Shirleys Bay

Sign at entrance to restricted area

Shirleys Bay is a bay of the Ottawa River, about ten miles from Ottawa in Ontario, Canada.

It is also the name of a Canadian military and civilian telecommunication research campus which is located on the shore of the bay. Organizations with facilities at the site include Defence Research and Development Canada, Communications Research Centre, the Canadian Space Agency's David Florida Laboratory, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Firearms Training Unit, Department of Defence firearms training area, and the Connaught National Army Cadet Summer Training Centre. In October 1952, the Canadian government set up an observatory at the site to attempt to measure magnetic or radio noise disturbances.[1]

Project Magnet

Main article: Project Magnet

Project Magnet was an unidentified flying object (UFO) study programme established by the Department of Transport (DOT) on 2 December 1950, under the direction of Wilbert B. Smith, senior radio engineer for the DOT's Broadcast and Measurements Section. It was formally active until mid-1954, and informally until Smith's death in 1962.

The station, Project Magnet, was equipped with radio monitoring equipment, Geiger counters and cameras. It allegedly recorded a suspicious signal on 8 August 1954, which some presume was from a UFO. Although no pictures were made because of fog, all further results were declared secret.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Canada's Unidentified Flying Objects: The Search for the Unknown at Library and Archives Canada

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Coordinates: 45°22′30″N 75°53′52″W / 45.375121°N 75.897846°W / 45.375121; -75.897846

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