Off-the-record conversations about UFOs and alien civilizations that former President Jimmy Carter, who died last month at the age of 100, had with reporters have been revealed.
NPR's Scott Simon had a phone conversation with Carter in the “late 1900s” when he was writing a story about a support group for people who believed they were victims of alien abductions. I remembered.
When he called Carter, then a reporter and now a columnist, he said something eye-opening. off the record conversation This spooky subject is now shared by Simon in light of the death of a centenarian.
“The way I see it, there's nothing to be afraid of,” Carter said. “If there is life out there, we are still part of the same master plan. God's hand is big enough to grasp us both.”
Carter also shared his thoughts on the possibility of alien visits and possible actions.
“So based on what you saw, there's no reason to think there's life there?” Simon asked the peanut farmer.
“I don't know about that,” Carter replied. “But even if there were, it has nothing to do with UFOs. If other civilizations were out there, I doubt they would send big, bulky airships. Maybe they would just watch and watch. He will leave us alone.”
The reporter said, “I was impressed by President Carter's thoughtfulness'' on this often-discussed issue.
A former Georgia governor once witnessed a UFO and shared the story of the encounter. GQ Magazine In 2005.
“I saw an unidentified flying object,” he said of the 1969 experience.
Carter said that at a Lions Club dinner where he was scheduled to speak, “about 25 of us men” witnessed an ethereal sight.
“And suddenly one of the men looked up and said, 'Look, to the west!' And there was a bright light in the sky. We all saw it. It came closer and closer to us, and then it stopped, I don't know how far away, beyond a pine tree, / And suddenly the color changed to blue, then red. And then I went back to white,” he told GQ.
Carter made it clear that he never believed the object came from “outer space.”
“As far as covering up the possibility of flights from distant satellites or distant objects, I don't believe in that, and there's no evidence that it's been covered up. Or that extraterrestrials will come to Earth. , I don't think that's ever happened before,'' Carter added.
Carter left behind an unprecedented and subsequently unparalleled legacy of UFO exposures.
The son of the Peach State promised during his 1976 presidential campaign that the federal government would release everything it knew about the case.
“Jimmy Carter is responsible for releasing about half of the government's UFO files to the public,” Grant Cameron, author of “Jimmy Carter: A Story of the Paranormal and UFOs,” told the Post in 2023. .
Legendary actress Shirley MacLaine, a personal friend of Carter's, said Carter had stronger views on the issue than he admitted publicly.
“When I first wrote, he told me over and over. [my book] “I believed that he supported me, that it was true, that there was a craft, that there was a resident,” the “Terms of Endearment” star said on “The Larry King Show” in 1995. spoke.
