Langston Hughes

flying saucer n.	1952 L. Hughes Simple Discusses News and Gets It All Confused in Chicago Defender 2 Aug. 10/7 The only time colored folks is front page news is when there’s been a race riot and a whole lot of us have been butchered up. [...] Everybody these days is seeing flying saucers in the sky. Everybody but a Negro—all over the front pages. If a Negro did see one, I bet they wouldn’t report it. They probably won’t even let flying saucers fly over Harlem, just to keep us from seeing one.