However, new information has come in showing that what Carter saw was, in fact, a rocket-launched barium cloud. Carl G. 'Jere' Justus, a former professor at Georgia Tech, used to work at Eglin AFB in Florida, where such rockets were launched. Checking the records, Justus found that there was indeed a space cloud launched at that time. Reports from other observers in the rregion at that same time pretty well clinch the identification as a space cloud. Interestingly, the calculated position of the cloud, as seen from Leary, GA, places it right next to the brilliant Venus!
However, new information has come in showing that what Carter saw was, in fact, a rocket-launched barium cloud. Carl G. 'Jere' Justus, a former professor at Georgia Tech, used to work at Eglin AFB in Florida, where such rockets were launched. Checking the records, Justus found that there was indeed a space cloud launched at that time. Reports from other observers in the rregion at that same time pretty well clinch the identification as a space cloud. Interestingly, the calculated position of the cloud, as seen from Leary, GA, places it right next to the brilliant Venus!
https://badufos.blogspot.com/2020/06/widespread-sightings-clinch-that-jimmy.html
Jimmy Carter wasn’t the first person to misidentify the planet Venus for a UFO and he won’t be the last. Get over it.