Canada UFO FOIA Release — Part 20 (Pages 5701–6000)

Brief

The visible pages open on DND dossier RG 24, vol. 17984, HQ 940-5, Part 1, processed through an RCAF Temporary Docket system designed for single-case handling. A NICAP investigator letter to the RCAF Station Edmonton Commanding Officer cites JANAP 146(d) and regulation 209-2 as suppression mechanisms binding on both U.S. and Canadian armed forces, and asks nine enumerated questions including whether 'green fireballs' had been seen over Alberta. A June 18, 1959 letter signed W. B. Smith, Superintendent of Radio Regulations Engineering, declines to refer a UFO sighting near Montreal to his own department, stating it 'does not take an active interest in UFO sightings' — a notable deflection from the official who had run Canada's classified Project Magnet a decade earlier. NICAP fact-sheet literature circulating inside DND files claims radar can track UFOs or 'mother-ships' for 1,000-plus miles and that verified reports from trained observers constitute strong evidence UAP are 'real and under intelligent control.'

Metadata

Agency

Department of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Council

Release

2010-01-01

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

300 pages

Classification

UNCLASSIFIED on release; internal cover sheets carry routine RCAF administrative markings

Programs

JANAP 146, CIRVIS, Project Magnet (adjacent — W.B. Smith connection), NICAP

Tags

Georgian Bay sighting, green fireballs Alberta, no jet vapor, trailing appendage, radar tracking, infrared tracking, JANAP 146, NICAP, HQ 940-5, RG 24 vol. 17984, Project Magnet adjacent, 1959, 1960, Canada DND

Key points

• The dossier is filed under RG 24, vol. 17984, HQ 940-5, Part 1 — a structured Department of National Defence record group at Library and Archives Canada dedicated to UFO correspondence.p.6
• RCAF Temporary Docket instructions required each UFO case to have its own folder (form DND 710) and prohibited placement on general file unless entered in Central Registry, indicating procedural discipline in handling UAP mail.p.5
• Group Captain J.C. Dilworth signed outbound responses for the Chief of the Air Staff, confirming that NICAP-related UFO inquiries reached senior RCAF staff-level administration before being deflected.p.12
• NICAP investigator Ken Kaesen wrote to the RCAF Station Edmonton Commanding Officer citing JANAP 146(d) as binding on armed forces and other agencies of both the U.S. and Canada, and regulation 209-2 as ordering personnel not to reveal unsolved UFO sightings — framing Canadian silence as bilateral policy rather than ignorance.p.16
• NICAP's nine-question canvass to Canadian officers explicitly asked whether green fireballs had been seen over Alberta, whether the officer personally favored public disclosure, and whether the officer had personally witnessed a UAP.p.15
• W. B. Smith, Superintendent of Radio Regulations Engineering, wrote on June 18, 1959 to the Directorate of Air Intelligence deferring all action on a Montreal UFO sighting to the Air Force, stating his department does not take an active interest in UFO sightings.p.24
• NICAP fact-sheet material circulating inside DND files claims new infrared systems can track any heat-emitting UAP high in the atmosphere, and improved military radar can follow a single UFO or mother-ship with radarscope photography at ranges exceeding 1,000 miles.p.17
• Page 1 describes a sighting of an object traveling south to north over what the scan renders as 'Glorian Bay' (likely Georgian Bay, Ontario) — characterized as darker than a jet, shorter than a jet, with a short trailing tail but no jet vapor.p.1

Most interesting

• The W. B. Smith who signed the June 1959 Montreal-sighting letter as Superintendent of Radio Regulations Engineering is consistent with Wilbert Brockhouse Smith — the Canadian official who ran Project Magnet (1950–1954) and authored a 1950 memo rating the UFO subject as the most highly classified matter in the U.S. government. His 1959 statement that his department does not take an active interest in UFO sightings is a striking bureaucratic reversal from his earlier private posture.
• NICAP's letter to RCAF Edmonton confirms that joint U.S.–Canada UFO secrecy obligations under JANAP 146(d) were understood at the street level by civilian UFO advocacy groups by 1959–1960, well before any public acknowledgment of such bilateral regulation.
• The Alberta 'green fireballs' question mirrors U.S. Project Twinkle's 1949–1951 investigation of green fireballs over New Mexico, suggesting the phenomenon was transnational in reported distribution.
• NICAP literature circulating inside DND files predicted that official UFO secrecy would break 'in 1958' — indicating that public pressure on military UAP classification was a live political issue at least five years before the 1966 U.S. Congressional hearings.
• Page 1 describes an object with a trailing appendage but no jet vapor over what is likely Georgian Bay — a profile that does not match conventional aircraft of the era and was considered sufficiently credible to be routed into the HQ 940-5 dossier system.
• The NICAP fact sheet references Dr. H. Percy Wilkins, a noted British lunar cartographer, claiming he confirmed observations of a bridge-like structure on the Moon but attributed it to an unexplained natural object — demonstrating the breadth of fringe-adjacent claims being injected into official DND correspondence channels at this period.