Rocket-Bye Baby is a 1956 Warner Bros. animated cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on August 4, 1956. The Michael Maltese story follows the adventures of a baby from Mars who ends up on Earth after the planets pass close to each other and create a 'cosmic force'. It was Warner Brothers' take on the borderline hysteria surrounding UFOs in the 1950s.