Document · 16 October 2002

Admiral Wilson memo (EWD notes)

Also known as EWD notes, EW Notes Memo, Wilson-Davis notes, Wilson memo, Wilson-Davis memo, Admiral Wilson

Fifteen pages of notes headed "EWD NOTES: 10/16/02 — Eric Davis Meeting with Adm. Wilson", presented as the physicist Eric Davis's record of a conversation with retired Vice Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, held in a car outside an EG&G building.

According to the notes, after an April 1997 Pentagon briefing by Steven Greer, Edgar Mitchell and Will Miller, Wilson searched for an unacknowledged UFO programme, traced it to one of the top U.S. aerospace contractors and met its programme manager, security director and lawyer. They told him it was a reverse-engineering programme built around an intact craft that was "technology that was not of this Earth — not made by man", with very slow progress and 400–800 people on its access list, but refused to read him in; he says he complained to the Pentagon's special-access oversight group to no avail.

The notes were reportedly found among Edgar Mitchell's papers and circulated online from 2019. In May 2022 Rep. Mike Gallagher had them entered into the record of a House Intelligence hearing, which confirms their provenance, not their accuracy; neither Davis nor Wilson has confirmed them.

Sources: Wilson–Davis notes (House record, 2022)

Facts and claims

documented Entered into the official record of the May 17, 2022 HPSCI open hearing at the request of Rep. Mike Gallagher, who asked unanimous consent (“Without objection,” Chairman Carson). The 15-page notes, headed “EWD NOTES: 10/16/02 — Eric Davis Meeting with Adm. Wilson”, are published as submitted document SD001. Entry into the record confirms provenance, not accuracy. Source: Hearing transcript: HPSCI open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (May 17, 2022)
unverified A 15-page document describing an alleged 2002 conversation between Dr. Eric Davis and retired Vice Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, former DIA director. Source: doc-wilson-davis-notes.pdf
unverified According to the memo, Wilson tried to audit a covert UFO reverse-engineering program after learning of unconventional aerospace hardware, but program “gatekeepers” denied him access. Source: doc-wilson-davis-notes.pdf
unverified Reportedly typed by Davis and found among the private papers of the late Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell. It began circulating widely online in 2019. Source: doc-wilson-davis-notes.pdf

Connected files

Concepts

Crash retrieval & reverse engineering (alleges) — In the notes, Wilson is told by a contractor's program manager “they were a reverse engineering program — something recovered years ago”
Unacknowledged Special Access Program (about)

Hearings & briefings

HPSCI open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (submitted to)

People

Mike Gallagher (submitted by)
Thomas R. Wilson (about)
Eric Davis (attributed to) — Reportedly typed by Davis; unverified
Edgar Mitchell (found among papers of) — Reportedly found among Mitchell's papers after his death; unverified

Events

Admiral Wilson memo begins circulating online (subject of)

Videos

Congressional hearings on military reports of Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAP) - May 17th, 2022 (discussed in)
Eric Davis: “A US President Was Briefed on UFOs!” (discussed in)

Mentioned in this file

Defense Intelligence Agency (Organization)
Department of War (Department of Defense) (Organization)
Steven Greer (Person)
Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the World's Greatest Secret (Book)

Mentioned in videos

Citizen Hearing 2013: Truth, Lies & the Cover-up, Part 1

Mentioned in documents and records

Files

doc-wilson-davis-notes.pdf