Project Magnet was approved by the Canadian government December 2, 1950, led by Wilbert Brockhouse Smith — senior radio engineer, Transport Canada. Smith’s classified November 21, 1950 memo: “We believe that we are on the track of something which may well prove to be the introduction to a new technology. The existence of a different technology is borne out by investigations being carried on in relation to flying saucers.” Before starting the project, Smith contacted the Canadian Embassy in Washington and arranged an interview with Dr. Robert Sarbacher — US Defence Department Research and Development Board consultant. Sarbacher confirmed: (1) The saucers existed. (2) “The matter was the most highly classified subject in the US.” This was 1950 — before MJ-12 documents appeared, before Roswell was public knowledge. An independent Canadian government engineer independently confirmed the US crash retrieval program’s existence through the Defence R&D Board. Smith’s June 1952 preliminary report concluded UAPs “almost certainly manipulated magnetism for flight” — a direct precursor to what Buhler/Pais/Ning Li research now confirms experimentally. THE SUPPRESSION EVENT: August 8, 1954 — Project Magnet’s instruments at Shirley’s Bay observatory near Ottawa recorded a “substantial gravimetric variation.” The day was overcast — no visual confirmation. Two days later, Transport Canada officially shut down Project Magnet following “unwanted publicity.” A genuine anomalous gravimetric detection → programme terminated within 48 hours. Project Second Storey (1952-1954, Defence Research Board) was the parallel debunking apparatus — concluded UAP “did not lend itself to scientific investigation.” Classic pattern: one researcher gets results, a debunking committee is set up alongside it. Library and Archives Canada holds 9,500 digitized documents from 1947-1980s across DND, Transport, NRC, and RCMP.