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Flying Saucer Emoji 🛸

Disc-shaped, dome on top, lights running along the rim — a UFO drawn exactly the way pop culture taught everyone to picture one. It's the emoji for alien talk, conspiracy jokes, and describing something that showed up so suddenly or strangely it might as well have beamed in from outer space.

What 🛸 means

A slanting spaceship with a saucer body and a glass-covered dome-like structure at the top. There are a couple of bulging lights at the bottom, sometimes opening up with a ray of abductive light.

The 🛸 Flying Saucer emoji essentially represents a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object). And with the UFO reference comes the interpretation of aliens, "the unknown", the 'other', outer world, and conspiracies.

How and when to use it

If you're having a eureka moment with a conspiracy going through your head, you can use 🛸 while maniacally texting a close someone about it or even while typing out a social media story of the same.
Likewise, you can use 🛸 in the context of the word or implication of a 'conspiracy' too. For example, "A "conspiracy theorist" is nothing less than a derogatory label given to a critical thinker 🛸".
While reposting a viral news post about a UFO, or even a UFO or psychedelic artwork, etc, you can use 🛸 in the caption. The same applies even while forwarding a video link about aliens and UFOs via direct message (DM).
Apart from literally referring to aliens, 🛸 could also represent something that lies in the realm of the unknown or something that's strange and foreign.

Other Names

🛸 UFO
🛸 Unidentified Flying Object
🛸 Alien Spaceship
🛸 Spaceship
🛸 Flying Disc

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-air
Codepoints: U+1F6F8
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :flying_saucer:
Keywords: aliens, extra, flying, saucer, terrestrial, UFO

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.