Frisco, North Carolina: Frisco Futuro House (Gone)
Silver flying saucer house was a portable, prefabricated home designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. This one had been here since 1972. Its caretaker, Leroy "resident alien" Reynolds, sometimes dressed in a green spaceman suit to greet visitors. Destroyed in a suspicious fire October 19, 2022.
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This UFO must have moved, for now it is on the south side of NC Highway 12. Various aliens stare at you from the windows. There is even a matching small boat next to the UFO, which brings up the question: why would aliens with advanced space travel technology need a dinghy?
[Frank Abbott, 08/01/2008]
My family and I saw this round, silver, alien ship next to a junkyard, while on a vacation to the Outer Banks in NC. About the size of a tow-able camper, it has several port-holes/windows with different alien faces and figures in each window. You can't see inside of it because the windows are blocked with black curtains.
[Nancy, 06/26/2005]
The (formerly) green UFO located on the NC Outer Banks is now sporting a spiffy new silver paint job. In addition to the new color, the base of the UFO is surrounded by landscaping timbers and pine bark. Looks very nice indeed! The only possible issue with this thing being painted silver is you get a nasty sun glare, but the overall effect is worth the price I suppose.
[Greg Brown, 09/23/2000]
Here is a picture of the flying saucer mentioned in the NC Archives. The saucer no longer serves as a restaurant and it sits just off HWY 12 on the NC Outer Banks in (or around) Frisco, NC.
[Greg Brown, 04/29/2000]I was in the North Carolina outer banks a few months ago, visiting a friend. We took a road trip one day down the banks, and on Hatteras Island below the Cape, somewhere between the towns of Hatteras and Buxton, we drove by a restaurant in the form of a life-sized, bright green flying saucer, with a larger-than-life plywood cutout alien standing in front of it. The ship is about the size of the Jupiter II from the "Lost in Space" TV series of 30 years ago. It stands off the ground on its landing gear, and you enter through a stairway ascending through the lower part of the hull. All the way around the outer hull of the saucer are large, round portholes.
[Eric Johnson, 08/02/1998]October 2003 - Janine reports "It isn't a restaurant. My boyfriend and I on vacation to Ocracoke NC stopped and went inside. It's like a flea market with tons and tons of old rings, stuffed animals, records toys etc. "
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Frisco Futuro House
- Directions:
- Hwy 12 around 52 miles south of the intersection of US 64/264 (Whalebone). Roughly midway between the towns of Buxton and Hatteras in Frisco, on the south side.
- Hours:
- Oct. 2022: Burned down.
- Status:
- Gone
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This is one of many pre-fab flying saucer homes manufactured in Pennsylvania in the late '60s-early -'70s, dubbed the "Futuro," and created by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. Nov. 2003 update: Dennis Coz reports it is painted shiny silver now, landscaped in a bed of wood chips.