Jimmy Carter once saw a UFO ? but had this to say about aliens on Earth

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, developed a reputation for folksy candor about issues that politicians often shy away from — including acknowledging that he once personally observed a UFO, though he remained a skeptic about the possibility that aliens had landed on Earth.

“I saw an unidentified flying object,” Carter told GQ magazine in 2005, recounting a story he first publicly shared in the early 1970s before he became Georgia’s governor and then US president.

“I’ve never believed that it came from Mars. I know enough physics to know that you can’t have vehicles that are tangible in nature flying from Mars, looking around, and then flying back. But I saw an object one night when I was preparing to give a speech to a Lions Club,” he said.