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-The [[Wilson-Davis Memo]], also known as the "Wilson/Davis document," is a 13-page document that purports to be a summary of a 2002 conversation between astrophysicist [[Eric Davis]] and Vice Admiral [[Thomas R. Wilson]], who was then the Director of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] (DIA). The memo details Admiral Wilson's alleged discovery of and subsequent denial of access to a deeply hidden [[U.S. government]] program that was reverse-engineering technology recovered from crashed [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP).[^1]
+The [[Wilson-Davis Memo]], also known as the "Wilson/Davis document," is a 13-page document that purports to be a summary of a 2002 conversation between astrophysicist [[Eric Davis]] and Vice Admiral [[Thomas R. Wilson]], who was then the Director of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] (DIA). The memo details Admiral Wilson's alleged discovery of and subsequent denial of access to a deeply hidden [[United States|U.S. government]] program that was reverse-engineering technology recovered from crashed [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP).[^1]
 
 ### The Memo's Content
 
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 ### Elizondo's account
 
-[[Luis Elizondo]] wrote in 2024 that he met [[Eric Davis]], "an astrophysicist with high-level national security clearances" who "worked with Hal as a contractor for the program," "much later" than his first meetings with [[Hal Puthoff]] at the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]], that he was told Davis "even provided the Presidential Daily Briefing," and that Davis "has become best known in UAP circles as the alleged author of the legendary Wilson/Davis memo."[^9] Elizondo's version of its origin is that "in the late 1990s" Davis "met and chatted up" Vice Admiral [[Thomas R. Wilson]], whom he describes as Director of Intelligence (J2) for the [[Joint Staff]], and wrote "a thirteen-page summary" of the talk, which he "confidentially shared" with a small group; that Puthoff and Davis gave a copy to the astronaut [[Edgar Mitchell]]; and that after Mitchell's death "his safe was opened and the memo was found and circulated publicly by his estate."[^9] A footnote in the book lists Wilson's other posts as Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support, Vice Director of Intelligence for the Joint Staff and Director of Intelligence for [[United States Atlantic Command]], and states that he later became the thirteenth Director of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]].[^9] The leaked document is headed "EWD NOTES 10/16/02" and runs to fifteen pages (see above and below); Elizondo gives the length as thirteen pages and the period as the late 1990s.
+Luis Elizondo wrote in 2024 that he met Eric Davis, "an astrophysicist with high-level national security clearances" who "worked with Hal as a contractor for the program," "much later" than his first meetings with Hal Puthoff at the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]], that he was told Davis "even provided the Presidential Daily Briefing," and that Davis "has become best known in UAP circles as the alleged author of the legendary Wilson/Davis memo."[^9] Elizondo's version of its origin is that "in the late 1990s" Davis "met and chatted up" Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, whom he describes as Director of Intelligence (J2) for the Joint Staff, and wrote "a thirteen-page summary" of the talk, which he "confidentially shared" with a small group; that Puthoff and Davis gave a copy to the astronaut [[Edgar Mitchell]]; and that after Mitchell's death "his safe was opened and the memo was found and circulated publicly by his estate."[^9] A footnote in the book lists Wilson's other posts as Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support, Vice Director of Intelligence for the Joint Staff and Director of Intelligence for [[United States Atlantic Command]], and states that he later became the thirteenth Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.[^9] The leaked document is headed "EWD NOTES 10/16/02" and runs to fifteen pages (see above and below); Elizondo gives the length as thirteen pages and the period as the late 1990s.
 
-Elizondo wrote that Wilson, "curious about certain black program line items in the budgets that crossed his desk," obtained a meeting with "representatives of a certain aerospace corporation" and "their attorney," learned that the contractor belonged to a program for "retrieving and reverse-engineering crashed advanced vehicles of unknown origin," and was told by the attorney that continued questions "could get him fired and cause him to lose his pension"; that the admiral "backed down," confided the encounter to Davis and "never spoke of it again, even after the memo leaked."[^9] He wrote that he learned the larger program "is referred to as the Legacy Program," involving "various elements of the US government and US defense contractors," and described the memo as "terrifying on many levels" because, in his words, materials held by contractors "become private property" after the officials who knew of them retire or die.[^9] Wilson's own statements to the reporter [[Billy Cox]] in 2008 ("Never") and in 2020 ("It's all fiction") are quoted above.
+Elizondo wrote that Wilson, "curious about certain black program line items in the budgets that crossed his desk," obtained a meeting with "representatives of a certain aerospace corporation" and "their attorney," learned that the contractor belonged to a program for "retrieving and reverse-engineering crashed advanced vehicles of unknown origin," and was told by the attorney that continued questions "could get him fired and cause him to lose his pension"; that the admiral "backed down," confided the encounter to Davis and "never spoke of it again, even after the memo leaked."[^9] He wrote that he learned the larger program "is referred to as the Legacy Program," involving "various elements of the US government and US defense contractors," and described the memo as "terrifying on many levels" because, in his words, materials held by contractors "become private property" after the officials who knew of them retire or die.[^9] Wilson's own statements to the reporter Billy Cox in 2008 ("Never") and in 2020 ("It's all fiction") are quoted above.
 
 Elizondo wrote that Davis afterward briefed Department of Defense agencies and staff members of the [[Senate Armed Services Committee]] and the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]], and attended "several senior-level meetings, to which I was invited, with various branches of the US military," at which Davis "detailed the Legacy Program's long-running efforts involving UAP"; he wrote that Davis told a [[New York Times]] reporter in 2020 that the government possessed "off-world vehicles not made on this earth."[^9] He wrote that the memo "would finally gain more attention from the media and the public" in the spring of 2022 when it "was submitted into the Congressional Record" during public hearings, and, in a later chapter, that at the hearing of May 2022, which he says lasted ninety minutes, "Congressman Mike Gallagher introduced the Wilson/Davis memo, mentioned earlier, into the Congressional Record on national television."[^9][^11] The book's appendix of web references lists the memo at a congress.gov file, https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114761/documents/HHRG-117-IG05-20220517-SD001.pdf.[^12]