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Canada's Project Second Storey

Name: Canada's Project Second Storey
Start: 1952
Location: Ottawa, Canada

When: 1952
Where: Ottawa, Canada
Sources: 2 public sources

Astronomer Peter Millman, who chaired Canada's Project Second Storey committee NRAO/AUI/NSF, photo by Woodruff T. Sullivan III, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Canada's Defence Research Board set up Project Second Storey, an advisory committee on flying saucer reports chaired by Dominion Observatory astronomer Peter Millman, which ran from 1952 to 1954. It did not investigate sightings itself but worked on a standard reporting form.

Sources

FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956
OtherUFOs in Canada (Matthew Hayes) (opens in a new tab)The Canadian Encyclopedia / 2020-10-20

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