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Canada shuts down Project Magnet

Name: Canada shuts down Project Magnet
Start: 1954
Location: Ottawa, Canada

When: 1954
Where: Ottawa, Canada
Sources: 1 public source

Wilbert Smith, the Department of Transport engineer who ran Project Magnet Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Canada's Department of Transport ended Project Magnet, radio engineer Wilbert Smith's 1950-54 study of whether UFOs used magnetic propulsion. Smith's experiments were inconclusive, and his public belief that UFOs were extraterrestrial had drawn bad publicity.

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OtherUFOs in Canada (opens in a new tab)The Canadian Encyclopedia / 2020-10-20

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