A Brief History of Movie Flying Saucers
Everett
Forbidden Planet, 1956
In the first film in which humans pilot a flying saucer of their own design, the crew of United Planets Cruiser C-57D is sent to the planet Altair IV to investigate the disappearance of a colony of explorers.
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