Wilbert Brockhouse Smith

Armed with a master's degree in science, Wil Smith headed up Project Magnet, Canada's only government funded ufo enquiry. It was the 1950's and Smith apparently had above top secret status. While on loan to America he claimed to have seen a captured ufo and alien dead bodies. He seemed oblivious to keeping secrets and openly spoke of these encounters. Soon Smith's Project Magnet was officially shut down but he carried on quietly to a distancing government stance.

Wilbert Brockhouse Smith died in the sixties at the age of 52 but not before he wrote most of his book, The New Science. He was posthumously honored and although as a scientist considered on a par with Einsten and others, he remains mostly forgotten. It can be argued that, had he not deflected the honors he received for inventions and innovations as actually being 'gifts from the outsiders', Wil Smith may well have been remembered and revered alongside the great scientific minds of his time.