Beijing South Station is shaped like a flying saucer, its silvery vaulted ceiling illuminated by skylights.

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It looks spookily like a flying saucer.

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Over in the Netherlands we spotted Eindhoven's Evoluon Center, which looks like a massive flying saucer that's about to take flight.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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