Comments by "jim oberg" (@jimoberg3326) on "Jimmy Carter Actually Filed a UFO Report with NASA Before Becoming President" video.

  1. Carter’s report is very illustrative of why ‘ufology’ gets no respect from real scientists. The UFO industry unanimously made zero effort to verify even the most basic data on the years-afterward report, like date/time and location and additional witnesses, simple context info critical to any genuine investigation. This fundamental flaw of omission in their approach may have been based on their appreciation of the publicity value of the report, too valuable to risk losing if it turned out there was prosaic explanation. When the actual location/date was tracked down by Robert Sheaffer, a number of ‘classic’ stimuli for UFO reports became visible. The main one was that at that actual place and time, and in the direction Carter reported looking, NASA was conducting a barium-cloud science launch that created a bright weird cloud in the sky — it was all over the local papers the following morning. When you note that the UFO industry and exploitative internet blogs continue to conceal that suggestive ‘coincidence’ [thoroughly documented], you know all you need to about their intellectual integrity. http://badufos.blogspot.com/2017/01/jimmy-carters-ufo-sighting-was-it-venus.html
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  2. Well, if you check on-line report databases for that actual date, several people in the same viewing area filed reports from the same time that evening. Triangulation of their reported viewing directions from scattered locations shows the object was far to the southwest, just where the NASA rocket was flying. http://thecid.com/ufo/chrono/chrono/1969.htm 6 January 1969 18:30 - Auburndale, Florida, USA - One object was observed by three witnesses. 153 Keel, John A. UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse; 208 Huyghe, Patrick Special Report on 1968 Cases; 305 Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980 6 January 1969 18:30 - Spartanburg Sw, South Carolina, USA - Nocturnal lights were observed by a male witness (Beliste). 305; 676 Hatch, Larry U computer database Author, Redwood City, 2002 6 January 1969 19:00 - Greenwood, South Carolina, USA - More than two objects were observed by a male witness. 153; 208; 305 more: http://badufos.blogspot.com/2017/01/jimmy-carters-ufo-sighting-was-it-venus.html
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  3. He actually saw a NASA experiment. Based on a more accurate determination of where Carter was, and the date, a very suggestive 'hit' can be made by a documented NASA barium cloud rocket launched at that time and reported in local newspapers the next day. It's fair to point out that UFO promoters have used this story for decades without ANY of them uncovering the original report's errors in place and date OR the remarkable coincidence of the sighting with a 'classic' pseudo-UFO stimulus. Tut tut. http://badufos.blogspot.com/2017/01/jimmy-carters-ufo-sighting-was-it-venus.html
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  4. Carter's story appears connected with a NASA-launched barium-cloud experiment reported in the next day's local papers. http://badufos.blogspot.com/2017/01/jimmy-carters-ufo-sighting-was-it-venus.html
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