Editing Jimmy Carter (section)

=== Interests, friendships and hobbies ===
Carter's hobbies included painting,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2017/06/27/4532-jimmy-carter-painting-brings-over-half-million-dollars-at-auction|title=Jimmy Carter Painting Brings Over Half Million Dollars At Auction|date=June 27, 2017|access-date=September 7, 2021|archive-date=September 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907184128/https://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2017/06/27/4532-jimmy-carter-painting-brings-over-half-million-dollars-at-auction|url-status=live}}</ref> [[fly fishing]], woodworking, cycling, tennis, and skiing.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/carter-bio.html |title=Jimmy Carter – Biographical |publisher=The Nobel Foundation |access-date=December 28, 2014 |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215182218/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/carter-bio.html |url-status=live}}</ref> He also had an interest in poetry, particularly the works of [[Dylan Thomas]].<ref name="Thomas">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15661342 |title=Jimmy Carter to welcome visitors to Dylan Thomas house |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=November 9, 2011 |access-date=November 11, 2015 |archive-date=September 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917030101/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15661342 |url-status=live}}</ref> During a state visit to the UK in 1977, Carter suggested that Thomas should have a memorial in [[Poets' Corner]] at [[Westminster Abbey]];<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20068169,00.html |title=Jimmy Carter's Crusade for Dylan Thomas Wins a Supporter—his Grateful Widow, Caitlin |website=People |first=M.J. |last=Wilson |date=June 27, 1977 |access-date=November 11, 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222125301/https://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20068169,00.html}}</ref> this came to fruition in 1982.<ref name="Thomas" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/dylan-thomas |title=Dylan Thomas |website=Westminster Abbey |publisher=The Dean and Chapter of Westminster |year=2015 |access-date=November 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222105450/https://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/dylan-thomas |archive-date=December 22, 2015}}</ref> In 1994, Carter published a book of poetry, ''Always a Reckoning and Other Poems,'' illustrated by his granddaughter Sarah Chuldenko.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All About Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter's Children and Grandchildren |url=https://people.com/politics/all-about-jimmy-carter-rosalynn-carter-children-grandchildren/ |access-date=January 4, 2025 |website=People |language=en}}</ref>

Carter was a personal friend of [[Elvis Presley]], whom he and Rosalynn met on June 30, 1973.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elvis Presley and Politics |url=https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/15/Elvis-Presley-and-Politics/ |website=Neatorama |date=July 15, 2015 |access-date=February 20, 2018 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705121127/https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/15/Elvis-Presley-and-Politics/ |url-status=live}}</ref> They remained in contact by telephone two months before Presley's sudden death in August 1977. According to Carter, Presley was almost incoherent because of barbiturates; although he phoned the White House several more times, that was the last time they spoke.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Takes: Elvis Presley on the Line |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/takes-elvis-presley-on-the-line |magazine=The New Yorker |date=August 16, 2011 |author=Erin Overbey |author-link=Erin Overbey |access-date=February 20, 2018 |archive-date=February 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212448/https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/takes-elvis-presley-on-the-line |url-status=live}}</ref> The day after Presley's death, Carter issued a statement and said Presley had "changed the face of American popular culture".<ref>{{cite web |title=Statement by the President on the Death of Elvis Presley |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7969/ |website=The American Presidency Project |last1=Peters |first1=Gerhard |last2=Woolley |first2=John T. |access-date=February 20, 2018 |archive-date=November 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101190121/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7969%2F |url-status=live}}</ref>

Carter filed a report with both the International UFO Bureau and the [[National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Thomas|last=O'Toole|title=UFO Over Georgia? Jimmy Logged One|date=April 30, 1977|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/04/30/ufo-over-georgia-jimmy-logged-one/080ef1c3-6ff3-41a9-a1e4-a37c54b5cbca/|access-date=October 1, 2021|archive-date=November 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109013122/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/04/30/ufo-over-georgia-jimmy-logged-one/080ef1c3-6ff3-41a9-a1e4-a37c54b5cbca/|url-status=live}}</ref> saying that [[Jimmy Carter UFO incident|he saw an unidentified flying object]] in October 1969.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ed|last=Kilgore|title=Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO on This Day in 1973|date=September 18, 2019|work=New York|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/jimmy-carter-saw-a-ufo-on-this-day-in-1973.html|access-date=October 1, 2021|archive-date=October 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001025315/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/jimmy-carter-saw-a-ufo-on-this-day-in-1973.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nicap.org/waves/CarterSightingRptOct1969.pdf|title=Official report by Carter to the International UFO Bureau|access-date=September 17, 2021|archive-date=September 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913190524/https://www.nicap.org/waves/CarterSightingRptOct1969.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Joseph|last=Egelhof|title=Jimmy Carter's UFO|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86289659/|access-date=October 1, 2021|work=Boston Evening Globe|page=15|date=November 11, 1977|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|archive-date=March 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321155347/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86289659/the-boston-globe/|url-status=live}}</ref> Records showed that Carter got the date wrong, and it was in fact on January 6, 1969. In 2016, a former Air Force scientist found old government reports about a scientific project that on that date launched a barium cloud to examine the upper atmosphere. It would have appeared in the sky at an elevation of 33 degrees, which is almost exactly what Carter had speculated.{{sfn|Alter|2020|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=QwAAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA201 201–202]}}