Jimmy Carter May Have Seen a UFO.

One of the interesting facts about Jimmy Carter is he may have seen a UFO. Two years before he was elected governor of Georgia, Carter was getting ready to deliver a speech at a Lions Club gathering one evening in 1969. One of the visitors alerted him to a weird object that was visible around 30 degrees above the horizon to the west of where he was standing at around 7:15 o'clock. The object, according to Carter, was dazzling white and about as bright as the moon. It was claimed to have gotten closer to where he was standing, but stopped just past a group of distant pine trees. The thing is then stated to have changed colors, going from white to blue to red before appearing to move away.

Carter believed that the thing was not solid in nature and was instead self-illuminating. According to Carter's story, it was seen by perhaps ten or twelve other persons and was visible for 10 to twelve minutes before it disappeared from view.

Carter stated in 1973: “There were about twenty of us standing outside a little restaurant, I believe, a high school lunchroom, and a kind of green light appeared in the western sky. This was right after sundown. It got brighter and brighter. And then it eventually disappeared. It didn't have any solid substance to it, it was just a very peculiar-looking light. None of us could understand what it was.”