UFO Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Flying saucer is U+1F6F8, Emoji 5.0, in the group Travel & Places, the last of the thirteen emoji in the subgroup transport-air, after Rocket. Its CLDR words are aliens, extra, flying, saucer, terrestrial and UFO: it is the only emoji under UFO in capitals, saucer, extra and terrestrial, and CLDR files Alien and Alien monster under ufo in small letters; aliens leads to Flying saucer and Satellite antenna; flying to Wing, Airplane, Flying saucer and Flying disc; extraterrestrial to Alien, Alien monster and Telescope. Nothing is filed under spaceship or unidentified. Character names, aliases and notes are from UnicodeData.txt and NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt): Flying saucer carries the alias UFO and cross-references to U+1CCFB and to U+1F47D, whose name is Extraterrestrial alien. Six characters are named for a saucer and none for a UFO: the emoji, four under the heading Game sprites (U+1CC4A Flying saucer with beams, U+1CC4B Flying saucer without beams, U+1CCA4 Left half flying saucer, U+1CCA5 Right half flying saucer) and U+1CCFB Flying saucer symbol under Terminal graphic characters. By DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt) U+1F6F8 dates from Unicode 10.0, the four sprites from 16.0 and U+1CCFB from 17.0. U+1F6F8 has no text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. Wikipedia: Flying saucer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_saucer), a flying saucer or flying disc, a term coined in 1947 by the United States news media; Unidentified flying object (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object); Lenticular cloud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_cloud), mistaken for UFOs; World UFO Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_UFO_Day), June 24 or July 2. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) has no UFO or saucer. The UFO words and the words in other languages are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0), with the etymology of flying saucer (objects moving the way saucers skim across a lake; a description of how they moved, not of their shape): UFO (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/UFO), unidentified flying object (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unidentified_flying_object), flying saucer (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flying_saucer), UAP (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/UAP), IFO (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/IFO), USO (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/USO), ufology (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ufology), ufologist (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ufologist), skywatch (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skywatch), close encounter (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/close_encounter), mother ship (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mother_ship), tractor beam (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tractor_beam), little green man (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/little_green_man), crop circle (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crop_circle), weather balloon (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weather_balloon), lenticular cloud (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lenticular_cloud), OVNI (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/OVNI), НЛО (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/НЛО). The six typed saucers, the two drawings, the eight lines and the combos without a dictionary line are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.