Jimmy Carter's UFO Sighting
On September 18, 1973, future President Jimmy Carter filed a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena about something he and ten other people had witnessed in Leary, GA. It was “very bright [with] changing colors and about the size of the moon,� he said, adding that, “The object hovered about 30 degrees above the horizon and moved in toward the earth and away before disappearing into the distance.�
He promised never to ridicule people who claimed to see UFOs.
Had the Internet existed then, Carter might have quickly determined that NASA had been used short-range rocket to launch a payload of barium, strontium, and cupric oxide—typical firework chemicals—into the upper atmosphere so that scientists could better understand high-altitude air currents and cloud movement.
If he believed NASA, that is.
During his 1976 presidential campaign, he promised that, if elected, he would release “every piece of information� about UFOs available to the public and to scientists. After winning, however, he decided against the release of information on the grounds that it might pose a threat to national security.
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