Jimmy Carter goes X-Files

AlterNet
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 Lakshmi Chaudhry
December 16, 2005

I love Jimmy Carter, but think he needs to stop strolling down memory lane quite so much:

"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." [NYDN via Gawker]
There's more about spotting a UFO that I'll leave you to investigate.
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