In the interview Carter stated that he did not believe the object was Venus, explaining that he was an amateur astronomer and knew what Venus looked like. This could also be the Venus "Halo", as was discussed on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast #105 in a 2007 interview with Jimmy Carter. Ufologist Robert Sheaffer concluded that the object that Carter witnessed was a misidentification of Venus Ufologist Allan Hendry did calculations and agrees with the assessment of it being Venus. On January 6, 1969, the sky was clear in Leary and the planet Venus was near its maximum brightness and in the direction described by Carter. While puzzled by the object and its origins, Carter himself later said that, while he had considered the object to be a UFO-on the grounds it was unexplained-his knowledge of physics had meant he had not believed himself to be witnessing an alien spacecraft. it had been pretty far back in my mind." According to Fred Hart, the only guest contacted who remembered seeing the object: "It seems like there was a little-like a blue light or something or other in the sky that night-like some kind of weather balloon they send out or something. Object and investigation Īccording to an investigation carried out in 1976, some seven years after the event, most of those present at the meeting either did not recall the event, or did not recall it as being anything important. Second, the Leary Lions Club disbanded several months before October 1969. First, Carter visited the Leary Lions Club in his capacity as district governor of the Lions Club. Other evidence rules out the October 1969 date and is consistent with January 1969. His report to the Lions Club made no mention of the sighting itself. The setting of his January meeting as described in his report to the Lions Club also matches the setting that he would later describe to the media when speaking about his sighting. Īccording to a meeting report that he filed with the Lions Club, Carter gave his Leary speech on January 6, 1969, not in October. However investigators have cited Lions Club records as evidence that it occurred nine months earlier. According to the report that he filed with the International UFO Bureau four years after the incident, Carter saw the UFO in October 1969. The exact date on which the sighting occurred has been called into question by investigators. And we were trying to figure out what in the world it could be, and then it receded into the distance. And all of a sudden it changed color to blue, and then it changed to red, then back to white. And then it stopped, I don't know how far away, but it stopped beyond the pine trees. And then the light, it got closer and closer to us. Speaking in a 2005 interview, Carter said:Īll of a sudden, one of the men looked up and said, 'Look, over in the west!' And there was a bright light in the sky. It didn't have any solid substance to it, it was just a very peculiar-looking light. There were about twenty of us standing outside of a little restaurant, I believe, a high school lunch room, and a kind of green light appeared in the western sky. Carter's report indicates that it was witnessed by about ten or twelve other people, and was in view for ten to twelve minutes before it passed out of sight. The object is then said to have changed color, first to blue, then to red, then back to white, before appearing to recede into the distance.Ĭarter felt that the object was self-illuminated, and not solid in nature. It was said to have closed in on where he was standing but to have stopped beyond a stand of pine trees some distance from him. Carter described the object as being bright white and as being about as bright as the moon. At about 7:15 pm ( EST), one of the guests called his attention to a strange object that was visible about 30 degrees above the horizon to the west of where he was standing. One evening in 1969, two years before he became Governor of Georgia, Carter was preparing to give a speech at a Lions Club meeting.
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