1952 Project Second Story
In connection with the establishment of Project Magnet by Wilbert Smith at the Department of Transport, a committee was formed by members of other government agencies that was dedicated solely to dealing with "flying saucer" reports. This committee was sponsored by the Defence Research Board and called "Project Second Story." Its main purpose was to collect, catalogue and correlate data from UFO sighting reports.
View minutes of first meeting
View minutes of second meeting
This committee developed a questionnaire and an interrogator's instructional guide. Of significance is that the reporting method used a system intended to minimize the "personal equation". In other words, the committee created a weighting factor to measure the probability of truth in each report.
View questionnaire
Completed questionnaires can be found by searching the database under RG 97 vol. 114 file 5010-4.
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