Wilbert B. Smith - Epitome of the UFOlogy 'Government Insider'/'Whistle-Blower'

   

Today what is known about Wilbert Brockhouse Smith (1910-1962) would make him an ideal and genuine example of what are now commonly called 'government insiders'/'whistle-blowers' in the field of UFOlogy disclosure.

While mystification and fearsome sensationalism seem to have long been a 'status quo' orientation among commercial UFOlogy/ paranormal book and video publishers/producers, individuals communicating space people contact scenarios—and the resultant spiritual insights—have altogether been ignored or ridiculed by some potential researchers based upon their individual assumptions and guesswork.  Knowledgeable UFOlogy authors have shown a different sensibility.  Donald E. Keyhoe wrote about his association with W. B. Smith/Wilbur Smith in Flying Saucers from Outer Space (1953) and The Flying Saucer Conspiracy (1955).  Thirteen years later, Arthur Shuttlewood wrote about Wilbert B. Smith (1910-1962) of Canada in Warnings From Flying Friends (1968).  He is described as “a top-ranking scientist in the service of the Canadian Government.  In addition, he was a sincere searcher for truth in connection with UFO machines and crews.”  Arthur quoted commentary of Wilbert Smith from a 1958 Ottowa Flying Saucer Club lecture (as follows) — the UFOlogy topics found in this passage include statements that obviously were theoretical for Wilbert when expressing what had been learned.

Our civilization here on Earth now is only one of many that have come and gone.  This planet has been colonized many times by people from elsewhere, and our present human race are blood-brothers of these people.  Is it any wonder that they are interested in us?

To orthodox thinkers this may seem strange, but not nearly so strange as our orthodox ideas on evolution.  The question might be asked: If these people are our brothers, and are interested in our welfare, why do they remain so aloof?  The answer is available.

There is a basic law of the Universe which grants each and every individual independence and freedom of choice, so that he may experience and learn from his experiences.  No one has the right to interfere in the affairs of others — in fact, our ten commandments are directives against interference.

If we disregard this law we must suffer the consequences, and a little thought will show that our present world state is directly attributable to violation of this principle.  When we enter this life, we do so to participate in certain events, the sequence of which we established before our birth, and which if altered substantially would deprive us of experiences necessary for our development.

We have built-in protection against altering substantially the sequences, in that we do not consciously know of them.  But these people from outside have a much greater knowledge than we have, and have means of perceiving sequences which must not be changed.

Therefore, while they have every desire in the world to help, and stand by ready, able and willing to do so, they are not permitted by Cosmic law to interfere.  The dividing line between help and interference is very delicate indeed, sometimes hard to perceive, but it is a demonstration of individual and collective progress as to how well we can be guided by it.

There have been many published instances of contact between those from outside and the people of Earth, and a very great many more that have not been published.  As is always the case in any new and romantic field, there have been those who prevaricate and exaggerate, but it is not too difficult to establish that the vast majority are honest and authentic.

For instance, when a dozen or so independent contacts, having no common connection and each alone believing that he or she has been favored above all to receive this message, and tell the same message even to names and descriptions that tally perfectly, one has little choice but to believe that they are telling the truth.

Furthermore, when the material given to us through the many channels is all assembled and analyzed, it adds up to a complete and elegant philosophy which makes our efforts sound like the beating of jungle drums.  These people tell us of a magnificent Cosmic plan, of which we are a part, which transcends the lifetime of a single person or nation or civilization, or even a planet or solar system.

We are not merely told that there is something beyond our immediate experience — we are told what it is and our relation therewith.  Many of our most vexing problems are solved with a few words; at least, we are told of the solutions if we have the understanding and fortitude to apply them.

We are told of the inadequacies of our science, and we have been given the basic grounding for a new science which is a once simpler and yet more embracing than the mathematical monstrosity which we have conjured up.  We have been told of a way of life which is Utopian beyond our dreams, and the means of attaining it.

Can it be that such a self-consistent and magnificent philosophy is the figment of imagination of a number of misguided morons?  I do not think so.  If the only evidence we had was philosophical, we might justifiably suspect it.  But when coupled with the reality of observations—thousands of them—we cannot dismiss it so easily.

This is especially true if we consider that the science which has been passed to us by these people from elsewhere explains in a manner, in which we have been quite unable to do, why the saucers behave as they do, and how it is that they can do things which to us are virtually impossible.

The science and the performance check perfectly.  Again, we have been told where our scientific ideas are wrong or inadequate and experiments have been suggested and carried out; and in every case the alien science has been vindicated.

We may ask, if all this is  known, why has it not been publicized?  Why are not these matters being studied instead of atom bombs?  The answer is: It has been publicized.  Books have been written and hundreds and thousands of copies sold.

There are available many periodicals containing this material, which may be had for quite a nominal sum.  Reports have been prepared by serious investigators and presented through the proper channels, but it is truly said that one can lead a horse to water, but one cannot make him drink!

Wilbert B. Smith and Project Magnet are the subject of an Ottawa Citizen retrospective article that is the source of the following passage:

Smith, who in 1955 became one of City View’s three inaugural trustees, was himself an ardent believer in aliens.  In a speech delivered to the Vancouver Area UFO Club in 1961, a year before his death, he claimed to have communicated with extraterrestrials, whom he at least occasionally referred to as “the boys topside.”  An engineer, he was particularly interested in such technical matters as how their spacecraft was built and how they were propelled.  He claims they explained to him how the speed of light is not constant, and that time was not the measured chronological ticking we imagine, but a “field function” that changed throughout the universe, and which could be altered.  Their ships, he was told, were supported on the Earth’s gravitational field.  The fields surrounding their ships, he added, created areas that reduced areas that weakened the strength of objects that came into contact with them, accounting for the destruction of earthly military craft that flew too close to them.  This explained, among other phenomenon, the May 1956 crash of a military jet into the Villa St. Louis convent in Orleans — the jet, Smith said, flew into a “very strong vortex of reduced binding,” causing it to break apart.

“I wrote a very stiff memorandum to the appropriate people in my own department pointing out some of these facts,” he wrote.  But his letter, he maintained, “wound up on the crank file.”

Similar unstable vortices, he added, were created when nuclear explosions occurred.  An unnamed friend of his who had also been in contact with “these people from outside” claimed to have spoken with one, Tyla, a garbage collector whose job it was to clean up the radioactive messes created by such man-made explosions.  Tyla, Smith said, gathered the material, took it aboard his ship where it was rendered inert, and then dumped it in some secluded spot on Earth.  In 1948, Tyla reportedly told his friend that he would dump his next load near Ottawa, and that he would pick an opportune time so many people could witness it.  According to Smith, it took place on Remembrance Day that year: “We looked up to the northwest of Ottawa and there was Tyla’s little craft, an egg-shaped affair in the sky, and coming out of the tail-end of it was what looked like an almost dissipated portion of a jet trail that was dropping down.”

There are publications purportedly making available Wilbert Smith's thoughts on metaphysical/UFOlogy subjects as originally published in articles written for Topside publications of the Ottawa New Sciences Club.  The accuracy of these versions of the articles is unconfirmed.  

 
Audio recordings of Wilbert Smith may be heard at the NOUFERS Wendy Ann Connors "Night Journeys in UFOlogy" "Project Blue Book" page.  There is also a NOUFERS page of biographical information for Wilbert B. Smith, whose uncompleted book The New Science (1964) was published posthumously.