Talvez os discos voadores de ficção científica mais antigos estivessem no 1887 romance Noivo de Bellona: Um Romance (também conhecido como Bellona's Husband: Um Romance ) por "Hudor Genone" , pseudônimo de William James Roe. De qualquer forma, essa é a mais antiga das quatro histórias listadas em "discos voadores" no Índice de Tema e Motivo de Everett F. Bleiler 's Ficção Científica: Os Primeiros Anos . Aqui faz parte da revisão de Bleiler:
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.
O primeiro filme de discos voadores foi O disco voador , lançado 5 de janeiro de 1950 . Wikipedia diz :
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.
Tudo bem, então esse é o primeiro disco voador filme . E quanto a televisão? gostaria de saber se o Captain Video tinha alguma experiência discos antes de 1950?