The Flying Saucer

The Flying Saucer
Theatrical release insert poster
Directed by	Mikel Conrad
Produced by	Mikel Conrad
Written by	Howard Irving Young Mikel Conrad
Starring	Mikel Conrad
Music by	Darrell Calker
Cinematography	Phillip Tannura
Edited by	Robert Crandall
Production company	Colonial Productions, Inc.
Distributed by	Film Classics Inc.
Release date	1950 (1950)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Flying Saucer is a 1950 independently made American black-and-white science fiction spy film, written by Howard Irving Young from an original story by Mikel Conrad who also produced, directed, and stars with Pat Garrison and Hantz von Teuffen. The film was distributed in the United States by Film Classics Inc. The Flying Saucer was re-released in 1953 in the U.S. by Realart Pictures Inc., on a double-bill with Atomic Monster, the retitled-reissue of Man Made Monster, originally released in 1941 by Universal Pictures.

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 on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine silvery, crescent-shaped objects flying in tight formation. A newspaper reporter coined the snappy tagline, "flying saucers", which captured the public's imagination. The film has no relationship and should not be confused with the later Ray Harryhausen science fiction film Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, released by Columbia Pictures.

American Intelligence officials learn that Soviet spies have begun exploring a remote region of the Alaskan Territory in search of answers to the worldwide reports of "flying saucers". A wealthy American playboy, Mike Trent (Mikel Conrad), who was raised in that remote region, is recruited by intelligence officer Hank Thorn (Russell Hicks) to assist a Secret Service agent in exploring that area to discover what the Soviets may have found.