Interstellar Opportunity
Here's your chance to own your very own split-level flying saucer! An unusual flying saucer shaped home is up for auction in Tennessee. Built in 1970, the odd structure stands on six "landing legs" and sports a curved custom bar.
The home "landed" on a twisting road leading to Chattanooga's Signal Mountain in 1970 — just after television executives grounded the run of the original "Star Trek" series. It will be sold to the highest bidder Saturday.
The circular house — ultramodern when it was built — is ringed with small square windows and directional lights and perched on six "landing gear" legs. It has multiple levels, three bedrooms, two baths and an entrance staircase that retracts with the push of a button.
Terry Posey, an agent with Crye-Leike Auctions of Cleveland, Tennessee, said the current owner has had the property only four months and didn't want to comment. Posey posted an e-Bay ad and said he already has a $100,000 bid.
John Kleeman of Litchfield, Connecticut, an attorney and space culture enthusiast, said he knows of variations of the flying saucer design in Florida, Connecticut and California.
I'm familiar with what is known as the "Mushroom House" in the Rochester, New York area (the current owners apparently dislike that label, preferring "Pod House.") The man who used to farm the land around our house in Illinois lived in a round house - it was not saucer-shaped, just round. One word of caution on this style of home, however. These are not recommended for families with small children.
You can't make a kid stand in a corner in one of them.
By kidrob, Saturday, 15 March , 2008 @ 6:25 am
hey there’s a WHITE HOUSE for dennis
By Lars Walker, Saturday, 15 March , 2008 @ 7:45 am
I spent a couple nights in a geodesic dome once, which naturally had rounded walls on the exterior. Made it very inconvenient for bookshelves.
By Mwalimu Daudi, Saturday, 15 March , 2008 @ 9:21 am
You can’t make a kid stand in a corner in one of them.
But you can beam them into outer space. Or leave them onboard the mothership if the misbehave.
By Bleepless, Saturday, 15 March , 2008 @ 11:44 am
They say that these are terrestrial buildings just shaped like alien spaceships. Don’t be naive.
By martian, Saturday, 15 March , 2008 @ 12:22 pm
Hey, Bleepless, don’t give away my peoples’ secrets! How better to infiltrate your planet than by flying in ships that you people think are just oddly shaped homes?