The flying saucer emoji is your go-to for anything extraterrestrial: mystery lights in the sky, conspiracy chat, or just that “take me off this planet” mood on a Monday. People drop it with the alien head to joke about abductions, Area 51 raids, or gov’t “disclosure” headlines, and it doubles as ironic flair when someone’s outfit, recipe, or mixtape is literally out of this world. It’s also a cheeky way to say “my ride’s here” before an Irish exit, or to flirt with a nerdy “take me to your leader” line. In meme-speak, it plays as both chaos energy (unidentified vibes detected) and escapism (beam me up, I’m done).
On Apple/iOS, the saucer looks like a sleek, brushed-metal disc with a glossy cyan-blue dome on top and a ring of soft blue lights glinting around the rim, shown at a three-quarters tilt like it’s cruising by your window. There’s no big tractor beam graphic—just that subtle underglow that screams “we abduct politely.” The clean, toy-like styling makes it instantly recognizable in a lineup of space stuff, especially when paired with sparkles, stars, or the alien head for maximum “I want to believe” energy. Great for X-Files references, Roswell jokes, and any text that needs a sprinkle of cosmic weirdness.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 907 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🛸 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🛸 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🛸 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🛸 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f6f8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F6F8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128760 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9B 0xB8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9B B8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 233 270 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDEF8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddef8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 57080 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F6F8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F6F8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128760 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F6F8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9b\xb8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDEF8" |
