Wilson-Davis Memo

October 16, 2002 — Unknown / Private

Overview

The Wilson-Davis memo (also called the Wilson-Davis notes) is a set of handwritten and typed notes allegedly documenting a private meeting on October 16, 2002, between Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson (former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency) and Dr. Eric W. Davis (physicist with the National Institute for Discovery Science and later affiliated with Aerospace Corporation and the Pentagon's AATIP program).

Content

The notes describe Admiral Wilson's alleged discovery, while serving as DIA Director, of a deeply classified special access program involving the retrieval and reverse-engineering of technology "not of this Earth." When Wilson attempted to access the program, he was reportedly denied entry by its civilian corporate managers and warned not to pursue the matter further.

Provenance

The documents surfaced publicly in 2019 when they were found among the papers of the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who had donated his archives to a library. Dr. Davis has neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the notes. Admiral Wilson initially denied the meeting took place but has since declined further comment.

Significance

If authentic, the Wilson-Davis memo represents evidence that a classified UFO crash retrieval program exists outside normal government oversight, that a DIA Director was denied access to it, and that private aerospace corporations manage recovered non-human technology. These claims align closely with David Grusch's later Congressional testimony about illegally concealed crash retrieval programs. The memo remains unverified but is considered one of the most significant leaked documents in modern UAP research.