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(NewsNation) — Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday astatine property 100, near down a unsocial bequest of openness astir UFO sightings, including his ain brushwood successful 1969, and a connection to imaginable alien civilizations that proceed to question done space.
As a rising person successful Georgia, Carter reported seeing an unidentified flying object extracurricular a Lions Club successful Leary, Georgia. He described a agleam orb that changed colors from bluish to reddish to white, moving toward and distant from the radical of astir 25 witnesses earlier disappearing beyond the conifer trees, per History.com.
"I've ne'er believed that it came from Mars," Carter told GQ mag successful 2005. "I cognize capable physics to cognize that you can't person vehicles that are tangible successful quality flying from Mars, looking around, and past flying back."
Carter said, "And each of a sudden, 1 of the men looked up and said, ‘Look, implicit successful the west!’ And determination was a agleam airy successful the sky. We each saw it. And past the light, it got person and person to us. And past it stopped, I don’t cognize however acold away, but it stopped beyond the conifer trees. And each of a abrupt it changed colour to blue, and past it changed to red, past backmost to white."
In 1973, then-Governor Carter filed an authoritative study with the International UFO Bureau, according to History.com. During his 1976 statesmanlike campaign, helium promised to merchandise each authorities UFO accusation if elected.
However, aft winning the presidency, Carter backed distant from this pledge, citing nationalist information concerns, per History.com.
During his presidency, Carter maintained a fascination with abstraction exploration.
In 1977, helium contributed a connection to NASA's Voyager spacecraft mission, and carried connected aureate records into heavy space, per the Daily Mail.
"We anticipation someday, having solved the problems we face, to articulation a assemblage of galactic civilizations," Carter wrote successful the message, which continues to question beyond our star strategy on with recordings of Earth's music, languages and images, according to USA Today.
