Sky1Driver
Alphans
How big is the main alien craft in UFO? I know it has been discussed elsewhere on this forum. My calculations were made before finding out that the miniatures were created at 1/24 and 1/48 scale. Also, it was based on screenshots and real life models.
The smallest version can be seen in the episode "Flight Path." The scene where the UFO flies over Roper's car. The life size car was 18 feet long. I estimate this particular UFO to be about 20 feet in diameter. If it carries an escape pod, the main sphere should be no smaller than 4 feet in diameter. The basis of this is the submarine Deepsea Challenger, where the sphere is this size, and holds only one person.
Then there is the UFO in the famous Japanese "pink book" which states the UFO is 46.3 feet in diameter. It took some research, and this is what I came up: in the 1960s, General Dynamics developed a submersible called STAR II. The sphere that carried the 2 man crew was about 5.2 feet in diameter. Plug in the proportions of the main sphere of the escape pod to the saucer's diameter from the episode "A Question of Priorities", and it comes out to be around 46 feet.
Phil Rae's blueprint puts the vehicle to be about 57 feet in diameter. Don't know what he used for the basis of its size. It could be plausible if you calculated the escape capsule in the episode "A Question of Priorities" to carry two crew and one "passenger", the main sphere to be about 6.4 feet in diameter. This would closely match the size of the sphere for the Alvin submersible, and it holds 3 people (in rather cramped quarters). And the proportions of the main sphere of the escape pod to the saucer's diameter match.
In the episode "Reflections In the Water," a UFO launches a missile which sinks a freighter. The freighter is known as a modern combination freighter (can carry passengers and cargo) and the starting size is 350 feet long (based on the design in the Naval History and Heritage Command website). Got the length through a perfect profile shot of the ship blowing up and the height of the stern mast. Matching that against the stern mast as the missile flies out of the water beside the ship, makes the missile about 22 feet long. The mast 45 feet high. Matched with the scene of the UFO firing the missile, makes it about 60 feet in diameter.
I am betting that the UFO in "Flight Path" would be the smallest, and the "Reflections In the Water" UFO is a close enough match to Phil Rae's UFO. It appears the size of the vehicle is dependent on the size of the crew.
The smallest version can be seen in the episode "Flight Path." The scene where the UFO flies over Roper's car. The life size car was 18 feet long. I estimate this particular UFO to be about 20 feet in diameter. If it carries an escape pod, the main sphere should be no smaller than 4 feet in diameter. The basis of this is the submarine Deepsea Challenger, where the sphere is this size, and holds only one person.
Then there is the UFO in the famous Japanese "pink book" which states the UFO is 46.3 feet in diameter. It took some research, and this is what I came up: in the 1960s, General Dynamics developed a submersible called STAR II. The sphere that carried the 2 man crew was about 5.2 feet in diameter. Plug in the proportions of the main sphere of the escape pod to the saucer's diameter from the episode "A Question of Priorities", and it comes out to be around 46 feet.
Phil Rae's blueprint puts the vehicle to be about 57 feet in diameter. Don't know what he used for the basis of its size. It could be plausible if you calculated the escape capsule in the episode "A Question of Priorities" to carry two crew and one "passenger", the main sphere to be about 6.4 feet in diameter. This would closely match the size of the sphere for the Alvin submersible, and it holds 3 people (in rather cramped quarters). And the proportions of the main sphere of the escape pod to the saucer's diameter match.
In the episode "Reflections In the Water," a UFO launches a missile which sinks a freighter. The freighter is known as a modern combination freighter (can carry passengers and cargo) and the starting size is 350 feet long (based on the design in the Naval History and Heritage Command website). Got the length through a perfect profile shot of the ship blowing up and the height of the stern mast. Matching that against the stern mast as the missile flies out of the water beside the ship, makes the missile about 22 feet long. The mast 45 feet high. Matched with the scene of the UFO firing the missile, makes it about 60 feet in diameter.
I am betting that the UFO in "Flight Path" would be the smallest, and the "Reflections In the Water" UFO is a close enough match to Phil Rae's UFO. It appears the size of the vehicle is dependent on the size of the crew.
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