In one of those science fiction becomes fact moments, an enterprising project in Shenzhen, China has seen the first public demonstration of a manned electric flying saucer. Hey ho, UFO no more. The craft, which was shown flying around a tech park, was developed with the help of Northwestern Polytechnical University and manufactured by Shenzen UFO Flying Saucer Technology. The video of the event shows a vehicle which looks decidedly unsteady in flight, even with six independent ducts with dual...

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NASA aims to launch a flight test Thursday, June 4, of an innovative "flying saucer" that could help humans land on Mars in the future.

NASA's huge supersonic parachute isn't ready to land astronauts on Mars just yet.

The galaxy is 85 million light years away and boasts pinwheeling arms with a bar of stars through its center. From the side it looks like a flying saucer, but is called a spiral galaxy.

The idea of mysterious flying saucers piloted by extraterrestrials had, by the 1950s, been popularized to such an extent that even Time magazine’s Circulation Department wanted in on the fun. The magazine itself was less inclined to dabble in science fiction or conspiracy theories, but a letter sent out to potential subscribers nevertheless reported on...

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