Genial weirdo building flying saucer

January 22, 2009, 9:08 AM — Alfie Carrington, a 56-year-old dishwasher and construction worker, has spent 30 years and $70,000 on his flying saucer design. Despite people who actually know how to build aircraft repeatedly telling him it won't work and the fact that he believes he's being "suppressed by NASA and the Energy Department," he continues on with his beautiful, doomed dream.