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Davis-Wilson Memo - An Introductory Guide PDF
Davis-Wilson Memo - An Introductory Guide PDF
An Introductory Guide
Compiled by
Matthew Manley
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Contents
2 days later
• “The watch committee” of the program director, security director (counterintelligence expert that was retired from National Security
Agency), and corporate attorney called Wilson and said they would do a face-to-face meeting at their facility. Wilson would go 10 days later.
September 1997
• Wilson begins as Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support at CIA. Noel Longuemare, Jr.
Principal Deputy USDAT
January 1998 (Nov 1993 – Nov 1997)
• Wilson talked to the Kaminski’s successor, Jacques Gansler about June 1997 meetings. Gansler
said he had been briefed about it and that “UFOs are real, so-called ‘alien abductions’ not real,”
then told Wilson to drop the matter – no more discussion about it.
March 1998
• Wilson is assigned as Director for Intelligence (J-2), a DIA billet operationally allocated to the
Joint Staff.
Leslie Kean
Investigative journalist
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Davis-Wilson Memo – Timeline 6/10: Preparation
April 2002
• Davis is laid off of Robert Bigelow’s research organization National Institute for
Discovery Science (NIDS). Mitchell was on the NIDS Science Advisory Board.
September 2002
• Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) Las Vegas chapter president
Richard “Rich” Cohn talks to Wilson, sending him papers from Davis and Richard Cohn Douglas Nousen
Director, Nevada Intelligence Center, DOE Counterintelligence Officer,
suggesting Wilson talk to him about DIA careers.
President, AFIO, NNSA Nevada Field Office, DOE
• Cohn and Douglas “Doug” Nousen, a founding member of the AFIO Las Vegas
Las Vegas chapter
chapter, had vouched for Davis. The chapter’s first meeting would be in (2002-2016)
October and they told Wilson they were looking for guest speakers. AFIO National Vice President for Chapters
(2017-Present)
October 2002
• Wilson is on trip arranged by National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
to visit test site special area to wrap up projects he had begun in 1998.
• Cohn messages Davis about meeting Wilson. Cohn tells him date (Wednesday,
October 16), time (“meet at 10 A.M. – don’t be late!!”) and place (EG&G
Special Projects building at Grier Drive and Paradise Road).
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Davis-Wilson Memo – Timeline 7/10: Meeting & Notes
October 16, 2002
• Meeting between Davis and Wilson in Las Vegas. Davis takes detailed notes of 70 minute
meeting that would become Davis-Wilson Memo (see Appendix III).
2006
• Researcher Richard Dolan claims to have seen 2 or 3 of the pages of the Davis-Wilson memo
(speculated to be by Harold “Hal” Puthoff, who was Davis’s boss at EarthTech International).
Publicly mentions it at conference in Las Vegas on November 9.
October 2010
• Mitchell describes the Davis/Wilson meeting in Las Vegas, in h+ magazine interview: “another
contact of mine, who must also remain nameless because he’s on classified programs,
encountered the Admiral in Las Vegas, where he had been looking for and trying to get into
the so-called “strategic access program” around the UFO incident and had been denied.”
February 4, 2016
• Mitchell dies at age 85. He had lived with his nephew, Mitchell “Mitch” Harkins. In 2016,
Harkins gave permission to a very close friend of the late Mitchell (speculated to be Paul “Mitch” Harkins Paul Duggan
Duggan) in assisting clearing up the estate and many of the private papers that were to be Nephew of Edgar Mitchell Close friend of Edgar Mitchell
trashed were saved by him.
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Davis-Wilson Memo – Timeline 8/10: Going Public
2016
• James Rigney of Australia was good friends with this friend of Mitchell, who he
had known since at least 2013 and was without connection to any military or
intelligence agency, and in two stages over a twelve month or longer period let
him look through Mitchell’s files and copy a number of documents. He had
received the first of the two documents for several years, and knows several
others who had them [partially] for a decade or so.
December 4, 2018
• Gansler dies at age 84.
January 2019
• Cameron gets copy of the full 15 pages of the Davis-Wilson Memo from Rigney.
November 2019
• Steven Greenstreet interviews Davis (uploaded May 2020) where Davis states the memo was “leaked out of
Ed Mitchell’s estate.” Christopher Mellon
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Security and Intelligence Operations
December 2019
(Jun 1998 – Nov 1999)
• Davis begins working for The Aerospace Corporation as Senior Project Engineer, ending 15 years as Chief Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Science Officer at Puthoff’s company EarthTech International, Inc. and its research division the Institute for for Intelligence
Advanced Studies at Austin. (Nov 1999 – Dec 2002)
Staff Director, Senate Intel. Cmte.
March 2020 (Jan 2003 – Apr 2004)
• Davis gave classified briefing to Department of Defense agency about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not
made on this earth.”
July 6, 2022
• Gallagher and Rep. Rubén Gallego (D-AZ) cosponsor and publicly file a UAP reporting procedures amendment for
consideration in the U.S. House of Representative’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The amendment
was accepted into the NDAA legislation and then approved by the full House on July 14, 2022.
Appendix I:
Public Statements
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Public Statements from Adm. Tom Wilson
Adm. Tom Wilson, interviewed by Billy Cox (Aug 5, 2008)
“Never,” Wilson replied Tuesday when asked if he’d ever been barred from retrieving classified material, exotic or otherwise, during his career.
In interview with Jay Anderson (September 23, 2022): Dr. Steven Greer
“I got this phone call, uh, and it was from, uh, Admiral Wilson, and “They are substantially correct with only minor errors. The thrust of the
he asked me -- now this was not a short conversation. I was notes, the briefing which I conducted and the fact the admiral was threatened
recuperating. I was able to carry on this conversation on the phone if he pushed the matter etc : all true.”
but I wasn't able to do much else at that point. And we had a
discussion and one of the the things he wanted to know is could he
trust Eric Davis.”
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Public Statements from others in Davis-Wilson Memo
Richard Cohn, in interview with Billy Cox (October 19, 2022) Doug Nousen, in message published by Billy Cox (December 20, 2022)
“I put out a call for people who were members (of the AFIO) living in “I do recall Eric’s name and may have even met him with Rich concerning
the Las Vegas area to gather and discuss organizing a chapter. official DOE business, but nothing dealing with anything I read concerning
(Davis) showed up for that – it was around 2002.” Wilson, special projects, etc.”
“It’s doubtful that I would be in a position to vouch for him because, On preparing background information on Davis, this is “far outside my job
when it comes to attesting to whether or not someone is description or something I would consider doing . . . Having worked with DIA
trustworthy enough to be in a position of trust to the government, I at times during my career, it is not an organization you recommend someone
did not know him that well. I only knew him from the standpoint of to lightly.”
the work that he did or the volunteerism for the chapter of AFIO in
Las Vegas.” Paul Kaminski, in call to Billy Cox (2019)
“I did not know him personally, only from a social setting beyond “I don’t think I knew Admiral Wilson. I don’t recall him.”
meetings of the chapter. I mean, if I was to be contacted by “I wasn’t aware of all programs. So it’s certainly possible there was something
somebody who wanted to do a background investigation, I’d have to that was special access and there wasn’t a need to know. And there are
decline. I’m not in a position to vouch for that.” always tradeoffs in that. Unfortunately, I don’t have any knowledge to convey
“And again, I’m not familiar at all with the admiral and I’m also not about this one.”
familiar with the alleged meeting that took place between Dr. Davis
and the admiral. I don’t know who facilitated such a meeting or Noel Longuemare, Jr., response to Billy Cox (November 2019)
what was discussed or any nature of it. If it happened, it was done “While Acting USD(AT&L), the SAPOC reviewed a number of classified
without my knowledge.” programs when I was present. I do not recall UFOs ever coming up, nor any
issues regarding need-to-know.”
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Public Statements from others
Dr. Bob McGwier, response to Richard Dolan (July 2020) Luis Elizondo, interviewed by Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel (May 17, 2022)
“In the mail, he [Wilson] talked to Dr. Davis and tried to find these “The Wilson documents — something that I’m not at liberty to discuss were
SAPs and could not gain access.” The Virginia Tech professor and submitted for the first time as public record. I mean, I wouldn’t want to be in
member of Institute for Defense Analyses (1984-2011) had viewed, that hot seat right now. I mean, I know what I know and, you know, I wouldn’t
circa late 2004 or early 2005, a mail from Wilson to someone else in want to touch that hot potato with a 10-foot pole and yet here we are: it’s a
which Wilson confirmed the meeting with Davis and the contents of part of now public record. Holy smokes, dude!”
what they had discussed.
Dr. Garry Nolan, interviewed by Ross Coulthart (August 2022)
James Rigney, response to Keith Basterfield (June 2019) Upon answering he thinks the document is genuine, “I know Eric Davis and
“I am with Richard Dolan and Grant Cameron, along with many Eric is of the kind of character that is just impossible for him to lie.”
others, in having no doubt that these documents are genuine.” “And this is an example of it” [how everything leaks] “…ultimately it leaked,
but what was interesting was how it was found. It was found in Edgar
Richard Dolan (July 2020) Mitchell’s effects after he died so it wasn’t like anybody went out of their way
“For me there's never been a doubt - I know they are real. I've done to put it out and Eric Davis had written it and I don’t know what the story was
my best to explain to why without giving up any identities and I as to how Edgar, Dr. Mitchell, got ahold of it but nobody was to actively reveal
think I've been pretty emphatic about it but in fact there's a wealth it. It was the work of journalists who finally got ahold of Edgar’s materials
of detail in these notes that make it clear that they are authentic.” who decided to release it so why would Eric Davis lie about writing something
he never intended to go public in the first place. He was just doing what an
Ross Coulthart, interviewed by Jay Anderson (June 2021) intelligence agent does on a regular basis which is write reports of what it is
“I'm in absolutely no doubt about the authenticity of the Admiral they’ve been doing.”
Wilson document and, uh, because of people who you know that I “Well before this came to light, I already knew of the document. So, because,
know um have basically confirmed the provenance of that you know, Eric was part of a group I was associated with around this.”
document that it absolutely came from the estate of Dr. Edgar
Mitchell and um, it's a highly cogent explication of what I believe is
the case that that there is in the possession of private aerospace a
technology that is far beyond known human science.”
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Public Statements from others
Christopher Mellon (December 24, 2022) Dr. Jacques Vallée, interviewed by James Iandoli
“Even before this ‘whistleblower’ legislation was signed into law, credible (October 31, 2022)
individuals were providing Congress information alleging that the US government Asked when he first saw the Davis-Wilson memo, he said
has recovered extraterrestrial technology. This process began in 2019 when I he was part of a group with Eric Davis. “We knew about it
brought astrophysicist Dr. Eric Davis to Capitol Hill to meet with staff from the at least 8 years before it was disclosed [publicly in 2019].”
Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees. Dr. Davis, author of the famous “Yes, in the early 2000s.”
Wilson-Davis memo, provided specific information lending credence to sensational
reports that an official US government program is actively seeking to exploit
recovered technology that was fashioned by some other species or perhaps
advanced AI machines. Much of the information Dr. Davis provided remains highly
classified, but the good news is that these sensational claims, which have the
potential to transform our understanding of the universe and man’s place within it,
are now being taken seriously and properly investigated. I’ve brought others besides
Dr. Davis and Lue Elizondo to the Hill and the AARO office and I am encouraging
anyone else who may be able to help set the record straight to step forward as
well.”
“I’m not claiming that the information provided to Congress or to AARO proves that
earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. However, Dr. Davis and Mr. Elizondo and
other witnesses are credible former government officials who worked on highly
classified government programs. Having heard their reports, and those of others
who are coming forward, I can vouch for the fact that the AARO office has serious
leads to pursue. The media is doing the public a great disservice by ignoring the UAP
issue because a sudden shocking revelation runs the risk of being far more
disruptive and disturbing than information gradually processed and absorbed. If
these claims prove true, blindsiding the public greatly increases the risk of negative
consequences.”
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Public Statements on retrieved materials
Harry Reid (July 2020) Luis Elizondo, interviewed by Tucker Carlson (May 1, 2019)
“After looking into this, I came to the conclusion that there were “Aaah, simply put, yes.” in response to does he think the US government has
reports — some were substantive, some not so substantive — debris from a UFO right now?
that there were actual [UAP] materials that the government and Interviewed by Charlie Burton (November 25, 2021)
the private sector had in their possession... It is extremely Asked if he thinks that any government has recovered a crashed UAP: "So
important that information about the discovery of physical what I've said for the record, which is unfortunately all I can say, is that it is
materials or retrieved craft come out.” my belief that the United States is in possession of exotic material and
unfortunately that's about all I can say at this time."
(May 2021)
“I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these Dr. Eric Davis (June 2, 2019)
retrieved materials. And I tried to get, as I recall, a classified “Luis Elizondo's very brief answer to Tucker Carlson's question about whether
approval by the Pentagon to have me go look at the stuff. They the US government is in possession of recovered, crashed, and landed UFO
would not approve that. I don't know what all the numbers technology hardware is 1,000% accurate. My national security NDAs prevent
were, what kind of classification it was, but they would not give me from adding any further comment to this.”
that to me. That's why I wanted AATIP [to get Special Access
Program status] to take a look at it. But they wouldn't give me Maj. Jesse Marcel, Chief Intelligence Officer, Roswell Army Air Field in July
the clearance.” 1947 (1993)
“There was so much [debris at Roswell]. It was scattered over such a vast area
Ralph Blumental and Leslie Kean, NYT article (July 28, 2020) [12 football fields]. We found a piece of metal, about a foot and a half or two
“Numerous associates of the Pentagon program, with high feet wide, about two to three feet long, felt like it had nothing in your hands.
security clearances and decades of involvement with official It wasn't any thicker than the foil out of a pack of cigarettes. The thing that
U.F.O. investigations, told us they were convinced such crashes got me is that you couldn't even bend it, you couldn't dent it, even a sledge
have occurred, based on their access to classified information. hammer would bounce off of it... All I could do was keep my mouth shut.
But the retrieved materials themselves, and any data about Being an intelligence officer I was familiar with every, just about all the
them, are completely off-limits to anyone without clearances materials used in aircraft, and in air travel, this was nothing like that. It was
and a need to know.” not anything from this earth, that I am quite sure of.”
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Appendix II:
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)
Reporting Procedures Law
H.R. 7776: James M. Inhofe National Defense 23
Appendix III:
Davis-Wilson Memo
(with added annotations)
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Davis-Wilson Memo (with added annotations) 1/5
Subcommitte Hearing Record link: https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114761/documents/HHRG-117-IG05-20220517-SD001.pdf
ANNOTATIONS
The character of these notes is very suggestive that there was an audio recording of this 70 minute meeting with
Eric Davis and Tom Wilson. Leaked publicly in 2019, Richard Dolan had commented publicly on seeing pages
from the notes in 2006 and Edgar Mitchell mentioned this Vegas meeting publicly in 2010.
This letter makes up Signed letter from Commander Willard
pages 3-4 of memo Miller shown to Wilson which describes
services that Miller could provide to Davis.
See
annotation
on page 14
Miller’s home is over half a mile from the beach
Richard “Rich” Cohn was AFIO Las Vegas Chapter president
EG&G is a defense contractor
Wilson retired from active service
The ‘ATP Ten’ group meeting notes taken
August 30, 2002. He would
by Oke Shannon from 1985 meeting were
become president of ATK Missile JA - Col. John B.
released by Grant Cameron in Sept 2022
Systems Co. in Nov 2002 Alexander, in 1985
founded informal
Harold “Hal “ Puthoff had been on National Institute for Discovery
group Advanced
Science (NIDS) Science Advisory Board and Eric Davis would later
Theoretical Physics
TW – Tom Wilson RV – Remote Viewing work for his company EarthTech Int’l from Nov 2004 – Nov 2019
Project
DIA is Defense Intelligence Agency. Wilson Eric Davis would later be a government
was director from July 1999 – July 2002. contractor with Top Secret clearance
EWD – Eric Davis
Linda is
Oke’s wife
Adm. Lowell Jacoby led DIA from July 2002 – Nov 2005
Nevada Test
Site (NTS) is
Deptartment Leslie Kean’s article
of Energy Richard L. Cohn detailed the April 1997
reservation Douglas L. Nousen (?) meetings Greer held
ARVs would about 65
suggest reverse miles from
engineering has Las Vegas NNSA – National Nuclear Security Administration
had substantial AFIO – Association of Former Intelligence Officers
progress PACAF – Pacific Air Forces
Davis had been
layed off from
SES – Senior Executive Service, civil service leaders in
NIDS in April
federal government that are equivalent to flag officers
2002
The high security for SAPs can be about an order of magnitude more funding than the rest of the program
CI – Counterintelligence, purpose is to
protect from foreign intelligence threats
C. Richard “Dick” D’Amato was tasked by Senator Robert C. Byrd to look for “black budget”
USAP programs studying UFO phenomena, including anything from Roswell crash
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Davis-Wilson Memo (with added annotations) 5/5
Subcommitte Hearing Record link: https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114761/documents/HHRG-117-IG05-20220517-SD001.pdf
“An intact craft” – not from a crash?
Many crash reports over the decades – where are these craft?
Davis said in 2019 the US government is in possession of
recovered, crashed, and landed UFO technology hardware
Tom Wilson was a Rear Admiral (lower half) at the time. He got Senate
approval for second star in March 1998 and third star April 1999.