Project Second Storey Committee Records and Conclusions

Project Second Storey was formed in 1952 as an advisory body involving scientists and officials from multiple Canadian government agencies, including the Defence Research Board and in connection with Wilbert Smith's Project Magnet. It focused on cataloguing and correlating data from UFO reports, developing a standardised sighting questionnaire, and assessing whether further scientific investigation was warranted. The committee, chaired by astronomer Peter Millman, reviewed available information but did not conduct field investigations. Its conclusions were that UFOs, if real, did not appear to represent a defence threat and were not suitable for productive scientific inquiry with the methods and data then available; most reports could be attributed to misidentifications of conventional or natural phenomena. The project was wound down by 1954 with a recommendation to close related efforts.