flying saucer

Etymology
From an interview given by amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold who described seeing nine flying objects that were "moving like saucers being skimmed across a lake". The description was not meant to describe the shape of the objects, only how they maneuvered, yet the misinterpretation took hold and gained popularity.

Noun

 * 1)  A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947.
 * Some connect the recent spate of flying saucer sightings with a rumored top-secret military aviation project.
 * 1)  An alien interplanetary vessel, typically disc-shaped and of metallic construction.
 * 2) A form of confectionery, a small spheroidal capsule of rice paper filled with sherbet.
 * 1) A form of confectionery, a small spheroidal capsule of rice paper filled with sherbet.

Derived terms

 * flying saucer group

Translations

 * Arabic: طَبَق طَائِر
 * Armenian: թռչող ափսե
 * Azerbaijani: uçan dairə
 * Bulgarian: летяща чиния
 * Catalan: platet volador
 * Chinese:
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 * Cornish: padellik neyja
 * Czech:
 * Danish: flyvende tallerken
 * Dutch: vliegende schotel
 * Esperanto: fluganta subtaso
 * Estonian: lendav taldrik
 * Faroese: flúgvandi diskur
 * Finnish:
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 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hindi: उड़न तश्तरी
 * Hungarian: repülő csészealj
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: sásar eitilte
 * Italian: disco volante
 * Japanese: 空飛ぶ円盤
 * Kazakh: ұшатын табақ
 * Korean: 비행접시
 * Latin: patella volans
 * Macedonian: летечка чинија
 * Mongolian: нисдэг таваг
 * Norman: souôtâsse volante
 * Norwegian: flygende tallerken
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 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: летећи тањир
 * Roman: leteći tanjir
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: اڑن طشتری, اڑن تشتری
 * Vietnamese: đĩa bay
 * Welsh: soser hedegog