U.S. Special Project Linked to UFOs

From UFO Investigator June-Sept. 1963 Vol. 11, No.9
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Bulletin. NICAP has been informed by a high-level
Government source that very important UFO information
is classified ABOVE “Top Secret.” According to this
unimpeachable Source, this information is unavailable
even to many top ranking officers who do not have a
high-priority “Need To Know.”

A special U.S. program significantly linked to a
Canadian Government UFO investigation has just been
discovered by a NICAP technical advisor. Entitled
“Project Magnet,” this carefully unpublicized program
is a worldwide operation using specially equipped
Constellations, non-uniformed pilots and civilian
scientists.

(Project “Magnet” was the official name of the
Canadian government UFO research operation headed by
the late Wilbert Smith, a government scientist.)

Existence of the U.S. Project magnet was first
discovered by NICAP Advisor Robert C. Beck, former
Lockheed flight test engineer, now president of an
electronics and photographic company. Mr. Beck also
secured the following pictures.





Each of the project Super Constellations is equipped
with highly sensitive magnetometers to detect unusual
magnetic variations, not only irregularities from the
earth’s magnetic field, but also magnetic forces from
any sources above the earth. It was this later type of
magnetic interference which Wilbert Smith and his
associate engineers believed a result of sustained UFO
operations over certain areas.

One important result from the U.S. program has been
the discovery of peculiar magnetic forces from above
the Key-West Caribbean area. Though no connection has
been proved, this is the area where unexplained
interference with aircraft compasses was reported by
Navy flight leader shortly before his five-plane
formation vanished.

This case is now familiar to most NICAP members. One
day in late 1945, five Navy torpedo planes took off
from Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station, for navigation
practice over the Atlantic. The planes never returned.
A large Coast-Guard flying boat searching for the
missing aircraft also disappeared. No trace of the six
planes was ever found, despite a long search by Navy
carrier pilots and beach patrol.

During the fruitless navy investigation, it was
brought out that radio conversation between the flight
leader and another of the missing planes had been
heard, indicating that the compasses of all five
planes had ceased to function correctly. It was
suggested that this strange interference might have
kept the flight from finding its way back to Ft.
Lauderdale, though this did not explain how the planes
vanished.

Advisor Beck's report

On August 22, 1963, Advisor Beck, attending a
conference of electronic manufacturers at San
Francisco, noted a Super Constellation on an auxiliary
runway at the airport. Its tail bore the words
"Project Magnet" with the identification number
145925. Using his Lockheed background. (he had tested
Constellations) he managed to enter into a
conversation with the plane's three pilots.

"Does 'Project Magnet' signify the same type of
research by the Canadian Project Magnet?" he asked.

"Yes, it is closely related," one pilot told him.

When he boarded the plane, Beck was introduced to a
civilian scientist named Crow (first name not stated)
who was in charge of the research equipment.





The Constellation, stated Engineer Crow, was one of a
number equipped with highly sensitive magnetometers.
Technical comparisons with World war 11 typed are
omitted here, since even the WW11 equipment is still
classified as secret. The Project magnet field, said
Crow, was covering most of the globe, searching for
magnetic "anomalies" -usually variations.

During the discussions, Beck reported, it was obvious
that Crow and the pilots were aware that this project
was part of the overall search for UFO information.
Beck learned that Project magnet had a "cover story,"
like the famous U-2 spy-plane flights. (The U-2's,
prior to being forced to land in Russia, were
explained a high-altitude weather observation craft.)
The Project Magnet planes were supposed to search for
unknown errors in the earth's magnetic field, to
correct navigational charts.

While this undoubtedly is a by-product, it can hardly
explain such a large program. existing magnetic charts
are generally accurate enough for safe navigation, and
they are well supplemented by radio beacons, radar,
Loran (long-range guidance) and other aids.

In addition, Engineer Crow, disclosed that several of
our satellites are equipped with special magnetometers
which, like the Project Magnet types, can detect
interference from above the earth. (Such as might be
caused by UFO operations.)

According to Engineer crow and the pilots, their Super
Constellation operations were arranged and paid for by
the United states navy. Whether all are Navy
controlled , beck did not learn; possibly NASA or the
AF may also be involved.

If no other agency is concerned, it could mean that
the Navy, barred by the AF from routine UFO evidence,
has launched its own program to discover how UFO are
powered and controlled, and if they are able to
interfere with earth-made aircraft. The project may
also involve gravity research, since according to
Einstein's Field Theory electricity, magnetism and
gravity are all the same force, but in different
forms.

The discover by Advisor Beck raises the possibility of
similar programs, projects created for
behind-the-scenes UFO research while the AF
automatically denies all UFO evidence. If any members
have proof of such operations, or added Project magnet
facts, we would appreciate receiving the information
as soon as possible.

Note: The equipment used in the flying Saucer
observatory set up by Wilbert Smith in 1953 had
according to one inner circle member, one piece of
state-of-the-art equipment. A state-of-the-art
magnetometer.

It should also be noted how many present day
researchers point at the US Navy as a key player in
the UFO game.

Project Magnet Official


The U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office has confirmed the
existence of Project Magnet, an “Airborne Geomagnetic
Survey,” as an unclassified project allegedly not
related to UFO investigation. In the previous edition
of the UFO Investigator (Vol. l1 No.9) NICAP reported
a link between this project and the Canadian
government project of the same name, which was an
avowed attempt to obtain scientific data on UFOs.
Personnel of one of the U.S. project aircraft, a
specially equipped Constellation, had admitted to
Advisor Robert C. Beck that the two projects were
“closely related.” Mr. Beck was told that they were
searching out magnetic anomalies, - disruptions of the
earth’s magnetic field,-emanating from above the
earth.

In a letter to a NICAP member dated November 21, 1963,
Cmdr. P.B. Everson, U.S.N., gave the following
information:



Project Magnet was initiated in 1951.
Currently there are two aircraft employed in the
Project Magnet operations, one C-121 and one C-54 type
aircraft.” (The C-121 presumably in the last issue).
The project is under the technical control and
direction of the Navy Oceanographic Office.
The purpose is to gather data over the ocean areas
for charts showing magnetic intensities and
variations.
The project is authorized “on a permanent and
continuing basis” by OPVAV (Navy Regulation) 3160.3B.
The average budget for the past three years has been
$114,000 per fiscal year, including aircraft
operation.



A brochure prepared by the Oceanographic Office makes
no mention of UFOs, magnetic anomalies from above the
earth, or the Canadian project. NICAP will continue to
seek addition information about a possible tie-in with
unpublicized UFO investigations by the Navy.



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