AudioBlog: NASA and the UFO Problem

According to the sighting report forms (pages 2 and 4 of pdf)
filled out by Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter for the National
Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena and the International
UFO Bureau on September 18, 1973, he and 10-12 other men observed a
UFO he described as a light that was “at one time, as bright as the
moon” for 10-12 minutes in Leary, Georgia. According to the form,
they were outside waiting for a 7:30 p.m. Lions Club meeting to
start. During Carter’s presidential campaign in 1976, a reporter
from the National Enquirer asked him if he would release all
the information the government had on UFOs if he was elected. He is
quoted in the June 8, 1976 edition of the Enquirer as saying
“If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this
country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the
scientists. I’m convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one.”
When he was elected, the White House began receiving letters from
UFO enthusiasts who wanted to know when he was going to make good
on his promise. One of these is included in the article by Philip
J. Klass, headlined “NASA, the White House, and UFOs” published in
the Spring/Summer 1978 Skeptical Inquirer: Read more