What Was The Jimmy Carter UFO Incident?

The Jimmy Carter UFO incident is the popular name given to the sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object by the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter. It has nothing whatsoever to do with alien abductions or Area 51. In 1973 the International UFO Bureau from that is in Oklahoma City in Oklahoma State asked him to file a report about the sighting which Jimmy Carter did in the September of 1973 when he was Governor of Georgia.

On the 6th of January in the year 1969, when Carter was still a contender for the post of Governor, he along with ten to twelve other people witnessed a strange object located near the horizon, about 30 degrees above, and it was towards the west of where he was standing. An interesting fact is that Jimmy carter promised as a part of his campaign that he would make information related the UFOs open to the public but was in a way forced to go back on this after being elected due to defence implications.