Senior radio engineer at the Canadian Department of Transport. Founded Project Magnet (1950-1954), an early government-sanctioned UAP research effort, and authored the 1950 'Top Secret memorandum' citing high-level U.S. interest in the subject.
Wilbert B. Smith was a senior radio engineer for the Canadian Department of Transport who managed Project Magnet, an official Canadian government UAP study in the 1950s. He is famous for authoring a formerly classified 1950 memo indicating that the UFO matter was the most highly classified subject in the United States, rating higher even than the hydrogen bomb. Smith pioneered theoretical work on UAP propulsion through geomagnetism and gravity manipulation, driven by his high-level contacts in Washington. He claimed to have handled anomalous physical debris and communicated with extraterrestrial intelligences via contactees. He remains the foundational figure in the history of Canadian UAP investigations.