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Last Thursday, August 22, I was in San Francisco just catching a plane home from the Westcon,

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the Western Conference of Electronic Manufacturers show in San Francisco.

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And out on one of the auxiliary runways, we spotted this super constellation with the

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strange sign Project Magnet on the tail.

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I happened to be in the restaurant shortly after that and two gentlemen, which were obviously

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pilots, sat down about one seat away from me and started discussing the ship that they'd

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flown in here for part of the National Geophysical Year Conference, which seemed to be simultaneous

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with the Westcon Conference in San Francisco.

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And I was quite familiar with the constellation since I had tested these ships when I was

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a flight test engineer at Lockheed.

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And I asked them if Project Magnet on the tail signified the same as Wilbert Smith's

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Project Magnet in Canada.

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And the gentlemen were a little bit startled and they said, why, yes, we're closely or

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we're closely related.

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I asked them if for all time's sake I might be able to come out and take a look through

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the ship.

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They granted me permission.

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So on the way in and out, I shot a few photographs.

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These are a few from this series.

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Now, the second shot shows clearly the markings on the ship, the constellation, the tip tanks,

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etc.

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The third shot shows a Mr. Crow, C-R-O-W, the gentleman with the beard standing beside

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the Magnetic Anomaly Detector, which was in the aft end of the constellation.

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I struck up a conversation with Mr. Crow and he spoke rather guardedly that this constellation

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was a number one of a number unspecified of ships specifically equipped with these extremely

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highly sensitive magnetometers.

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He said that the Magnetic Anomaly Detector, which was vertically polarized as opposed

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to horizontally polarized for the World War II units, which are still classified as secret,

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had an absolute sensitivity of from 10 to 20 gamma, which I felt was rather remarkable

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compared to the old anti-submarine detectors that were used in World War II.

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I pressed him a little bit on the subject naturally without mentioning the term UFO and

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every answer that he gave me before he finally clammed up indicated that one of the primary

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missions of this particular constellation, which had been all over the world, was connected

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with the same thing that the Project Magnet in Canada was searching for.

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He said that he knew of the work of Wilbert Smith.

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He said that this was an outgrowth of in cooperation with the Canadian government of Project Magnet

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in Canada.

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Later, when I made the mistake of mentioning the word UFO, he clammed up almost immediately

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as if he were on security.

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This ship was commissioned and paid for by the Department of the Navy.

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Its cover story, the reason which they give for having this equipment on board, was that

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it is searching out magnetic anomalies for navigational purposes and that these isometric

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lines, which this ship can determine, are then forwarded to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic

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Survey Office, where they will eventually go on navigational charts all over the world.

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But Mr. Crowe, in this picture after I had the opportunity to communicate with him for

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about 10 minutes, indicated rather strongly that the primary purpose of this was for magnetic

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anomalies coming from above the surface of the Earth.

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When I asked him if his crew had found any anomalies coming from above, he said yes very

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definitely in the area of Key West, Florida, that when they flew close to the surface of

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the Earth, they got rather smooth isometric lines.

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When they flew at higher altitudes, these things were rough, which would indicate to

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him that at the particular time this mission was flown, the magnetic anomalies were coming

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from above the Earth.

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The next photograph in this series is a close-up of this anomaly detector, which is fantastically

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sensitive.

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The fifth shot of the series shows the navigator station, this chair on the post, with a lookout

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for their astro navigation, and behind it the control panels for the magnetic detectors.

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The last shot in this series shows a close-up of the bench for the electronic control and

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charting position for the magnetic anomaly detectors.

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Another thing which came out of this conversation was that several of our satellites were equipped

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with heavy-water proton progression type magnetometers.

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The cover story here again being that they were searching for magnetic anomalies in the

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Earth's magnetic field, and a very very obvious inference being that they were searching for

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unidentified flying objects, which in some way disturbed the Earth's magnetic field and

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gave themselves away in this manner.

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I thought this was rather interesting.

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You might add it to your collection of unsolved data.

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My own conclusion based on talking with both the pilots, co-pilot and Mr. Crowe, was that

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they are quite aware that this ship is being used and part of the overall search for the

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UFO.