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1954
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I GANADA PIJNS­
FLYING SAUCER
0 8 SERVATORY
Not Optical Illusions,
Top Experts Hold
OTTAWA, Nov. 12 lCTPSl­
Establlshment of a~nadian
government observatory for fly.
Ing sauc ers, the first In the world,
has been announced here.
"There is a very high deg-ree of
probability that flying saucers
are real objects, and a 60 per
cent probability that they are
alien vehicles," Wilbert B. Smith.
scientist appointed to supervise
the new saucer sighting station,
told reporters.
He said the federal transport
department, in which he has
charge of the telecommunications
broadcast and measurement sec­
tion, receives constant reports of
sighting of flying saucers. The
total number; he said, is classi­
fied as restricted information.
"The optical illusion explana­
tion is lovely," he said, "but in
every sighting there is always
some factor that precludes this
explanation. We have decided ·to
try to learn just what they are."
Canada's sighting station will
be at Shirley bay, OD the Ottawa
river 10 miles west of here. Smith
said any one Iocaion in Canada
is sure to have at least one saucer
sighting a year. Associated with
Smith In the project, "which is
under the transport department
and the defense research board,
will be a theoretical physicist and
a
specialist
in gravitational
studies.
A 24-hour watch will be kept
for saucers. Specially built equip­
ment Is wired to alarro bells. The
equipment includes an iono­
spheric reactor, electronic de­
vices for measurement of sounds,
a gamma ray detector, a gravi­
meter, and other paraphernalia,
Jet planes may be sent up from
the air force field near Ottawa
to Investigate any saucers re­
ported by the station.
Defense resea.rcb
scientista
here never have pooh-poohed flv­
ing saucers, which have been pub­
licly reported in nightmarish
shapes and forms over .Canadian
cities. some of them have been
described as multicolored cigar
, figurations.
Frequency of t he saucer sight­
ings h&.6 been noted here to rise
With the increase in prox1mity
of the planet Mars to the earth.
Smith said he does l'ioC ,aie'UUt
the possV>l*ty that the saucers
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N. Y. Compass
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