University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections (AtoM) - run 3, 2026-10-04
Site: https://arcs-atom.uottawa.ca/ (Arthur Bray fonds, CA ON0034 30-003). Run 1 and 2: blocked (rate limit). Run 3 (Chrome): positive. An automatic "Verifying your browser" page redirected after about 5 s (no CAPTCHA, no interaction). The finding-aid PDF first returned HTTP 429 in the page and then downloaded by plain request.
Saved: files/uOttawa_Arthur-Bray-fonds_30-003_finding-aid.pdf (175 pp.).
Queries
Catalogue browse: Moray (3 hits), "radiant energy" (4), Schiess (1), Hendershot (1). Then the file records F4, F6, F8, F9, F17, F24 and the full finding aid were read (grep: moray, radiant, schiess, hendershot, hooper, betz, burridge, cosray, wachs, fletcher).
Findings [web: arcs-atom.uottawa.ca record pages and the finding-aid PDF]
Six files about Moray are in the Wilbert B. Smith research series (S1). Smith was the Canadian Department of Transport engineer who ran Project Magnet. None is digitised; access is open, but some files have reproduction restrictions (finding aid, p.4).
| Ref. code | Box/file | Dates | Size | Scope (archive's wording, shortened) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30-003-S1-SS5-F4 "Correspondence: 'Radiant Energy' Invention (by Dr. T. H. Moray)" | 2,14 | 1928-1956 | 0.7 cm | "correspondence between various authors pertaining to an apparatus invented by T. H. Moray (Radiant Energy Machine) of which he provided a demonstration of to show its production of electrical energy"; also "a brief biography of Dr. T. H. Moray and his associates" |
| 30-003-S1-SS5-F24 Schiess, Marcel C. | 3,3 | 1928-1957 | 0.6 cm text + 0.1 cm technical drawings | "correspondence and reports collected by Marcel C. Schiess for W. B. Smith about T. H. Moray's 'radiant energy' discovery"; Hendershot motor; "witness accounts of the machine in use"; drawings for "a thermo-nuclear power generator" |
| 30-003-S1-SS4-F4 W. B. Smith - Miscellaneous | 1,33 | 1928-1957 | 0.3 cm | "two letters concerning Dr. T. H. Moray's demonstration of reducing cosmic energy to electrical energy" (plus UFO newsletters) |
| 30-003-S1-SS5-F6 Betz, Carl H. | 2,16 | 1945-1954, mostly 1954 | 0.3 cm | Betz-Smith correspondence and two Moray leaflets ("Photo Actinia Oxygen Therapy"; "Radiant Energy" as a power source) |
| 30-003-S1-SS5-F8 Buchli, Richard | 2,18 | May 1957-[Jul 1958?] | 0.2 cm | letters between Buchli and Smith about sky phenomena, "Dr. T. H. Moray", personal matters, equations |
| 30-003-S1-SS5-F17 Hooper, W. J. | 2,27 | Sep 1958-Aug 1959 | 0.03 cm | Smith and "A. R. Hooper", personal, "a bit of information on electro-magnetic energy" |
| (also) 30-003-S1-SS5-F9 Burridge, Gaston | 2,19 | 5 Apr 1958 | 0.01 cm | one Burridge letter on Smith's concepts (Moray not named in the description) |
How it bears on the claims
- Carl H. Betz is the author of the 1954 witness notes in the project folder (
zz-Misc/betz_05-25-1954.pdf), and Gaston Burridge wrote the 1955 letter in the folder (burridge_03-25-1955.pdf). Their correspondence with Smith may hold the originals or covering letters for those notes. A Betz file dated mostly 1954 fits the date of the Betz notes. - F4 and F24 start in 1928, the year of the Fletcher endurance test, and F24 promises "witness accounts of the machine in use". These copies came through a Canadian government engineer, not through the Moray family's editors. So they could show whether the family books quote the 1928-1938 witness letters in full (Claims 1, 2 and 6, and the Fletcher dispute).
- W. J./A. R. Hooper: probably the Hooper of the Research Institute's 1960s gold work (Silence E). The identification is not confirmed. The catalogue's own file title says "W. J." and its description says "A. R."; W. J. Hooper of Principia College was an electrical engineer [memory, medium].
- Action: request copies of F4, F24, SS4-F4, F6 and F8 (about 2 cm in all) from the uOttawa Archives reference service.