He states, “The pyramids and ley lines are on the power transfer lines of the natural Earth gravity Grid all over the world. The Earth Grid is comprised of the geometrical flow lines of gravity energy in the structure of the Earth itself.
“While the subject of the Earth Grid has been covered in a considerable number of publications, one point in the Grid, marked by a long and strange history at the eastern tip of Lake Ontario is worth special mention.”
David Childress also refers to the significant number of aircraft and ship incidents in the Lake Ontario Earth Grid area known as “The Other Bermuda Triangle” and “The Gateway to Oblivion on the eastern end of Lake Ontario.”
Clark referred to a project started in 1950 by the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada and the United States Army to investigate the magnetic anomalies and possible magnetic utility of this area. Officials call it “Project Magnet.” Was it top secret? Perhaps.
Project Magnet was the first official government research program involving the Earth Grid System. Wilbert Smith, a Canadian communications engineer for the Department of Transportation, directed the project. Smith and a team of scientists did find something. However, as Richard Clark explained, “Project Magnet was terminated.”
Wilbert Smith was born in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1910. According to journalist Paul McManus in an article entitled “Project Magnet,” “Smith graduated from the University of British Columbia, with degrees in electrical engineering and worked as the chief engineer for radio station CJOR in Vancouver. By 1939 Smith was working for the federal Department of Transportation designing Canada’s wartime monitoring systems.”
McManus added, “In 1950 Smith attended a North America Radio Broadcast Association conference in Washington, DC, where he became further convinced of the existence of UFO’s, and that they used magnetic forces to operate.”
Smith described what happened at the conference. “In 1950 I was attending a rather slow-moving broadcasting conference in Washington, DC, and having some free time on my hands, I circulated around asking a few questions about flying saucers, which stirred up a hornet’s nest. I found that the United States government had a highly classified project set up to study them, so I reasoned that with so much smoke maybe I should look for the fire.”
Upon his return to Ottawa, Smith met with Dr. Omond Solandt, chairman of the Canadian Defence Research Board. Solandt agreed to provide laboratory space, equipment, and personnel for research into geo-magnetism.
McManus stated, “In his project proposal of November 21, 1950, Smith outlined seven areas of geo-magnetic research. UFO research was not mentioned. Commander C.P. Edwards, Deputy Minister of Transport for Air Services, accepted the proposal. The project, named Magnet, was department classified, as there was a potential to create new technologies with unknown potential.”
By 1953 Project Magnet moved into the Department of Transport facilities at Shirley’s Bay, just upstream of Ottawa, on the Ottawa River. Some of his research equipment included a magnetometer, a gamma-ray detector, a powerful radio receiver, and a gravimeter, in order to measure gravity fields in the atmosphere.
Wilbert Smith described Project Magnet in these terms. “Project Magnet was authorized in December 1950, following my request to the Canadian department of Transport for permission to make use of the Departments’ laboratory and field facilities in a study of unidentified flying objects and physical principals which might appear to be involved.”
In an article entitled “We are Not Alone,” Wilbert Smith truly described his beliefs and findings. “Our universe is a very large place. The universe is also incredibly old. Maybe the universe doesn’t even have an age, that it is eternal and ever passing through the cycle of energy to matter and matter to energy.
“It is only reasonable to speculate that somewhere else in the vastness of space and the eternity of time, other intelligent life could have blossomed forth. Since we have made such rapid progress toward space travel in such a short time, a differential of only a few hundred or at the most a few thousand years between the development on some other planet and ours could easily have resulted in a race capable of doing right now what we plan to do in the future. In fact, intelligent races might even set about accelerating environmental conditions to their liking, seeding and stocking planets with appropriate life forms, and watching over them as they develop.”
Smith then addressed the UFO sightings.
“Thousands of people have seen lights and apparently solid objects in the sky that behaved as no light or object normally seen in the sky ought to behave. Thousands have seen these objects under circumstances, which enabled them to say definitely what they were not, even though they were not able to say what they were. Reliable photographs and movies have been taken, and bits of ‘hardware’ collected which cannot be explained away without challenging the integrity of a great many cases, and there is quite a bit of evidence of physical contact with these strange craft.”
Smith summarized by stating, “There is virtually no doubt that alien craft are visiting this Earth, and that the beings who operate them are very much like us, probably our distant relatives.”
By 1953 the press became suspicious of Smith’s work. Word leaked out that he and his team were doing UFO research. Questions were soon asked of the Department of Transport. Paul McManus stated, “Denials were made, but it became obvious that something unusual was under way.
On August 8, 1954, “contact” was made at 3:01 p.m. The gravimeter results, recorded on graph paper, showed a very large and unexplainable deflection and the researchers rushed outside to have a look. All they saw was dense cloud cover.
Two days later the Department of Transport issued a press release admitting they had been performing UFO research for three-and-a-half years.
Smith stated what happened next. “When the Project Magnet report was made and permission sought to extend the scope of the investigations through federal support, the decision was finally made in 1954 that this would not be advisable in the face of the publicity from which the whole project had suffered.”
The conclusions reached by Project Magnet and contained in the official report were based on rigid statistical analysis of sightings and were as follows:
There is a 91 percent probability that at least some of the sightings were of real objects of unknown origin.
There is about a 60 percent probability that these objects are alien vehicles.
In 1961 Smith was involved in an interview with television station CJOH. During the session he was asked if he believed that flying saucers were real.
Smith replied, “Yes. I am convinced that they are just as real and tangible as most things we deal with in our everyday lives.”
“Next question, Have you, yourself, actually handled any material believed to be from a flying saucer?”
Smith, “If by that, you mean material substance showing evidence of fabrication through intelligent effort and not originating on this planet, I have.”
During the interview Smith never used the word UFO. He knew from the very beginning that the phenomena he was studying and tracking was extraterrestrial.
According to Wilbert’s son, Jim Smith, just prior to his father’s death in 1962 his father called him in, and told Jim that he had in fact seen the alien bodies from a crash, and had been shown the crashed remains of a flying saucer outside Washington D.C while conducting the official Canadian investigation.
