saucerian
English edit
Etymology edit
saucer + -ian, in reference to flying saucers.
Noun edit
saucerian (plural saucerians)
- An extraterrestrial being visiting the Earth.
- 2017, Bill Warren, Keep Watching the Skies!:
- The saucerians are here from another, dying, planetary system; they contact Marvin later, and now talk slowly enough to make themselves understood.
- (ufology) A person who has communicated with an extraterrestrial being.
- Synonym: contactee
- 2001, David A. Clary, Before and After Roswell, page 63:
- The “contactees” or “saucerians” surfaced in 1952 in southern California. They presented themselves as selected by superior beings from other planets for a special assignment—save the world.