Likeasaucer: a strange incident on u.s.tv in 1974

Towards the end of 1974, David Bowie appeared for a long interview on Dick Cavett's TV show. Bowie's fear of flying in aeroplanes was quite well known at the time, and some way into this interview, Dick Cavett asked him "Why won't you fly?" David Bowie replied "It scares me," and then elaborated by comparing the take-off of an aeroplane to someone running to the edge of a cliff to get to the other side and then jumping an opening, while physically demonstrating the running and jumping off. David Bowie then added as a very curious comparison "..if it was..," indicating with one hand a straight up vertical movement "..likeasaucer, ha!"