Future eco-friendly airplanes to resemble UFOs?

Label: Design Concepts, Technology Apparently, flying saucers are the future of eco-friendly vehicles. Who knew? While highways being full of hover saucers might not be happening anytime soon, some aeronautical engineers envision airports loading passengers up into flying saucers and sending them off into the air. Apparently, the age of tube aircraft with wings is coming to an end.

Right now air travel accounts for 3% of carbon emissions worldwide, but that figure stands to rise to 5% if planes aren't redesigned to be more efficient. Apparently, ditching the wings and throwing flying saucers into the air will help do that. I'm no scientist, but I do know that it would be pretty cool if the airplanes we know now disappeared and were replaced with what basically look like spacecraft from another galaxy