Former President Carter Details Psychic Encounter

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The federal government recently released a report on its Operation Stargate, a project designed to use psychics and remote viewing techniques as an aid in intelligence gathering.

A recent series of comments by Jimmy Carter not only confirms the involvement of psychics in intelligence operations, but points out a what may be a developing pattern of American Presidents admitting their interest in strange and bizarre areas. (See our Nebula section for details of Bill Clinton's recent revelation that he has a keen interest in the Roswell incident.)

While speaking before a group of college students, Carter was asked if he knew about the existence of aliens or alien spacecraft. (Carter made a campaign promise to declassify all U.S. government files on UFOs, but never followed through on that pledge, and did not explain his lapse while in office.)

"I never knew of any instance where it was proven that any sort of vehicle had come from outer space to our country and either lived here or left," said Carter, who was President from 1977 to 1981. He did, however, admit that U.S. military and security agencies conduct active investigations and prepare internal reports of UFOs.

He went on to discuss an incident in which a "special U.S. plane" (presumably a spy plane) had crashed, and a frantic effort to locate the plane yielded no results. Carter said the U.S. knew the plane had crashed in Zaire, Africa, but no one knew exactly where.

Satellite searches yielded no trace of the plane's wreckage, and in an apparent last-ditch effort to locate it, the Central Intelligence Agency called in a California woman who claimed to have psychic powers.

"I have to say that without my knowledge, the head of the CIA asked her to come in," Carter said. "She went into a trance. And while she was in the trance, she gave some latitude and longitude figures. We focused our satellite cameras on that point and the plane was there."

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