For example, in an article in The American Weekly magazine of October 24, 1954, Oberth stated, " It is my thesis that flying saucers are real, and that they are space ships from another solar system.

( In captivity, clay pots and saucers are an attractive choice.

Science fiction themes ( monsters, giant insects from Them !, flying saucers ) are common crowd pleasers.

Czech language mostly uses dělat ( házet ) žabky / žabičky ( to make / throw little frogs – countrywide, especially in Central and North Bohemia and Czech Silesia ) or kačky / kačeny / kařery / kačenky / káčata / káčery / káčírky ( ducks / drakes / ducklings, East Bohemia and parts of Moravia ) but there are many other local and dialectal words: rybičky / rybky ( little fishes ), mističky ( saucers ), talíře ( plates / dishes ), podlisky / podlíšky / lyšky ( wagtails ), potápky ( divers ), pokličky / pukličky ( pot-lids ), plisky, plesky ( flaps ), žbluňky ( plops ), šipky ( darts ), bubliny ( bubbles ), židy ( jews ), páni / panáky ( sirs / figures ), babky ( gammers / wagtails ), panenky ( dolls / girls / dragonflies ), převážet panenku Mariu ( to ferry Virgin Mary ) and many others.

They are described as being ' like saucers '.

In the West, forks, bread plate, butter knife, and napkin generally are placed to the left of the dinner plate, and knives, spoons, stemware and tumblers, cups, and saucers to the right.

Creme's followers believe that Maitreya, in collusion with the flying saucers of the space brothers, are the cause of the crop circles ( the modern manifestation of which began to appear in 1975, the year that Creme claims that Maitreya began to telepathically contact him ); more crop circles appear in England than any other country, it is asserted, because Maitreya spends a large percentage of his time in London.

On February 15, 1954, Dorothy Kilgallen commented in her syndicated column, " Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of the world military heads next summer.

In a May 22, 1955 report from London, syndicated by the INS, Kilgallen stated, " British scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying ship, are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or Soviet inventions, but are flying saucers which originate on another planet.

Benjamin Creme subscribes to the modern esoteric view that Nordic aliens ( like those mentioned by George Adamski – Creme accepts Adamski's sightings as valid ) pilot flying saucers from the civilization on Venus that is thought to exist on the etheric plane ( Esotericists believe that since the Venusians ' civilization is on the etheric plane, the planet's heat doesn't affect them ) and are capable of stepping down the level of vibration of themselves and their craft to the slower level of vibration of the atoms of the physical plane.

Since Shamballa is envisioned as a floating city about five miles above the surface of the earth on the etheric plane, there are also numerous entrances in the basements of the buildings, where flying saucers can enter from the bottom of the city and park in spacious flying saucer parking garages provided in the basement levels of the buildings.

Since, according to Creme, the Venusians flying saucer designers outsource the actual construction of their flying saucers to the Martians ( who are said to dwell on the etheric plane of Mars ), whom he describes as the " master engineers of the solar system ", Shamballa provides a convenient neutral ground where the Venusians and the Martians can meet to evaluate new flying saucer designs and negotiate flying saucer construction contracts between themselves.

* My Weekly Reader, October 12, 1950, " Military secret of the United States of America Air Forces ", ( flying saucers are US Air Force experimental aircraft ).

Typically they are made of white pottery or porcelain and accompanied by matching saucers, but some coffeehouses and china companies also produce brightly decorated varieties.

After the 1996 Summer Olympics, the International Shooting Union decided to discontinue the trap and skeet shooting events for women and instead allow women to compete in the double trap, where two clay saucers are thrown simultaneously.

In the series flying saucers, such as spaceship Orion, are flown by humans, whilst the aliens fly fighter jet-like contraptions.

Although often part of a place setting in a dinner set, teacups with unique styling are often sold with matching saucers, sometimes alone, or as part of a tea set, including a teapot and small dessert plates.

This picture shows hexagonal saucers in Badwater Basin that are approximately 2-2. 5 metres in diameter.

The saucers are formed after the salty pan begins to dry and the salt crystals expand.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

* to retain a liquidy solid ( for example, in home cheese-making, when the milk has curdled to a gel, pour into a muslin bag and squash between two saucers ( upside down under a brick ) to squeeze out the liquid whey from the cheese curd )

A ghostly birthday party appears to be taking place at the dining table ( a dinner plate and two saucers on the left side of the table combine to make a " Hidden Mickey ").

In the opening book of the series, it is revealed that in the late 1940s, two flying saucers ( called " bouncers ") and a mile long spacecraft with an interstellar drive were discovered in the remote Nevada desert, with information that leads to the locations of seven more abandoned flying saucers hidden beneath the frozen tundra of Antarctica, which the US takes back in Operation Highjump.

A basestar's shape is that of two saucers joined to each other at their axis.

In order to improve the attraction's capacity, the rockets became " flying saucers " and were made large enough to accommodate an average of four riders per saucer, in two rows of two riders.

During game play, the player must evade enemy fire from a pair of flying saucers moving in tandem.

The defenders also discover that the aliens are vulnerable to small arms fire once they leave the immediate force fields of their saucers.

The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.

Sometimes if a contestant had come close enough ( for example, if they had to stack cups and saucers without the pile falling over, and the contestant knocked the pile over while putting the last cup on top ), he would give them the stunt if they did not have time to do it again.

The invaders ' flying saucers use magnetic drives capable of near light speed velocities, resulting in a distortion of time: while time seems like minutes to the passengers, events on board occur in split seconds of real time.

Cabell was newly-appointed, and found himself in charge of a " split house :" some were sympathetic and intrigued, if not entirely convinced of the Estimate's accuracy, while others rejected the very idea of interplanetary saucers as impossible.

Traditionally it is sipped out of small, handle-less, bowl-shaped cups or saucers, called piyala.

' We believe, on the basis of our inquiry thus far, that the saucers were staffed by small men — probably under four feet tall.

“ The Chairman said that Sir Henry Tizard felt that reports of flying saucers ought not to be dismissed without some investigation and he had, therefore, agreed that a small DSI / JTIC Working Party should be set up under the chairmanship of Mr Turney to investigate future reports.

When dry, its surface is covered with small but firm hexagonal mud crack saucers that are typically 3 to 4 inches ( 7. 5 to 10 cm ) in diameter and about an inch ( 2. 5 cm ) thick.

* Soy sauce, the fermented bean liquid often served in small saucers for dipping a variety of East Asian foods.

Other examples include occasions in " Riding the Range ", where Tyrone could produce a seemingly inexhaustible supply of apples, " The Snow Fort ", where Tasha and Uniqua each have a rucksack that contains a rescue kit, including shovels, hooks, and suction cups, " Race Around the World ", where Austin has a racing pack in which he keeps numerous items, such as a hook, rope, Band-Aids, a water bottle, and a pair of scissors, and " High Tea ", in which Tasha manages to store tea-leaves, a teapot and four cups and saucers in a small purse.

“( t ) he " debunking " aim would result in reduction in public interest in " flying saucers " which today evokes a strong psychological reaction.

On March 18, 1950, Farmington was the site of a mass UFO sighting where over half the town's population was reported to have seen large saucers in the sky flying at rapid speeds.

Project Sign, based at Air Technical Intelligence Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and its successors Project Grudge and Project Blue Book were officially tasked with investigating the flying saucers.

" Lazzaro later shoots and kills Billy with a laser gun after his speech on flying saucers and the true nature of time before a large audience in Chicago, in a balkanized United States on February 13, 1976 ( which, at the time the book was written, was in the future ).

During his time at the school he rejected the church's interpretations of the Bible, and developed an interest in astronomy and the phenomenon of flying saucers.

The player fires back to destroy the flying saucers by firing missiles at them from the rocket ship.

If the player's score is higher than that of the saucers at the end of 90 seconds, the player will get another 90 seconds of play, and the colors of the screen would switch to " Hyperspace " ( it would switch like a photo negative, from black to white and white to black ).

If at the end of this 90 seconds the player's score is still higher than that of the saucers, the player received another 90 seconds and the colors will revert to normal.

* A. Roberts, writing in the Fortean Times, alleged that in the 1960s, Caddy and other ' channelers ' believed that they were in contact with extraterrestrials through telepathy, and prepared a ' landing strip ' for flying saucers at nearby Cluny Hill.

A United Press story on July 8 had the Army Air Forces at the Pentagon stating what the flying saucers were not.

A mythical covert government agency of the United States code-named Majestic 12 is often imagined to be the shadow government which collaborates with the alien occupation and permits alien abductions, in exchange for assistance in the development and testing of military " flying saucers " at Area 51, in order for U. S. armed forces to achieve full-spectrum dominance.

According to Creme, sometimes flying saucers from places more distant than Venus, such as from Mars, the Moons of Jupiter, Uranus, Sirius, the Pleiades, and beyond, fly in to pay a visit at Shamballa.

According to the Ascended Master Teachings of Anne Bellringer of Rapid City, South Dakota, who began teaching in 1990, Hatonn, an android Pleiadean Master who flies aboard the flying saucer Phoenix ( one of the flying saucers of the Ashtar Galactic Command Flying Saucer Fleet, piloted by Hatonn ’ s partner the Master Soltec ), monitors events on Earth for the Galactic Hall of Records at the galactic core.

In an apparent attempt to quell speculation about the military nature of flying saucers, a press conference was held in July 1952, at which Major John A. Sandford denied any knowledge of the craft, and retired Major Donald E. Keyhoe declared his belief that they were of alien origin.

Such an author was Iris Murdoch, with whom Manning shared an interest in flying saucers and an uneasy friendship that was tinged with jealousy at the younger Murdoch's greater success.

The laser turrets on Basestars are located at the tips of the " spokes " on both saucers and are considerably more powerful than the Colonial design.

Tenar resemble flying saucers and use anti-grav technology to fly ; they can not only hover close to the ground but fly at significant altitudes.

During a question-and-answer period at a tribute to Harryhausen and a screening of Jason and the Argonauts held in Sydney, Australia, Harryhausen said he sought advice from noted 1950s UFO " contactee " George Adamski on the depiction of the flying saucers in the film, but he thought that Adamski grew increasingly paranoid as time went by.

Everything freezes at this point, including the player's ship and bullets and all descending saucers and aliens, and the large saucer flies away.