The phrase "alien ship" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to science fiction, discussions about extraterrestrial life, or any narrative involving spaceships from other planets.
Example: "The crew aboard the alien ship was astonished by the advanced technology they encountered."
Alternatives: "extraterrestrial vessel" or "spaceship from another world".
Try to make contact with that big alien ship, or carry on to the next star, despite your dwindling fuel?
Naturally, people who believe that the Government covered up a crashed alien ship for 50 years will be inclined to dismiss these reports as just more covering-up.
The refugees' troubles are only beginning when they escape to the alien ship, which is starting to break down after eons of travel.
The alien ship is a bizarre and entertaining place with mucilaginous corridors and stinging tentacles growing from the floors and ceilings.
In "Panel" he enlivens that deadly dull convention, the panel discussion; the glowing participants (Mr. Tuymans among them) are touched by vertical rays, as if they were being beamed up to an alien ship.
We are plunged back into the Apollo space program, which, it turns out, was inspired less by the urge to trounce the Russians than by an alien ship that had crashed on the lunar surface.
ESA's confirmation that the comet had been emitting a "mystery song" has fuelled theories that it is in fact an alien ship and the warbling is an extra-terrestrial attempt at communication.
Eventually, Erasmas spies what he thinks is an alien ship in the sky, leading to his dismissal from his monastery and finally setting the plot of "Anathem" in motion.
At Discovery News, Ray Villard reports on a group of "psychics" that says Apollo 16 astronauts found an alien ship on the moon: A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
The jet of flame beneath the alien ship is no longer a purplish spurt; it is now a ball of fire that burns a peculiar pink, as if E.T. and his fellow-travellers stoked their engines with bubble gum, and had stopped by on Earth to pick up supplies.
In a recently released book, "The Day After Roswell," (Pocket Books, 1997) Philip J. Corso, who served on the National Security Council under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, contends that he personally directed an Army project that transferred to the military various types of technology -- including fiber optics and a microchip -- recovered from the alien ship that crashed in the desert.
