[mig39]

He was interviewed on the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, and they talked about the incident.

https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-105

This was the podcast referenced on the John Oliver show recently, when Oliver talked about Jimmy Carter's UFO incident.

They also had a bit of followup (decades later) on the latest Skeptics Guide episode.

The current thought is that he saw some aircraft from a nearby airbase.

[likeabbas]

There's strict protocols for aircraft flying near the president's aircraft. There's no way in hell the airbase would allow take off while the president is in the air and he wouldn't have been told about it.

[mig39]

He wasn't president at the time, and he wasn't in the air.