" the White House of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who himself has publicly reported a 1969 Close Encounter of the First Kind with a UFO..."

I seem to remember Jimmy having an encounter with a white rabbit at about the same time. It had large teeth and tried to board his canoe. Unlike many at the time I didn't doubt his sanity--I grew up on Monty Python.

Regards, Vince

Edit: My apologies: the White Rabbit episode occured several years later while he was President.