Wilson-Davis Memo
Date
October 16, 2002
Document Type
Intelligence Report
Pages
15
Authentication
Leaked - DisputedIssuing Authority
Unknown - attributed to Dr. Eric W. Davis (EarthTech International)
Summary
A 15-page document attributed to physicist Eric Davis recording a 2002 meeting with Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson (former Director of DIA) in a Las Vegas parking lot. Per the document, Wilson described being denied access to a private aerospace contractor he believed was running a UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program. When Wilson attempted to exercise his oversight authority as a senior intelligence official, he was told by the contractor's legal team that he did not have a 'need to know.' The document is arguably the most significant leaked UAP record in existence - if authentic, it describes a private corporate program operating beyond congressional oversight.
Significance
If authentic, the Wilson-Davis Memo describes the precise mechanism of UAP program concealment cited by David Grusch in his 2023 congressional testimony: private aerospace contractors operating reverse engineering programs with oversight exemptions that deny access even to senior intelligence officials. This would confirm Grusch's claim about the 'shell game' used to hide programs from congressional oversight. Davis has not explicitly denied the memo's accuracy in subsequent public statements.