Try Flying Saucer emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Flying Saucer emoji mean?
A flying saucer, the UFO emoji.
Playful and weird. It usually means something otherworldly.
How to use 🛸 naturally
Aliens, UFO sightings, sci-fi and strange things.
Object emoji usually point to an activity or topic rather than an emotion. They work well as labels in lists, captions and announcements, where the image makes the subject easy to scan.
From standard to slang
The history of 🛸
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Flying Saucer was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2017, a classic silver saucer with lights. Its shape comes from 1950s films.
- Today
How its use evolved
Aliens, UFO sightings, sci-fi and strange things.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🛸 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Saw lights in the sky 🛸
Beam me up 🛸
Sci-fi night 🛸
When to use it
Using 🛸 clearly
Aliens, UFO sightings, sci-fi and strange things. It lands as ufo emoji or alien spaceship emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the flying saucer emoji
What does 🛸 mean in a text message?
A flying saucer, the UFO emoji. Playful and weird. It usually means something otherworldly.
Is 🛸 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are ufo emoji, alien spaceship emoji, 🛸 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🛸 look different on another device?
U+1F6F8 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the flying saucer emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🛸 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the flying saucer emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🛸 as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🛸 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F6F8 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🛸 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🛸 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F6F8 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6F8} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%9B%B8 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F6F8
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- ufo emojialien spaceship emoji🛸 meaning
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