilable bowl.

* Oulu Hall ( a large indoor sports facility consisting of a low dome, which looks somewhat like a landed flying saucer )

South central Britain was settled by women wearing the saucer brooch, which came from Lower Saxony, the south side of the lower Elbe, and pockets among the then Franks up the Rhine and along the coast to the mouth of the Seine.

In an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rob sees a flying saucer that makes a noise " Uhny Uftz ", which Rob mis-hears as " Sonny Tufts "

In 1948, Palmer and Curtis Fuller co-founded Fate, which covered divination methods, Fortean events, belief in the survival of personality after death, predictive dreams, accounts of ghosts, mental telepathy, archaeology, flying saucer sightings, cryptozoology, alternative medicine, warnings of death, and other paranormal topics, many contributed by readers.

A mug without a handle, that is a bowl or a beaker, is topologically equivalent to a saucer, which is more evident as a raw clay bowl can be flattened on a potter's wheel.

From these, the press quickly coined the new terms " flying saucer " and " flying disc " to describe such objects, many of which were reported within days after Arnold's sighting.

Although ETH, as a unified and named hypothesis, is a comparatively new concept-one which owes a lot to the saucer sightings of the 1940s – 1960s, it can trace its origins back to a number of earlier events such as the now discredited Martian canals and ancient Martian civilization promoted by astronomer Percival Lowell, popular culture including the writings of H. G. Wells and fellow science fiction pioneers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, who likewise wrote of Martian civilizations, and even to the works of figures such as the Swedish philosopher, mystic and scientist Emanuel Swedenborg, who promoted a variety of unconventional views that linked other worlds to the afterlife.

Hedorah is confronted by Godzilla and Hedorah only an amphibian at the time is easily overpowered by Godzilla and retreats into the sea but returns shortly thereafter in a flying saucer shape demonstrating new, even deadlier forms which it can switch between at will.

His feet were later apparently used in the construction of an ashtray, which Davan presented as a gift to Nancy, and his skull used as a milk saucer for Choo-Choo.

Hole jewels are disks ( normally flying saucer shaped ) which have a carefully shaped and sized hole.

In the same vein, in his article The truth is: They never were saucers, Robert Sheaffer argued that just after the Kenneth Arnold case, most witnesses described UFOs as saucer-shaped, which agrees with the " flying saucer " reports in the media coverage of the event, but allegedly disagreed with what Arnold himself reported seeing, claiming Arnold instead reported " flying boomerangs.

" This was a reference to the 1951 science fiction classic film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which an alien arrives by flying saucer in Washington, D. C.

In response to many " flying saucer " sightings ( later unidentified flying objects ), the United States Air Force established Project Sign in 1948 ; this later became Project Grudge, which in turn became Project Blue Book in 1952.

The laboratory cat is called Neutron " because he's so positive " ( the name should therefore have been Proton, unless this was a sarcastic label, meaning the cat has a nasty disposition ); the Earth is surrounded by a " heat barrier " which the Metalunan saucer must negotiate both when leaving and returning-although visually dramatic this has no scientific basis ; a planet is referred to as having once been a comet ; and another is transformed into a sun by meteorite bombardment.

The type of spaceship by which the Invaders reach the Earth is a flying saucer of a design derivative of that shown in the contestable early-1950s photographs of self-proclaimed UFO " contactee " George Adamski, but instead of having three spheres on the underside, the Invaders ' craft has five shallower protrusions.

Wiggum attempts to escape in a hot-air balloon, which is destroyed by a large steampunk-style flying saucer flown by Kang and Kodos, who comment on destroying the Earth's air force.