This is a significant event because it not only reveals the government’s interest, but demonstrates how seriously they took the content of Smith’s memo. For Many years Canadian officials refused to acknowledge that the group existed and insisted there was no government investigation being carried out. This was revealed to be a lie when the researcher Arthur Bray obtained reports of twenty-five sightings that had been investigated by Project Magnet. The Canadian Air Force issued a number of directives through the 1950s to pilots on how they were to make reports of UFOs.
