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8 events here, 1950 to 2025, in date order.
Canadian Department of Transport radio engineer Wilbert Smith sent a Top Secret memo proposing geomagnetic research tied to flying saucers. It relays what U.S. contacts reportedly told him, including that saucers were the most highly classified U.S. subject. The proposal led to Project Magnet.
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.
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.
Canada's National Research Council began collecting UFO sighting reports in 1968, taking the job from the Department of National Defence, which handed over reports dating from 1965. The NRC kept collecting until August 1995; the records are now at Library and Archives Canada.
Psychologist Nicholas Spanos and colleagues at Carleton University reported in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology that UFO reporters scored no higher on psychopathology tests than comparison groups, but that intense experiences were more often sleep-related.
Library and Archives Canada launched 'Canada's UFOs: The Search for the Unknown', an online collection of digitized UFO files from the Departments of Transport and National Defence, the RCMP and the National Research Council, covering reports from 1947 to the early 1980s.
The Office of Canada's Chief Science Advisor began a review of how the federal government handles public UAP reports, its first such look in decades. Its 2025 report recommended naming a federal body to collect, investigate and publish UAP data.
The Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada published its Sky Canada Project report on how public UAP reports are handled. It recommended naming a lead federal agency, creating a service to collect and publish analyses, and encouraging pilots to report without stigma.
