Kanske var tidigaste science-fictional flying saucers i 1887 roman Bellona's Bridegroom: En romantik (aka Bellonas man: A Romance ) genom "Hudor Genone" , pseudonym för William James Roe. I alla fall är det den tidigaste av fyra berättelser listade under "flygande tallrikar" i Motiv och Tema Index av Everett F. Bleiler Science-fiction: Early Years . Här är en del av Bleilers recension:
A fanciful ideal society. * The narrator is Archibald Holt, a rather stupid middle-aged man who invests money in Professor Ratzinez Garrett's hydrogenium, a metallic form of hydrogen that is so light as to amount to antigravity. Garrett builds a flying disk using hydrogenium as a lifting agent, and Holt, Garrett and a third character (Trip) set out for Mars. * As they pass Phobos and Deimos they see that they are abandoned flying saucers much like their own. They later learn that the space craft came from Jupiter or Saturn, and that similar saucers have visited earth, but have flamed or crashed on entering the atmosphere. * The terrestrials land on Mars, which is like the eastern United States, and find a completely human race that speaks English. At first Garrett postulates that the similarity is due to colonists from earth (and is upset at the possibility that his patent may be invalid), but later decides that the similarity is the result of parallel evolution.
Den första flygande tallrikfilmen var The Flying Saucer , släppt 5 januari 1950 . Wikipedia säger :
The Flying Saucer is the first feature film to deal with the (then) new and hot topic of flying saucers. Flying saucers or alien craft shaped like flying disks or saucers were first identified and given the popular name in 1947 when on June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine silvery, crescent-shaped objects flying in tight formation. A newspaper reporter coined a snappy tagline: "flying saucers" which captured the public's imagination.
Okej, så det är den första flygande plattan film . Vad händer med TV? Jag undrar om Captain Video hade några flygningar tallrikar före 1950?