Government / Military

Wilbert B. Smith

1950-01-01year known, day not recorded

Senior radio engineer with Canada's Department of Transport; ran the Canadian government's official "Project Magnet" UFO investigation starting in 1950, and claimed a U.S. contact had confirmed flying saucers were genuine and among the most classified topics in the U.S. government.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "flying saucer", "ufo". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

None of this entity's 2 connections has a source you can open. 1 carries no citation at all.

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This entity's name appears in the 1 document below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I

named on a page we have read · p. 26

…net (1950-1954) was run by Department of Transport engineer Wilbert B. Smith. Smith assessed that UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin a…

2 connections

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← Morris K. Jessup names a source we do not hold

1950s antigravity-propulsion milieu

Wikipedia: Morris K. Jessup
→ NICAP nothing behind it

his Project Magnet findings covered in early UFO research