Canada UFO Sighting (1950-1954) — AARO Records (D213P26)
A first saucer wave case from Canada. Project Magnet, run by engineer Wilbert B.
Background
On 1950-1954, in Canada, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) recorded the unidentified-phenomenon case described below. The case is preserved in AARO’s 2024-2025 publications and consolidated annual reports to Congress, declassified or released in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Department of Defense reporting cycles.
One of the first wave of “flying saucer” reports that swept the united states after the kenneth arnold sighting of june 1947 and the roswell incident of july 1947.
The case appears in materials produced or curated by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
What the document records
Project Magnet, run by engineer Wilbert B. Smith, assessed that UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin and operated using magnetism. Smith claimed personal telepathic contact with extraterrestrials and received a piece of a UFO from the USAF in 1952 for study, composed of magnesium orthosilicate. The project was closed due to lack of definitive results.
Verbatim from the file
“Smith assessed that UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin and that they flew by magnetism.”
Type of case
The case is a visual sighting reported by ground or air observers.
Status
AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded that they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include commercial drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.