"In an interesting turn of events, physicist Dr. Eric Davis seems to have confirmed his authorship of the Wilson/Davis memo in a recent Facebook post. The memo, for those of you who may not recall, details a 2002 meeting between Davis and former Defense Intelligence Agency director Admiral Thomas Wilson regarding classified UFO programs and Wilson’s inability to gain access to them.

According to a screenshot shared on Reddit, Davis wrote in a private Facebook group: “our meeting” and “my interview notes,” clearly referring to the memo. This marks a definite shift from Davis’s previous stance of refusing to acknowledge authorship of the document. Although, to be fair, he came extremely close on one or two previous occasions.

The post also included criticism of those who leaked the memo, with Davis calling it “unethical” for the heirs of astronaut Edgar Mitchell to release the document. He expressed frustration that his “interview notes” were made public without his consent. I don’t think Davis has a perfect understanding of how the notes were released, but why should he be expected to? He is rather tough on Grant Cameron here, in my opinion.

He gets the main elements right: the notes came from Edgar Mitchell’s estate. What I learned from James Rigney that the children of Dr. Mitchell were going to destroy these and many other notes but a close friend of Mitchell (someone described almost like a son to him) begged to keep some of them and was allowed to do so. He returned to Australia where he lived, soon shared them with fellow Australian James Rigney, who began the process of showing them to other parties. It was James who showed them to Grant Cameron in late 2018. I received them anonymously in April 2019. Then, in early June, I made the decision to publicize them on my Youtube Channel after I had seen the beginnings of discussion about them in a private email chain. I say this just for the sake of clarification.

And for the record, although neither Grant Cameron or I had wanted to be the person to leak the document to the world, I had already privately decided that I would do it if it didn’t happen within a few months. I hadn’t made a deadline, but I was decided on making sure they would get out one way or another. It turns out I didn’t have to be the one, although I was the first to publicize them in a significant way.

As many people recall, Admiral Wilson has consistently denied the meeting described in the memo ever took place, a claim that quite a few journalists and researchers seemed content to take at face value.

I think it’s fair to say that any legitimate doubts about this memo have long since ceased to have any hold over most people who have looked into it. It seems that this last statement is the final nail in the coffin of the doubters."

Top UFO/Extraterrestrial subject historian-Richard Dolan Sept 2, 2024

amazing chain of custody. thanks for putting this out!

A lot of the current figures in disclosure circles are playing a secret society game - create a social pyramid with a figure at the top, hand out breadcrumbs and tease access to an inner circle. It's good for managed disclosure, bad for creating a decent system for humans to prosper in.

At some point soon we have to move beyond these benevolent gatekeepers who have kept everything at or behind where disclosure was in the 1960s. And the gatekeepers who tried to keep all efforts contained into a congressional bill then fight over and sabotage the bill can be remembered as very flawed people who were not up to the task before them.