The Sanjhih, Sanzhi or San Zhi pod resort near Taipei was started in 1978 by a plastics industrialist who went bankrupt in 1980 and the banks sealed up the site. In 1989, a development company bought the unfinished UFO houses for $700m new Taiwan dollars, planning a five star resort hotel with the first yacht marina in the north of Taiwan. Within months it was abandoned again.
 
The abandoned buildings then became something of a tourist attraction until in 2007 the government ordered the development company to dismantle the houses because the ruins were considered dangerous and they detracted from the look of the town. Despite an online petition to save the buildings by 2010 the site had been cleared.
 
In 2008 Leo Chang, a photojournalist from Taiwan, wrote that the buildings should be classed as historic monuments:

At the end of the seventies Taiwan had just overcome the oil crisis and was embracing a new economic boom. The flying saucer resort is a representation of the affluence of that time - the money that people had to spend on new and fancy things. But sadly, the owner went bankrupt before he had time to complete the project.
 
Although they were abandoned thirty years ago, people passing by today are still very impressed by the very unique architecture of these buildings. And they are still famous. That has a lot to do with all the ghost stories written about them. It is said that in the 17th century hundreds of thousands of Dutch soldiers were buried underneath the ground that the UFO houses stand on. Some people even say that ghosts are still flying around the houses. The idea of haunted houses attracts people - the resort has become a hotspot for tourists now. It is also a talking point on the web. I think the Taiwanese Council for Culture should preserve these houses as national historic monuments. But the authorities do not care about the history of monuments. They are more interested in making loads of money

None of the pods seem to have been rescued and saved for posterity.