Signal Mountain, Tennessee: Flying Saucer House

We followed the other folks' directions and came up the mountain and there it was. Awesome to see. There is a pull-off spot across the street from the house. It is still for sale by some company called Quest. There was no one there, so we stopped in the driveway on the street beside the house, which was much safer to use.

The flying saucer-shaped "Space House" on Chattanooga's Signal Mountain will be sold in an auction on March 15, 2008. It's not a Futuro saucer house, but a more custom dwelling, white with windows girdling the center and a balcony facing the woods. The Space House is suspended on six concrete pillars with 2,000 square feet of living space that includes three bedrooms and two bathroom.

Owned for a long time by a mysterious-but-friendly (our favorite combination) couple, the house was first reported on sale in Spring 2007.

Call the auction team at 423-473-9545 for more information. [Thanks to Robot Greg for the tip]

Twelve years ago I was in college, selling books door-to-door to pay my credit hour fees. I was with a girl who was teaching me how to sell - it was my first night. We walked up to this house and just gawked, it was so out of place with the rest of the "average middle-America" looking neighborhood.

I don't remember how we got their attention, but the residents dropped a staircase out of the bottom of the "ship", just like in the movies. An elderly lady asked if we'd like to see their home, and we walked up into it. I'll tell you, the people are nice though not very talkative. Very nice though. The inside is eclectic city. Black and white checkered floor, a suit of mail, a stuffed panther coffee table...very very interesting.

I was trying to be polite, and so I didn't ask many questions and we were only there long enough to show our books and leave. But I kick myself everyday for not asking why they chose the design for the house.

The two elderly people, strangest of all, were dressed in quite normal attire. I think the man was wearing a mechanics overalls. The only reason I pause to comment is because - now a teacher - I was telling my students about this interesting experience and promised them I'd check online to find out if it had all been a dream! Nope...! The Flying Saucer House remains the single most baffling, yet intriguing, thing I have ever seen, next to a David Lynch movie.

This house is on Signal Road, about halfway up the mountain in one of the switchback curves. An elderly couple has owned and lived in the house for as long as i know. the house is shaped like a "UFO" and rests on six "legs". The couple parks their van underneath the house and go up stairs that protrude from the bottom, like what you see on TV. The house is particularly odd, due to it being located in one of the most affluent areas in the Chattanooga area.

I snapped a pic of the "flying saucer house" mentioned in the TN archives. For a UFO house - it's pretty neat (and big)!