Wilbert Smith to Vancouver Area UFO Club, March 14, 1961
The new book by Grant Cameron on the study of UFOs by the Canadian Government from 1950-1954. Following is an edited version of a speech given at short notice to the Vancouver Area UFO Club, March 14, 1961. It was entitled "What we are doing in Ottawa." May I point out that the Project Magnet I was associated with, which received much publicity, was not an official Government project. It was a project that I talked the Deputy Minister into letting me carry out, making use of the extensive field organization of the Department of Transport. No funds were spent on it and we merely had access to the very large field organization and opened a number of files. Unfortunately the gentlemen of the press climbed on this and made a big deal out of it…However we carried the project through officially for about four or five years and then went underground because of press interference… However we had been following up every lead we could find. Some of the leads led to a dead end. We f...