Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 10 1131-10-p028

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‘Project MagnetThis project was a study of UFOs carried out by the Department of Transport (DOT) in Canada in the carly 1950s. It was set up in December 1950 under the direction of Wilbert B. smiTH, then senior radio engi- neer, Broadcast and Measurements Section. The project was quite small; it used facilities of DOT, with assistance from other government departments, in- cluding the Defense Research Board (DRB) and the Na- tional Research Council (NRC). The project was an out- Browth of work...