What U.S. Presidents Saw, and What They Were Allowed to Say About UFOs

On an evening in October 1969, while he was governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter stood with a group of guests at a club in Leary and saw a bright object changing color in the distance, holding its position before moving away. Four years later, he filled out a report form from the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, signing it on September 18, 1973. The National Archives confirms that the full report is held in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta.

Carter was not a stranger calling in a story from a bar. He was a naval officer who had studied nuclear physics, then became governor and president of the United States. He recorded the date, time, place, number of witnesses, and what the object looked like. A future president had seen something he could not identify, written it down, and left his name on the page.