UFO Welcome Center, UFO tourist attraction in Bowman, South Carolina, US

The UFO Welcome Center was a tourist attraction in Bowman, South Carolina, featuring a 46-foot-wide flying saucer structure made of wood, fiberglass, and plastic mounted on four motorized columns. The interior included basic amenities such as a bed, satellite television, and air conditioning, with a second smaller saucer added on top in 2003.

A local resident built this unconventional tourist destination in 1994 and added a second structure in 2003. The building was destroyed by fire in May 2024.

Jody Pendarvis called himself an ambassador to aliens, and the saucer was fitted out as their rest stop, with a bed, satellite television, air conditioning, toilet and shower. A painted blue wooden tip container stood in place of an admission fee before the charge rose to $20 by 2016. In March 2022 a scrap-metal missile marked "To Puttin" [sic] was added in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The center stood in Jody Pendarvis's back yard in Bowman, off Interstate 26 between Columbia and Charleston, so visitors came by car. Entry was through a powered ramp that raised and lowered the saucer on its four motorized columns. The structure burned down on May 9, 2024, and nothing remains to visit.

Jody Pendarvis built the saucer in his back yard and, in 2003, added a smaller 20-foot saucer on top, where he spent summers because it was cooler than his nearby mobile home. In March 2022 he mounted a scrap-metal missile on the site painted "To Puttin" [sic].