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🛸Flying Saucer Emoji
🛸 is the flying saucer emoji, U+1F6F8, one of 13 in the Air Transportation set. It arrived with Emoji 5.0 (2017) and is commonly used for aliens, extra and flying.
What 🛸 flying saucer means
Flight and everything above it. ✈️ marks travel plans, and 🛫 and 🛬 exist specifically to say departing and landing. 🚀 has drifted the furthest of any emoji here: in software it means a release shipped, and in trading talk it means a price is climbing. 🛸 flying saucer was added in Emoji 5.0.
Unicode tags this one aliens, extra and flying and files it under Travel & Places → Air Transportation.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F6F8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🛸 | |
| HTML decimal | 🛸 | |
| CSS | \1F6F8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6F8} | |
| Python | \U0001F6F8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDEF8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f6f8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F6F8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F6F8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%9B%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9B B8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DEF8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+buA== | |
| Decimal | 128760 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 5.0 (2017) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🛸
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “flying saucer”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “aliens”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f6f8and Enter. - HTML — paste
🛸.
How 🛸 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🛸Apple
- 🛸Segoe
- 🛸Noto
- 🛸System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🛸 flying saucer emoji mean?+
🛸 is the flying saucer emoji, tagged aliens, extra and flying. Flight and everything above it. ✈️ marks travel plans, and 🛫 and 🛬 exist specifically to say departing and landing. 🚀 has drifted the furthest of any emoji here: in software it means a release shipped, and in trading talk it means a price is climbing. 🛸 flying saucer was added in Emoji 5.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🛸?+
flying saucer is U+1F6F8. In HTML that is 🛸, in CSS \1F6F8, and in JavaScript \u{1F6F8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🛸 emoji added?+
flying saucer got its emoji presentation in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Air Transportation in Travel & Places.
Added in Emoji 5.0 (2017)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🛸 flying saucer.