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Wilbert Smith memorandum on 'Geo-Magnetics'
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA Canadian radio engineer's memo reporting what he had learned in Washington: that the subject was classified higher than the hydrogen bomb, that a small group under Vannevar Bush was studying it, and that the discs existed. It rests on what Smith was told by intermediaries. Speakers cite it as early foreign confirmation; it records hearsay carefully labelled as such.
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| Issuing body | Wilbert B. Smith, Department of Transport, Canada; classified Top Secret |
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| Date | |
| Kind | memo |
| Status | exists as a document; not retrieved |
| Where | https://www.nicap.org/docs/smithmemo.htm |
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UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” 21 February 2025
- 0:25:23 ▶
was the scientific adviser to the research and development board spearheaded by Vanavar Bush. around 1950, uh, Wilbert Smith met with Robert Sarbacher to talk about flying saucers because the Canadian government wanted to use sort of um kind of magnetic the earth's magnetic field
- 0:25:23 ▶ cited on the show
- 0:25:53 ▶
Bush. I can't tell you what they're from or what they're made of, but we know they're not made by humans. And so Wilbert Smith relayed that in a 1950 Department of Transportation Canada memo that was then uh reduced from top secret
- 0:25:53 ▶ cited on the show
- 0:28:28 ▶
And and so and then just to to add corroboration to the first thing you were mentioning with the Sarbacher Wilbert Smith connection, not only did
- 0:28:28 ▶ cited on the show
- 0:25:23 ▶
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- 0:25:23 UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” ▶
was the scientific adviser to the research and development board spearheaded by Vanavar Bush. around 1950, uh, Wilbert Smith met with Robert Sarbacher to talk about flying saucers because the Canadian government wanted to use sort of um kind of magnetic the earth's magnetic field
- 0:25:53 UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” ▶
Bush. I can't tell you what they're from or what they're made of, but we know they're not made by humans. And so Wilbert Smith relayed that in a 1950 Department of Transportation Canada memo that was then uh reduced from top secret
- 0:28:28 UAPGerb: “The New Area51 Is HERE in Utah!” ▶
And and so and then just to to add corroboration to the first thing you were mentioning with the Sarbacher Wilbert Smith connection, not only did
- Wilbert Smith memorandum on 'Geo-Magnetics'