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* Subverted in ''Fanfic/SlippingBetweenWorlds'', where the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' goes through its own ''Radio/WarOfTheWorlds'' mass panic and everyone swears blind the aliens have landed from their incredibly advanced flying discs, you know, the ones with the deadly ray gonnes what are just about to blast the Patrician's palace into atoms, just keep watching, squire, sooner or later the mothership is going to pop out of invisibility just over Broad Way, let's see how that wily bugger Vetinari gets out of ''this'' one, and so on.

* The Great Gazoo has a UFO; sometimes it's large enough to comfortably fit 1 normal-sized person, and other times he barely fits with his helmet serving as the round top.

** "Ten Little Flintstones" begins with Fred watching a news report on UFOs also called "flying saucers", and jokes that the only flying saucers he has ever seen were the ones that Wilma threw. Unknown to him, an actual flying saucer comes down to Earth and replicates his image producing ten alien duplicates of himself and causing all sorts of mischief. When Fred chases the doppelgängers, he assumes it is a prank being pulled on by the guys at the lodge, but then he sees the actual flying saucer and unintentionally stops an alien takeover. The others, of course, don't believe him and blame what he saw on his diet.

* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' has the Avrocar, the pinnacle of [[CanadaEh Canadian]] Aerospace Engineering, which turns out to be a piece of crap. It's actually based off of the actual [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar Avrocar]] built by aircraft manufacturers Avro. [[TheAllegedCar It was also a piece of crap]] until someone added a heavy rubber skirt, and thus invented the hovercraft.

* The Great Gazoo from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' has a UFO; sometimes it's large enough to comfortably fit 1 normal-sized person, and other times he barely fits with his helmet serving as the round top.

** Dalek warships from both the old and new series. Their orignal creation as Dalek spacecraft was made back in TheSixties when this trope was all the rage. [[ZeerustCanon It has stuck with the aliens ever since.]]

* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' features something of a {{Reconstruction}}, the Alien Invaders arrive at Earth in a [[PlanetSpaceship mothership 1/4th the size of the moon]], and disengage a dozen separate saucers (the first image of them resembles a sand dollar), each one stated to be 15 miles wide and hover over several major cities before beginning their assault. Which they do by nuking the cities directing a WaveMotionGun down from the centre of their ships. The sheer scale of the ships and the MonumentalDamage that they wreak prevents it from [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny being seen as cliche or silly]].

** In an emergency most Starfleet ships can separate its saucer section from its star-drive section, creating a more traditional Flying Saucer image. A unique feature of the Enterprise-D from TNG was that it was designed for casual saucer separation to evacuate non-Starfleet passengers, although the budget prevented ThePowersThatBe from having it do this with any regularity.

** The Original Series episode "The Alternative Factor" features adn alien-of-the-week who pilots a small, one-man saucer, in the vein of [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Spaceman Spiff]] or ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' found this trope handy, both for alien and human vessels. Many times, the former used the model of [=C57D=] from ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' for their spaceships, notably in "The Invaders" and "Death Ship". One of these is smashed in "The Invaders". Fortunately, it's a breakaway replica and not the original used in preceding shots.

** In the final scene of "Cold Reading", Nelson Westbrook and the cast of ''Dick Noble, African Explorer'' believe nothing else will materialize in their radio studio as they have reached the end of the script. However, the announcer reads out a promo for the following week's episode in which Dick Noble fights [[AlienInvasion invaders from Mars]]. A flying saucer immediately crashes into the studio.
** In "A Day in Beaumont", Dr. Kevin Carlson and Faith witness a flying saucer crash in Willoughby, five miles outside of Beaumont. Upon investigating, they discover that it belongs to a race of InsectoidAliens.
** In "A Saucer of Loneliness", a small flying saucer comes to Earth in order to deliver a message to an extremely lonely human. The recipient of the message is a middle-aged woman named Margaret.

* Music/PeterGabriel ''Salisbury Hill''.