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Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

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Re: Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

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I want the aliens to be real so much. But even if it doesn't turn out to be aliens, these sorts of events present an opportunity to study and explore as-of-yet unexplored or poorly understood phenomenon, which can be equally exciting. In particular, this example seems to be explained as follows:

> In 2020, Justus completed an extensive study of the high-altitude barium release clouds, concluding that what Carter saw was "totally consistent" with what was launched that evening from Eglin AFB.[13] Justus described several physical aspects supporting consistency, and submitted a copy of the report for archival at the Jimmy Carter Library.

And if we look up "Barium Tracer Cloud" on YouTube we can see images of what Jimmy Carter might've seen at the time, which has both a mundane explanation while being exceptionally magical in its own way.

There's also additional images in the report PDF [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUAqsxYJtHc

[1] https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/What_Jimmy_Car...

Re: Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

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I want the aliens to be real so much. But even if it doesn't turn out to be aliens, these sorts of events present an opportunity to study and explore as-of-yet unexplored or poorly understood phenomenon, which can be equally exciting. In particular, this example seems to be explained as follows: > In 2020, Justus completed an extensive study of the high-altitude barium release clouds, concluding that what Carter saw…

> I want the aliens to be real so much. But even if it doesn't turn out to be aliens, these sorts of events present an opportunity to study and explore as-of-yet unexplored or poorly understood phenomenon, which can be equally exciting.

One of the main reasons why the UFO crowd discredits itself is the way that the crazies in the community are overrepresented, and look at "this flying object is not identified" and automatically jump to the conclusion that not knowing something somehow means it definitely must support an outlandish mythology.

Re: Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

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Too bad the aliens stopped visiting so prominently the moment camera phones became ubiquitous.

I have tried to photograph an aeroplane and also the moon with my iPhone 12 Max. The image quality is dismal.

You need one of those digital cameras that swap in a pre stored high resolution image of the moon .. they're magic!

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo...

Re: Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

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post #3

Too bad the aliens stopped visiting so prominently the moment camera phones became ubiquitous.

I keep hearing folks say this in a way that grossly overestimates the capabilities of most modern camera phones. I have to ask, just how clearly does your phone take images of airliners, drones, high-altitude balloons, and satellites? Don't get me wrong, I'm not into claims of extraterrestrial visitations, but I am annoyed by the habits of lazy armchair skeptics, whose snark does more to distance true believers from rationalism than they may realize.

Re: Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

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Too bad the aliens stopped visiting so prominently the moment camera phones became ubiquitous.

I keep hearing folks say this in a way that grossly overestimates the capabilities of most modern camera phones. I have to ask, just how clearly does your phone take images of airliners, drones, high-altitude balloons, and satellites? Don't get me wrong, I'm not into claims of extraterrestrial visitations, but I am annoyed by the habits of lazy armchair skeptics, whose snark does more to distance true believers from…

More clearly than not taking a video of it. It'll show a bright dot, but a video will at least show a bright dot zooming unnaturally along the sky.
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