scoutcraft
See also: Scoutcraft
English
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editscoutcraft (countable and uncountable, plural scoutcrafts)
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editscoutcraft (plural scoutcrafts or scoutcraft)
- (rare, science fiction, ufology) A spacecraft used for scouting.
- 1994, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd[1]:
- Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.
- 1999, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 7:
- In August 1954 a Venusian scoutcraft allegedly flew Adamski around the moon, showing him extraterrestrial cities and hangars as well as forests, lakes, and rivers.
- 2001, Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City, page 298:
- He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft?
- 2006, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky, Pocket Books, page 32:
- In the ensuing years it had never come to that, yet every scoutcraft was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and every commander was prepared at all times to activate it.
- 2013, Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window, page 137:
- The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.