Fascinating little tidbit from NPR regarding Jimmy Carter’s take on UFOs.

Here is a link to the brief article, published today, Jan. 11, 2025, and an excerpt, bold and in brackets:

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5248959/opinion-when-jimmy-carter-and-i-spoke-about-ufos

[“I have a story I can tell now about an off-the-record conversation I once had with the late Jimmy Carter, about one of the great human controversies: UFOs.

“This is totally off-the-record, I assured Mr. Carter. ‘But you were president for four years. You had access to all the national security intelligence. Could these people be right? Mr. President, is there anything we should know?’ “

… The president chuckled and replied, ‘No. But remember,’ he added, ‘a UFO is simply something we haven’t identified. There are dozens of unexplained incursions of our airspace every year. They’re usually some experiment. You’d be surprised,” he said, “how often the Navy doesn’t know what the Air Force is up to, and so forth.’

” ‘ So based on what you’ve seen,” I ventured, “you have no reason to think there’s life… out there?’ “

” ‘I don’t know that,” Mr. Carter gently corrected me. “But if there is, it has nothing to do with UFOs. If there’s some other civilization out there, I doubt they’d send big, bulky airships. They’d probably just keep watch and leave us alone.’ “]

Sounds like sage wisdom, and I offer it as further evidence supporting the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs: that is, the UFOs are top-secret Pentagon tech, not E.T.

And Re: The Navy not always being aware of what the Air Force is doing, remember the “tic tac”, where, in 2004, U.S. Navy pilots encountered a flying object exhibiting extraordinary performance characteristics over a military training range?

Just saying …