Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, once acknowledged that he personally observed a UFO, though he remained a skeptic about the possibility that aliens had landed on Earth.

A lot of people don't know this, but the late former president Jimmy Carter saw a color-changing U.F.O. in Georgia back in 1969.

( NewsNation) — Former President Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, left behind a unique legacy of openness about UFO sightings, including his own encounter in 1969, and a message to potential alien civilizations that continue to travel through space.