Case files / wilson-davis-notes
The Wilson-Davis notes
- When
- Said to record a talk on October 16, 2002; made public April 19, 2019 · 2002 on the timeline
- Where
- Las Vegas, Nevada, according to the notes
- Reported by
- Notes attributed to astrophysicist Eric Davis
- Released
- Put online anonymously in 2019; entered into the House Intelligence hearing record on May 17, 2022
- Status
- Never authenticated; Wilson calls it fiction
The notes read as Eric Davis's record of a private talk with Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson, who had just retired as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. In them, Wilson says that after a 1997 Pentagon briefing on UFOs by Steven Greer, Edgar Mitchell and others, he tracked down a special access program at a defense contractor said to be working on a craft "not of this Earth," and was told he had no need to know.
The pages were uploaded to the image site Imgur on April 19, 2019. Researchers say they came from Edgar Mitchell's papers after his death in 2016, passed on by researcher James Rigney to Grant Cameron, but the people in that chain have not all been named and no original has been produced. What circulates is a 15-page typed copy.
Wilson told reporter Billy Cox in 2020: "It's all fiction. I wouldn't know Eric Davis if he walked in right now." He says details in the notes are wrong, such as Navy officers driving him when he had already left the Navy. Davis has not discussed the contents in public; Hal Puthoff said he would not comment on documents that claim to describe classified programs. Steven Greer told The Black Vault the notes are "substantially correct with only minor errors."
At the May 17, 2022 House Intelligence hearing, Rep. Mike Gallagher had the notes entered into the record and asked Pentagon officials Ronald Moultrie and Scott Bray about them; both said they were not familiar with the document. Being in the record does not make it verified. Michael Shellenberger also quoted it in written testimony at the November 13, 2024 House Oversight hearing.