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BIO: William Carter was born in Athens, Georgia, on January 24, 1974. In 1994, he joined the Marine Corps and attended boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina. After boot camp, he proceeded to Marine Combat Training (MCT) at Camp Geiger in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Upon completing MCT, he was transferred a few miles down the road to Camp Johnson, also in Jacksonville, North Carolina, for Food Service School. Once he completed Food Service School, he was reassigned to Parris Island as permanent personnel. While stationed there, he attended Range Coaching School to train new recruits in the use of the M16-A2 service rifle. He remained there for the rest of his enlistment until receiving an honorable discharge in 1998.
Upon being placed on terminal leave, he enrolled in Northeast Alabama Community College in Rainsville, Alabama, in 1998. Pursuing a general studies program, he earned an Associate in Science degree in 2000. Following graduation, he transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he studied for a year.
From 2003 to 2006, he enlisted in the Alabama National Guard and soon after enrolled at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. While a senior at Jacksonville State, his National Guard unit was activated for Operation Enduring Freedom. The unit was sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, for military police school, and after graduation, they were deployed to Germany. There, they performed garrison security and assisted in transporting suspected terrorists from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Like many service members during the war, he was subject to stop-loss orders. Upon returning home, his enlistment ended, but he had still not completed college.
After re-enlisting in the military for a third time from 2009 to 2012, in 2011, he completed a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Troy University.
However, in 2009, during a deployment with his military police unit to Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton, Florida, his past resurfaced in a way that profoundly affected his life. The unit had been sent to Eglin for two weeks of annual training in preparation for an upcoming deployment. Their official mission included garrison security and marijuana eradication. During this time, he visited a restricted radar facility known as Site C6 at Eglin Air Force Base.
A long-forgotten memory resurfaced during this visit. As a child in the late 1970s, he, along with his mother and sister, had witnessed a UFO on the ground in a field near their home in Georgia. Until his time at Eglin, this memory had been buried. The experience at the base led him to realize that not only were extraterrestrial encounters real, but that the government actively monitored them.
When I mentioned to my Russian co-worker, Sasha (in the construction shop at the Metropolitan Opera), that I was going to write about a 1989 UFO, occupant, and robot report from Voronezh that got the world’s attention thanks to a Tass article he said, “Oh, yeah, there were all kinds of crazy reports in the newspapers back then. We didn’t take them seriously.” He explained that because of glasnost (the opening up of Russia to the West and loosening of restrictions under Gorbachev), news companies felt free to report on UFOs and other paranormal subjects that they knew would sell papers. He said they called papers that carried such stories “yellow papers.” My knowledge of the case came from sensationalized narratives on UFO websites, but after actually taking the time to find the original newspaper reports, it seems that the story is the result of a combination of over-zealous UFO researchers, credulous reporters, and perhaps less than scrupulous editors taking advantage of the new political climate.
In the fall of 1978, there seems to have been a flap in the comune (municipality) of Torrita di Siena in the Tuscany region of Italy from September 13th to the 20th. This is mentioned by Maurizio Verga in his introduction to the 
The first two years of the 1970s seems to have been a slow period for UFO reports, if the 1970 and 1971 UFO Chronology hosted on the National Investigations Committee on Arial Phenomena website is any indication, with the 
New Jersey, as everyone in UFO world is aware, was ground zero for a full-on flap involving what most witnesses reported as mysterious drones. What’s noteworthy is that this same region was where residents panicked during Orson Welles’s radio production of The War of the Worlds in 1938. It’s also the area where there were two flaps in 1966, one in January and another in October, with the most dramatic reports centered around the Wanaque Reservoir. In this blog, we’ll focus on the January flap. At that time, several different investigators arrived on the scene, and as a result, there are several different versions of what happened.
On Saturday, January 11, I paid a visit to David Marler at the new facility in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, housing the contents of the National UFO Historical Records Center. The NUFOHRC is a recently formed non-profit organization, and the facility consists of two buildings provided by Rio Rancho Public Schools on the campus of the Martin Luther King Elementary School. In one of the buildings is a treasure trove of, well, UFO Historical Records, including the case files of the big three in twentieth century UFO investigation: the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, the Center for UFO Studies, and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. The APRO files had been in private hands since APRO ceased being active in 1988, and I was particularly eager to see those, as well as see the facility and offer congratulations to David. 