Little Hawk, I only did the follow-up on Carter as an example for the unreliability of (UFO) reports and I choose Carter for the same reasons as you did: he is well known. And of course I want to sow some seeds of doubts into some minds: 'If even Carter...'

There's one more point where I am in total agreement (excerpt for the wrong date of Carter's sighting) with what you write: Whether or not Carter saw the planet Venus in 1970 doesn't change what I saw in the late 60's one iota. No, it surely doesn't change a iota what you actually saw (that's not my point), but it changes my willingness to take your interpretation of what you saw as gospel.

Venus doesn't have to come close to Earth to be mistaken for a UFO.

In case someone want to read the old discussion, click here.

Wolfgang