What Do UFOs, Psychics & the White House Have in Common?

Prez Carter Ponders the Paranormal

from The New York Daily News

As President, Jimmy Carter may not have consulted an astrologer to decide the details of his schedule - á la Nancy Reagan directing her husband's busy days.

But Ronald Reagan's predecessor did once employ a woman in a trance to locate a downed government plane in Africa.

"We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic. A twin-engine plane. Small plane. And we couldn't find it," the 81-year-old 39th President reveals to GQ magazine's Wil S. Hylton. "So we oriented satellites that were going around the Earth every 90 minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it."

Carter continues: "The director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California who claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went into a trance and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellite over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane."

Digging deeper into his personal X-Files, Carter claims he once sighted a UFO.

"I've never believed that it came from Mars...But I saw an object one night when I was preparing to give a speech to a Lions Club," Carter says. "There were about 25 of us men standing around...And all of a sudden, one of the men looked up and said, 'Look, over in the west.' And there was a bright light in the sky...[I]t got closer and closer to us. And then it stopped, I don't know how far away, but it stopped beyond the pine trees. And all of a sudden it changed color to blue, and then it changed to red, then back to white. And we were trying to figure out what in the world it could be, and then it receded into the distance."

The truth is out there.