Flying saucer
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- Shortcode
:flying_saucer:- Unicode
U+1F6F8- HTML
🛸- CSS
\1F6F8- JavaScript
"\u{1F6F8}"- URL
%F0%9F%9B%B8
What ๐ธ means
A UFO, the classic flying saucer. It means aliens, the unexplained and the plain weird.
Sci-fi fans, alien theorists and UFO spotters use it. It also jokes about feeling out of place or wanting to escape: 'beam me up ๐ธ'. Pairs with ๐ฝ and ๐พ.
Facts
Flying saucer ๐ธ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under transport air. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :flying_saucer:. People also look for it with words like โUFOโ, โaliensโ, โextraโ, or โflyingโ.
Timeline
- 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2017
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.