SNOWBALL
11-13-2006, 06:30 PM
This is from an interview with former president Jimmy Carter. Link (http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/493rjkhn.asp)
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GQ: One of the promises you made in 1976 was that if you were elected, you would look into the [UFO] reports from Roswell and see if there had been any cover-ups. Did you look into that?
Carter: Well, in a way. I became more aware of what our intelligence services were doing. There was only one instance that I'll talk about now. We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic--a twin-engine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. And so we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every ninety minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it. So the director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went in a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellites over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane.
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I couldn't find any more info on this case. My friend was using it as an argument that psychic powers are real. Naturally, I disagreed. I think there has to be at least one totally proven case that psychic abilities have been possessed by at least one person in human history BEFORE you can try to use paranormal explanations for someone that maybe made a lucky guess or just flat out hustled you or lied to you.
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GQ: One of the promises you made in 1976 was that if you were elected, you would look into the [UFO] reports from Roswell and see if there had been any cover-ups. Did you look into that?
Carter: Well, in a way. I became more aware of what our intelligence services were doing. There was only one instance that I'll talk about now. We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic--a twin-engine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. And so we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every ninety minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it. So the director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went in a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellites over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane.
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I couldn't find any more info on this case. My friend was using it as an argument that psychic powers are real. Naturally, I disagreed. I think there has to be at least one totally proven case that psychic abilities have been possessed by at least one person in human history BEFORE you can try to use paranormal explanations for someone that maybe made a lucky guess or just flat out hustled you or lied to you.