Name: The Mysterious Genius Who Patented the UFO
Uploaded: 2020-04-05T02:30:13.000Z
Duration: 10 min 15 s
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This is the story about a forgotten genius,

a gifted sculptor, artist, and modern-day Leonardo da Vinci,

his fixation with the past, and living on borrowed time.

from a guy named Randy Hunter, who was promising

me the greatest nonfiction story never told.

It was about this inventor, who lived here,

I bit on this email, and for the last two years,

I've been coming to this guy, Randy Hunter's, place,

Meet Randy, a successful art dealer and fine art collector.

Weygers was born in 1901, in the Dutch East Indies.

As a teen, he moved to Europe to study engineering,

and then moved to the US to study sculpting.

Near the end of World War II, Weygers settled

from recycled materials, and objects crafted

that other people threw away turned him into a cult figure.

Youngsters traveled from around the world

to take his tool making and sculpting classes.

This is probably the most photographed Weygers, so far.

when for the first time, his sculptures were put on sale.

of hitting it big by finding an unknown artist

and making him famous, and figured that Weygers was his man.

But what started as a business deal turned

Over the next 10 years, Randy spent countless hours,

down Weygers' sketches, personal belongings,

and all the finished artwork he could lay his hands on.

He produced a movie about Weygers, wrote a book

What draws you, what makes you fascinated about this man?

I could see the depth in his work immediately,

and he needed to be shared with the public.

The version of Randy you're seeing is more sedate

than the affable, chatty salesman I first met.

he's not the same guy that he used to be,

and Randy might not get to see the end of that story.

During his hunt into Weygers' life, Randy discovered

something extraordinary, hand-drawn designs

for an exotic aircraft, dating back to the 1920s.

Alex appeared to have invented the very first flying saucer.

it was undeniable that he was the creator.

he thought cities of the future would make full use of.

to all kinds of companies, telling them about his invention.

to spread, Alex felt the US military stole the idea.

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