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The Canadian Connection jiggled and turned and rearranged and frequently set aside until some intermediate pieces can be found and fitted. In the search for the pieces of the New Mexico crash puzzle, there have always been far more disjointed bits waiting to be recog- nized and neatly tucked into place than there were firmly emplaced ones. In fact, the process has been a lot like trying to assemble a blank jigsaw puzzle of unknown size and shape in a room illuminated by a single forty-watt bulb. One especially important piece of the crash puzzle sat around for years before anyone was able to figure out where it fit. The piece came from the Canadian government, an un- likely source of UFO information. In 1979, Stanton Friedman was shown a formerly top-secret memorandum by Canadian investigator Scott Foster. It had been sent to the Controller of Telecommunications of the Ca- nadian Department of Transport by Wilbert B. Smith, a senior radio engineer who was working on geomagnetism. The star- tling portion of the November 21, 1950, memo (which may have been released accidentally) read: Liz rarely fall into place by themselves. They must be 47