Beijing South Station is shaped like a flying saucer, its silvery vaulted ceiling illuminated by skylights.
He's the public relations man at the local Air Force base who issued the quickly retracted "flying saucer" statement in 1947.
Over in the Netherlands we spotted Eindhoven's Evoluon Center, which looks like a massive flying saucer that's about to take flight.
Work is due to begin on the first three landmarks - the 25m Halo, dubbed "the flying saucer" in Rossendale, Colourfields for Blackburn and the Atom for Pendle.
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Across the bay from Rio, it perches on a cliff-top - an upturned flying saucer, its curves reflected in a pool which encircles its central pillar.
For its part, the Navy has a prototype for an unmanned strike plane, the X-47B, which looks like a gigantic matte-gray flying saucer, with a 62-foot wingspan.
The U.S. Air Force, which made the initial announcement of a "flying saucer" crash in July 1947, positioned it 75 miles northwest of remote Roswell (site No. 1).
In March, for example, a Taiwan-based group called "God Saves the Earth Flying Saucer Foundation" emerged in suburban Texas, declaring that the almighty would provide spaceships to rescue followers from a nuclear holocaust.
Stein says there was sampling well before their "Payoff Mix, " although it existed in a different form namely, the popular Flying Saucer records, which were collages created by Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman.
Known as "break-in" records and generally considered to reside in the novelty genre, the Flying Saucer records were "built around a narrative with an actor who played a reporter, or TV person, who asked questions or delivered jokes, the punchlines of which were hooks of popular songs, " Stein says.
And the Vatican showed off the urns into which the cardinals will place their ballots, the same silver and bronze flying-saucer-like urns used in the 2005 conclave that elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger pope.
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