Wilson-Davis Memo
TopicDocument CollectionWilson-Davis Memo
TopicDocument CollectionA disputed set of notes attributed to Eric Davis that describes an alleged 2002 conversation with retired Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson about a hidden technology program.
A disputed set of notes attributed to Eric Davis that describes an alleged 2002 conversation with retired Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson about a hidden technology program.
The Wilson–Davis memo is a 15-page set of notes attributed to physicist Eric Davis. Dated October 16, 2002, it purports to record a conversation with retired Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson, a former senior intelligence official. The text describes Wilson's alleged effort to obtain access to a deeply compartmented contractor program said to possess technology “not of this Earth.” It is not an official memorandum issued by Wilson's office.
Copies emerged publicly in 2019 among papers associated with astronaut Edgar Mitchell. In May 2022, Representative Mike Gallagher submitted the document as supporting material during a House UAP hearing. Its presence on a congressional hearing page establishes preservation in the public record; it does not authenticate the narrative or convert its statements into congressional findings. Davis has generally avoided publicly validating details, while Wilson has denied the alleged meeting and story.
Researchers point to names, dates, institutional roles, and connections in the notes that appear consistent with known people and events. Skeptics emphasize the uncertain chain of custody, absence of original forensic examination, conversational reconstruction, and lack of corroborating program records. Even if Davis wrote the notes contemporaneously, that would establish his record of what he believed was said, not independently prove the claimed Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering program.
The document matters because it shaped later claims about contractor control, waived special-access programs, and officials denied access despite oversight roles. Its evidentiary status should remain explicit: attributed notes, entered as hearing material, with central participants offering no shared public confirmation. Claims derived from it are strongest when tied to exact passages and independently sourced facts rather than treating the memo's existence as proof of the program it describes.
Let me apologize in advance if this topic has been done to death in this sub, I'm new to it. I found myself falling down yet another UFO rabbit hole and stumbled across the Wilson/Davis memo which I've read through once before. I'm wondering what everyone's take is on whether it's legit or not? And why or why not you feel that way. I do happen to believe it's a legitimate document and it's a conversation that did in fact take place in 2002. Thoughts?
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[Retweeted] @JamesRigney3 who leaked the famous Wilson Davis Memo, has done more work on the Aztec case than anyone I know. He concludes it’s a hoax. If we’re lucky we might hear his thoughts. https://t.co/ycHDqHgIHg
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[Retweeted] He saw the Wilson-Davis Memo BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. “I was approached by James Rigney out of Australia.” “First page, I see Oke Shannon’s name and Eric Davis’s name.” “I was thinkin’ I don’t know what to do with this thing. I gotta get it on the internet.” “I’m not gonna cover it up. If anyone asked me for the document I would give it to them and then they would leak the document.” “Some guy asked to see it. About a month later it was on the internet.” The Wilson-Davis memo brought a...
He saw the Wilson/Davis memo before anyone else in the UFO community. Obviously, other folks had seen it. https://t.co/n71puQb2ic [Quoted] He saw the Wilson-Davis Memo BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. “I was approached by James Rigney out of Australia.” “First page, I see Oke Shannon’s name and Eric Davis’s name.” “I was thinkin’ I don’t know what to do with this thing. I gotta get it on the internet.” “I’m not gonna cover it up. If anyone asked me for the document I would give it to them and then they wo...
He saw the Wilson-Davis Memo BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. “I was approached by James Rigney out of Australia.” “First page, I see Oke Shannon’s name and Eric Davis’s name.” “I was thinkin’ I don’t know what to do with this thing. I gotta get it on the internet.” “I’m not gonna cover it up. If anyone asked me for the document I would give it to them and then they would leak the document.” “Some guy asked to see it. About a month later it was on the internet.” The Wilson-Davis memo brought attention to...
CIA DS&T and the Technical Gatekeeper The previous essays traced an alleged retrieval pipeline and examined how compartments, custody and controlled information could exclude elected officials. This installment asks whether the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Science and Technology could act as a technical portfolio manager connecting collection, foreign-materiel exploitation, advanced research and private contractors. Executive Summary in the comments. Prior posts: The Alleged U...
The most intriguing possibility raised by physicist Eric Davis’s recent interviews is not simply that the United States possesses anomalous hardware. It is that a mature acquisition system may have grown around it: military-intelligence networks detect and recover objects, specialized technical teams make them safe, intelligence agencies control access, and aerospace contractors attempt the reverse engineering. That model connects several bodies of evidence that are usually discussed separate...
NASA Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell: "The Roswell crash was a real UFO with alien bodies" 🛸👽🇺🇸 Dr. Mitchell told Larry King from insiders he interviewed and Pentagon sources that Roswell was real. They also discussed the infamous Wilson Davis memo which was part of the late Edgar Mitchell’s estate.
