25 Mind-Blowing UFO Tattoo Ideas

You’ve come to the right place if you love tattoos and out-of-this-world designs! UFO tattoos are becoming increasingly popular, providing an exciting way to express your unique style. Whether it’s a flourishing sky with mysterious UFOs dotting its canvas or intricate space scenes begging for exploration, there is something for everyone.

Here we suggest 25 stellar ideas for UFO tattoo designs that will elevate any ink enthusiast’s look—and send them on a fun journey into another dimension! There is no right or wrong way to go about designing your UFO tattoo. In fact, the weirder, the better. Let’s kick things off with a bang!

Shark Abduction

The aliens are mining the depths of our seas in this UFO tattoo with a shark being abducted. Most UFO tattoos will show some sort of abduction so it’s fun to see what creatures each one features.

Kawaii Goodness

We are big fans of cute kawaii tattoos, and this one is delightful. It features every color of the rainbow, along with sparkles, tiny hearts, shooting stars, and cake!

The Love UFO Tattoo

Here’s a unique option for a UFO tattoo in black and grey ink. It takes a neo-traditional approach with simple yet clean lines and stippling to shade the objects. The little heart on top is the icing on the proverbial cake.

They’ve Come for the Coffee

Here’s a UFO tattoo that all coffee lovers can get behind. After all, wouldn’t aliens come for the most delicious and beloved human export?

UFO Meets Arcade Carpet

Style over substance for the win. In this UFO tattoo, we find fun and celebratory shapes in bright colors trapped inside the beam of a UFO. It’s proof that any tattoo can be made using your aesthetic, no matter how “out there” it may seem.

Sure, Why Not?

A blue frog playing an electric guitar? Here for it! This is true for any design, but UFO tattoos lend themselves to wonderfully weird concepts and subject matter. You get to make the rules!

Not the Cat!

Okay, we have a secret about UFO tattoos to share with you. For whatever reason, the ones with cats are the best. We saw dozens of UFO designs with furry felines and could have dedicated an entire list to their existence. This heart shape is filled with celestial imagery and a friendly-looking alien and one scared cat. Bravo!

A Delicate One

We’ve seen a lot of big and bold UFO tattoos thus far, and that’s because they are the most popular. However, you can choose a smaller, more delicate design if that’s your style. Fine lines and a light touch are all it takes.

We Do Too

“I want to believe,” this tattoo proclaims, featuring an image made famous by The X-Files. If you loved that show and all the alien shenanigans it featured, you could do no better for inspiration for that UFO tattoo.

Do You Agree?

“Aliens exist,” says a banner draped over a pyramid scene. We imagine this design speaks to fans of Ancient Aliens.

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Oops, There Goes Another Cat

As promised, here’s another cat being abducted. This one is super stylish with a strict gold, green, and purple color scheme. Find an artist who can help realize your vision and you could walk away with something equally as singular.

Radical Color

We love the color application for this dazzling UFO tattoo that features one adorable cow. Green and pink contrast beautifully here, giving the design some balance.

A Minimalist Approach

Again, if you want a small UFO tattoo, go for it! It can be as simple as this. With just a few lines, you’ll have a design that’s instantly recognizable.

A Big Piece

On the other hand, a maximalist approach is also fun. If you’ve got the time, pain threshold, and money for such a commitment, an aliene scene that covers all or part of your arm could be fun.

Puppy Love

This is precious! While cat UFO tattoos are more popular, pups are also getting abducted. This cartoonish style is just the sweetest one yet.

Micro

Micro tattoos are a big trend today. Take a look at that teeny-tiny character being sucked into the UFO. Isn’t this so exciting? Proof that the smaller details make the biggest impressions.

A Wild One

If you’re going to do the thing, do the thing. We find an absolutely bonkers UFO tattoo with a human skull being pried open to release the brain.

What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

Another popular character for UFO tattoos is dinosaurs. It’s a fun concept because it imagines our ancient ancestors having some connection to the alien world. We find a sort of silhouette style for this one that looks brilliant.

Jellyfish UFO

We mean it when we tell you that UFO tattoos are on a whole other level. A UFO is a jellyfish in this gorgeous but bizarre design. If you can dream it, a tattoo artist can make it real.

Okay…

Just do you, folks. We’ve got a glitter-specked UFO tattoo inside a mouth for this example. It’s the kind of offbeat weirdness we live for.

Bob Ross and a Happy Tree

It just keeps getting more and more surreal, doesn’t it? We find Bob Ross‘s head as the canvas for this UFO tattoo that features a spacecraft abducting a “happy tree.” How do we get on this level?

Retro

If you are a fan of classic sci-fi, a UFO tattoo inspired by old movies, comics, and literature could be the right direction to take your design. This reminds us of old-school Lost in Space.

Wonderfully Weird

Black ink is all it takes to bring a trippy UFO tattoo to life. We get a standard spacecraft here, but the object oozing from the port is surreal. How cool is that?

Haunting

Due to their fantastical nature, we did not see many UFO tattoos concerned with realism. That makes this design really stand out as it features expert shading and technique. We’re here for the Metropolis vibes this tattoo is sending out.

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Lucky Ducky

Finally, we leave you with a cute rubber duck being sucked into a UFO. Any object you adore will work in this sort of application. The sky’s the limit!

There you go! We hope you fell in love with these UFO tattoos and got some ideas for your next design. You can really lean into your weird side for these sorts of designs, as the more offbeat and fantastical, the better. For even more fun ink inspiration, keep on reading!

Discover the Coolest Optical Illusion Tattoos Below:

The Twist

What is happening!? Twists like these are very popular and effective optical illusions and you’ll see a few variations on this list. Can you handle this twist?

Make It Stop

A somewhat new trend these days is the 3-D tattoo that features two different color inks and identical objects. Here, we’re treated to a rose that looks rather far-out.

Nope

We’ve now seen the devil. This hidden skull satan-creature is terrifying. The tattoo itself is so neat and tidy and shows some remarkable skill.

Your Eyes Are Not Crossed

Red, green, and blue are the primary colors used in varying degrees on TV screens to make the picture come to life. The concept is on display here for this Star Wars Rebel Alliance symbol. What a stunner!

Oh, Hello

Here, we find a skull that’s shaped by soft, gorgeous florals. Skulls are pretty ubiquitous for tattoos, but this one feels very fresh and looks amazing.

Enter the Void

As we mentioned, swirls are the optical illusion du jour and this one with cubes falling into its center is a fine example. This was a bold choice for the top of the hand and we think it paid off.

Swirls

As far as butterfly tattoos go, we don’t see too many like this. This trippy design in black and grey is complete with a cute flower and black drops.

Nah

That very first twist we showed you is taken to a whole new level in this design and appears to come from under ripped (sorry) skin. This is both very cool and very gross.

Seeing Double

It’s not you, this really does make your eyes go berserk for a moment. This is very fun, but we feel that if the two skulls were closer together this might be a touch more effective.

Double Trouble

See? Like this! We don’t understand the science behind this, so it might as well be magic, but these two clasped hands is a total trip. How does this person look at this everyday?

Classic

Is it two faces or a vase? You get to decide. This brings back childhood memories of seeing this for the first time and thinking it was some sort of mysterious, evil sign.

Vertigo

This reminds us of the poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Additionally, this shape works very well because it complements the natural roundness of the shoulder.

Fall In to the Portal

Nope. We’d never want to look down and feel like we’re falling through the floor or that our foot has sunken into a black hole. Where do you think this portal leads?

Ummm

This magnificent geometric design just might break your brain. Once we realized the nipples were also tattooed over it made more sense. What a thrill.

Stop

These portals and hole illusion are almost too much to handle. It’s clear that these designs are some of the most favored in this genre.

Checkers That Hypnotize

Here, we get the familiar twist shape but instead of swirls, the illusion is created by checkers. We’re not entirely sure how the tattoo artist didn’t lose their mind while making this. What a wild ride!

Nothing Is Real

Reality is canceled. Who? Why? This candle-stump-hand design is one of the weirder ones on the list and we might need to take a breather. Placed in front of a black background, this tattoo is completely mind-shattering.

In Your Head

This very neat tattoo makes us deeply uncomfortable. There’s a Twin Peaks quality to it that we can’t quite put our finger on. Yes, the geometric pattern steals the show, but check out how amazing the hair looks.

Escher?

The King of trippy, mathematical art, MC Escher, inspired this completely bizarre design. This actually turned us into a floating ribbon in space.

Okay

Here’s a different way to get that 3-D look. This creepy skull looks like it’s in motion thanks to this careful design.

Don’t Break Your Brain

Here’s another skull wrapped in swirls. The eyesockets and other features really do look like they’re sunken into the skin. What a little creeper.

What a Ball

Here’s a neat trick that imagines a ball underneath those thick, black lines. This is both bold and delicate, somehow and we really like this tattoo.

Yikes

We’d like to speak to the manager because this is simply too much. This giant back piece is a mountain scene made extremely weird by floating hexagon shapes.

You Guys…

Please stop putting holes in things! In this deeply unsettling image, we’re treated to another portal this time made with a checkered pattern. We wonder how much loose change gets lost in there.

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Oh, Boy

Okay, we’re done. Finished. This is officially over. Who? Why? How? This is entirely too much illusion to handle!

There you go! If you’re like us, you’ve lost all sense of how space works and you are experiencing an existential crisis. It’ll be fine. We suggest taking a walk, but be sure not to look down.