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Project Magnet sets up a UFO observatory at Shirleys Bay, Ontario

When: Oct 1952
Where: Shirleys Bay, Canada
Sources: 1 public source

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

Canadian Department of Transport engineer Wilbert Smith, head of Project Magnet, set up an observatory at Shirleys Bay near Ottawa to measure magnetic or radio disturbances he expected UFOs to cause. Smith believed the craft were probably extraterrestrial; the project was shut down in 1954.

Sources

OfficialShirley's Bay, Ontario, Project Magnet, 1952 (Canada's UFOs: The Search for the Unknown) (opens in a new tab)Library and Archives Canada (archived copy via Internet Archive)

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