“Higher Than the H-Bomb”: Wilbert Smith, Robert Sarbacher and the 1950 Memo

Part 30 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR Wilbert Smith’s November 1950 memo is a genuine Canadian government record. Smith wrote that saucers existed, that the U.S. guarded the subject more closely than the H-bomb, and that Vannevar Bush led a group studying them. Smith’s September interview notes trace the existence and secrecy claims to Robert Sarbacher, who called Scully’s crashed-saucer book “substantially correct.” The notes say noth...