Claims
The Wilbert Smith memo's claim that Vannevar Bush headed a small UFO study group is secondhand
Unproven What these labels mean →The Smith memo's content, that UFOs were studied by a 'small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush,' is secondhand: the memo credits 'discreet enquiries through the Canadian Embassy staff in Washington.' Researchers (Bray, Friedman, Good) later tied it to Smith's separate notes of a 15 Sep 1950 conversation with Robert Sarbacher; those notes are not yet fetched here.
Evidence
| Relation | Record | Note |
|---|---|---|
| reports | metabunk.org | Memo text: information obtained via "discreet enquiries through the Canadian Embassy staff in Washington"; no individual source named |
Sources
| Source | Relation | At |
|---|---|---|
| UFO secrecy architecture (UAP Gerb Vol 1) | reports |
Ties
| To | Role | Years | Verdict | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vannevar Bush | Gerb: scientific head of early UFO effort | 1947–1953 | Unproven | youtube.com |
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Claim
The Smith memo's content, that UFOs were studied by a 'small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush,' is secondhand: the memo credits 'discreet enquiries through the Canadian Embassy staff in Washington.' Researchers (Bray, Friedman, Good) later tied it to Smith's separate notes of a 15 Sep 1950 conversation with Robert Sarbacher; those notes are not yet fetched here.