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Wilson-Davis Memo (2002)
2002
The EWD Notes / Wilson-Davis Memo - physicist Eric Davis's typed notes of an Oct 16 2002 meeting in which retired DIA deputy director Adm. Thomas Wilson allegedly described being denied access, in 1997, to a special-access program at a top US aerospace contractor said to hold recovered non-human craft. The notes surfaced from Edgar Mitchell's papers after his 2016 death. A foundational primary document of the crash-retrieval narrative - but a contested one: Wilson has flatly denied the meeting and its contents.
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named on the memo's final page as a lead (Mary Elizabeth Elliot-TRW story) Davis was chasing
Source: EWD Notes / Wilson-Davis memo (Eric Davis, Oct 16 2002) (p.15)
authored these notes of the Oct 16 2002 meeting
Source: EWD Notes / Wilson-Davis memo (Eric Davis, Oct 16 2002)
the notes surfaced from his estate after his 2016 death
Source: EWD Notes / Wilson-Davis memo (Eric Davis, Oct 16 2002); press reports 2017-2019
prefigured the crash-retrieval and denied-access claims David Grusch made public in 2023
Source: analyst note; EWD Notes / Wilson-Davis memo (Eric Davis, Oct 16 2002)
the memo claims Gansler told Wilson (Jan 1998) that UFOs are real but alien abductions are not
Source: EWD Notes / Wilson-Davis memo (Eric Davis, Oct 16 2002)
the retired DIA deputy director whose account the notes record - which he denies
Source: EWD Notes / Wilson-Davis memo (Eric Davis, Oct 16 2002)