A table top game unit wherein two opposing players direct air streams to each control their own unidentified flying objects (U.F.O.'s) in the form of flying saucers to cause them to collide against each other until the opposing U.F.O.'s are ejected from the game area.

This invention is concerned with game devices; and more particularly, with 
game devices using air streams for controlling individual, unique flying 
saucers. 
Games of combat between warring vehicles or aircraft have always enjoyed a 
great deal of popularity. Such games of combat have, in the past, relied 
largely on chance rendered by the throwing of dice or the spinning of an 
arrowed indicator. The popularity of such games have increased when there 
has also been some element of skill involved in the game. 
Generally, the more popular games have also involved mobile vehicles or 
aircraft and the requirement to use skill in manipulating the mobile 
craft. therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a 
new and entertaining combat game which combines mobile aircraft and 
requires skill in manipulating and moving the aircraft in competition with 
other players. 
A related object of the present invention is to provide competitive combat 
games wherein each of the players manipulate a moving flying saucer-like 
device and wherein the flying saucerlike devices actually are manipulated 
to collide with each other until one of the players' colliding flying 
saucers are forced past the periphery wherein the air stream maintains 
flight; and thus, the flying saucers fall and are effectively "shot down". 
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a plurality of 
flying saucers for each of combatants in the inventive game so that the 
loss by one player of a single or a plurality of flying saucers does not 
necessarily mean that player is eliminated from the game. 
Yet another related object of the present invention is to provide a unique 
air stream manipulating tube for controlling flying saucers. 
Still another object of the present invention is to use a single air 
compressor for providing an air stream for both of the combatants 
utilizing the inventive game. 
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide unique flying 
saucers which can be controlled by the air stream in the environment of 
the game. 
Another object of the present invention is to provide individual sections 
of the game which are easily clamped together for assembling the complete 
game, thus enabling the game to be shipped or stored in a knocked down 
condition. 
In one preferred embodiment of the present invention a base unit is 
provided containing an air compressor. Also in the base unit are the 
batteries for operating the motor driven air compressor. 
The air compressor is preferrably centrally located in the base under a 
domed unit. Central to the dome are the motorized vanes which direct air 
into a pair of spaced apart vertical parallel tubes normally perpendicular 
to the base unit. A pair of side walls hold a plastic roof over the base 
unit. The roof contains means for storing a plurality of flying saucers in 
the rest position; i.e., when they are not being motivated by a stream of 
air. 
The flying saucers are uniquely shaped so that air is directed at the 
flying saucers causing them to rotate. They spin around a pyramidal 
projection abutting the roof. The air tubes are movable enabling aiming 
the air stream at the flying saucers and controlling the movement of the 
flying saucers around the roof. Each player forces his flying saucer to 
collide with the other players' flying saucer at opportune times until one 
or the other of the opposing flying saucers is forced out of the range of 
the air directed from the tube controlling that flying saucer so that the 
flying saucer crashes to the ground. The first participant to force down 
all the flying saucers of the other participant is the winner.

The fighting U.F.O. game 11 includes a base unit 12 having a pair of 
oppositely disposed substantially vertical standards or walls 13 and 14. 
The walls support a transparent ceiling unit 16. The ceiling unit 
provides, among other things, means for parking U.F.O.'s or flying 
saucers, such as flying saucer 17. The ceiling unit also provides a 
surface on which the flying saucers rotate, when actuated by an airstream. 
The base unit includes a centrally located dome 19 and compartments for 
storing batteries, such as compartments 21 and 22. A battery 23 is shown 
in the partial sectional view of compartment 21. 
Means are provided for activating the power circuitry controlling the air 
compressor pump within the dome. More particularly, switch 24 couples the 
battery to the electrical motor driven air compressor pump located in the 
dome. 
Means are provided for selectively directing the air stream toward 
particular ones of the flying saucers. More particularly, air tubes 26 and 
26A are provided which can be moved around their base axle in any 
direction. Means, such as the accordian pleated sections 27, 27A enable 
such rotational manipulation of each of the air tubes. 
As best seen in FIG. 6, the motor 28 is mounted by pressfitting it into the 
motor compartment defined by the upstanding cylindrical section 37. The 
shaft 29 of motor 28 extends through floor section 38 of the compressor 
and is attached to the compressor blades 31 in any manner well known to 
those skilled in the art. The blades 31 comprise a multiplicity of vanes, 
such as vanes 32 and 33. 
The floor of the base 12 is shown as floor 39 in FIG. 6. Roof section 16 is 
shown attached to upstanding standard or wall support 13. Also, shown in 
FIG. 6 is the landing facilities for the flying saucers, such as U.F.O. 
17. More particularly, there is shown press-fitted into the roof section 
16 a plurality of large headed pegs, such as peg 41, having a head 42 
which remains spaced apart from the roof 16. The landing pegs are 
triangularly spaced to best support the flying saucers when at rest. For 
example, U.F.O. 17 is shown at rest in FIG. 1 and supported on the three 
landing pegs 41, 43, 44. The spacing of the pegs enable moving the flying 
saucers away from the landed position responsive to a moving stream of 
air. The landing pegs are also positioned so that the flying saucers share 
intermediate ones of the landing pegs. Thus, for example, five landing 
pegs support two flying saucers. 
It should be noted that the flying saucers each comprise a peripheral 
member 46 surrounding a plurality of blades, such as blade 47, extending 
from a hub section 48. The blades are angled downward from a horizontal 
rod 49 and the leading end of each of the blades is angled from the 
peripheral member to the hub section. The hub section 48 includes an 
upstanding pyramidal projection 51 which is designed to abut the roof 16, 
when the flying saucer is in the air stream. Projection 51 provides a 
pivotal axis around which the flying saucer rotates, when activated by an 
air stream from the tubes 26 or 26A. 
FIG. 4 shows opposing saucer 52 which is used to fight the flying saucer 
17. The flying saucer 52 of FIG. 4, it should be noted, also has a 
circumferential section 46 and a hub section 48 with the upstanding 
pyramidal projection 51. However, the blades of flying saucer 52, such as 
blade 53, are angled downward in the direction 90 degrees out of phase of 
the blades of flying saucer 17. Therefore, flying saucer 52 rotates in a 
direction opposite to that of flying saucer 17, when air is directed at 
the flying saucers. If the opposing flying saucers are rotated in the same 
direction, then when they collide with each other, the rotation of both 
the flying saucers would be abrogated and both of the opposing flying 
saucers would fall from the ceiling. 
FIG. 8 best shows the counter rotating flying saucers 17 and 52. The 
rotation is indicated by the arrows, such as arrows A and B, respectively. 
One of the features of the fighting U.F.O. game is the ease with which it 
is assembled from its "knocked down" condition. More particularly, as seen 
in FIG. 2, for example, the walls 13 and 14 are designed to clip to the 
base unit 12, and the transparent ceiling unit 16 is designed to clip 
directly to the walls. More particularly, the walls 13 and 14 comprise 
oppositely disposed spaced apart parallel flat sections 56 and 57. The 
flat sections 56 and 57 are reinforced by the flanges 58 and 59 which 
respectively extend down the centers of the walls 13 and 14. 
The top sections 61 and 62 of the walls 13 and 14, respectively, are 
parallel to each other. The bottom portions 63 and 64 of the walls 13 and 
14, respectively, extend away from each other. 
Means are provided for snapping the walls to the base unit. More 
particularly, as seen in FIG. 2, flange 58 of wall 13 extends to form a 
hook section 66 beyond the bottom of the wall unit. The hook section 66 
extends into an aperture 67 on floor 39. The outer end 68 of the hook 
section 66 is arcuate while the inner end 69 abuts the bottom of the floor 
39, when the wall unit is snapped into place standing erect and holding 
the ceiling unit 16. The transparent ceiling unit 16 includes a pair of 
protruding nipples, such as nipple 71, which extends through an aperture 
72 near the top of the flat section 61 of wall 13 to receive the ceiling 
unit to the walls. 
In assembling, the wall units are first fit into the base 12 of the game 
unit and then the ceiling unit 16 is positioned with its nipples, such as 
nipple 71, extending through the apertures in the wall sections. The 
ceiling unit 16 is thus held firmly in place supported by the oppositely 
disposed walls 13 and 14 and actually aids in supporting the walls. 
In operation switch 24 is operated to extend battery power to motor 28 
turning the fan units 31 to send air through dome funnel portions 34 and 
36 and into the tubes 26 and 26A. The tubes 26 and 26A are readily mounted 
to funnels 34 and 36 using accordian pleated sections 27 and 27A. The 
tubes are positioned by the "players", as shown in FIG. 7 by rotating 
around the movable pleated accordian section 27, 27A. 
To remove the flying saucers from the landing or at rest positions among 
the landing pins or pegs, such as peg 41, and to attempt to force the 
opponents flying saucers from the range of the opponents tube, each player 
directs an air stream at his own flying saucer. This causes the flying 
saucer to be lifted from the supporting landing pegs and to rotate around 
pyramidal projection 51 abutting the ceiling unit 16. The tubes have a 
remarkable degree of dexterity and the opposing players have the freedom 
of moving the versatile tubes to maneuver their respective flying saucers 
in attempting to "shoot down" the opponents flying saucer by timely 
collisions between the opposing flying saucers. 
While the principles of the invention have been described above in 
connection with specific apparatus and applications it is to be understood 
that this description is made by way of example only and not as a 
limitation on the scope of the invention.