Up, Up, and Away Sharjah’s Brutalist “Flying Saucer” gets a restoration and site-specific art show By Jonathan Hilburg • September 10, 2020 • International, News, Preservation ...

Then in the afternoon, he will sit on the living room floor staring at things only he can see. If you look closer, you will notice that he is watching the dust particles drift slowly in the sunlight.

Scientists show their saucer test vehicle to members of the media, before its shipment at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, in Pasadena, Calif., on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes ...

NASA will test a saucer-shaped craft that could hold the key to a future human mission to Mars. The earliest the craft can launch is Monday.

If all goes according to plan, the saucer's inflatable ring, made of the same material as bulletproof vests, will pop up, expanding to about 3 feet high in a fraction of a second.

Later the same day — Aug. 13 — A.C. Urie, operator of the Auger Falls Trout Farm, offered a detailed description of an object he and sons Billy, 10, and Keith, 8, saw flying along the floor of ...