The Wilson Memo –
“The Wilson Memo” most commonly refers to a document recording a conversation between Dr. Eric Davis and Admiral Thomas Wilson, detailing Wilson’s investigation into a secret UFO program. This “Wilson-Davis Memo” or “Core Secrets Memo” gained attention for allegedly revealing a highly restricted program involving crashed UFOs and alien bodies.
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- This memo is said to be a transcript of a conversation between Dr. Eric Davis and Admiral Thomas Wilson, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
- The conversation reportedly centered around Wilson’s attempt to uncover a secret UFO program within the military, which he ultimately found but was denied access to.
- The document alleges the existence of a highly restricted program involving crashed UFOs and the retrieval and reverse-engineering of alien technology.
- It’s a controversial document, but if authentic, it could be a significant disclosure about UFOs and government secrecy.

- Davis-Wilson Memo – An Introductory Guide – Scribd PDF
“1) Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson met with physicist Eric Davis in 2002 and shared details about his efforts in 1997 to investigate a purported crash retrieval program while serving as Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. 2) Wilson described meeting with a group at a defense contractor that said they were studying recovered alien technology from an intact craft of unknown origin. 3) When Wilson sought further access and oversight of the program, he was threatened with hindered promotion and loss of rank if he continued pursuing the matter.”
- Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson – DocumentCloud.org
- The “Admiral Wilson Leak” – “Core Secrets” Document – An Analysis by John Greenewald, December 13, 2020, Updated:September 7, 2021 – TheBlackVault.com
- The Wilson Leak: An Analysis and Working Theory on the “Core Secrets” UFO Crash Retrieval Documents – The Black Vault Originals (2020)
Interview with Jay / Project Unity (September 2, 2021)
The Wilson/Davis Notes: The Final Act? (September 6, 2021)
- Michael W. Hall, Paranormal Lawyer: Wilson Memo & Disclosure Trust – The Vortex (2022)
- Explore the Recent Mysteries and Controversies about Area 51 – A new documentary about Bob Lazar on Netflix, and purported notes of a meeting with Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, could be lifting the lid on Area 51. Published: Jul 12, 2019 – InterestingEngineering.com
- Eric Davis – Anomaly Archives page
- UAP “Hearing” 20250501 – Understanding UAP – Anomaly Archives page
- UAP “Hearing” 20250501 – Understanding UAP Transcripts – Anomaly Archives page
- Congressional Record: EWD Notes (PDF on alleged meeting with Admiral Wilson)
Jacques Vallee’s journal entries on the memo…
Forbidden Science 5: Pacific Heights – The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2000-2009
June 2001
- pg 76 – At “the personal retreat of Joe Firmage in the Santa Cruz.” In attendance were Jacques, Joe, Marsha, Bernard Haisch, “Hal Puthoff, Eric Davis, Michael Lindemann, Larry Lemke, and Al Holt from NASA.”
- pg 77 – “Hal did talk about his contact with a four-star general who once located a unique research project preserving UFO hardware, but it was never clear what the evidence consisted of (44).” On the same page Vallee states that “Eric Davis retold the story of Zodiac, which involves real people like Jerry Rosenberg, currently at IDA, and Dale Graff, who was part of the remote viewing experiments at Wright-Patterson. Eric has been told there are ten Velobind volumes at Wright-Pat with Roswell data concerning two crashed “Manta ray” shaped craft, recovered bodies, foil type material, and a special study by TRW.” The next paragraph is Vallee sounding like Sean Kirkpatrick in the AARO Historical Report talking about silos and echo chambers.
- NOTE 44 pg 528 – “Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson was born March 4, 1946. He became the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1999 and held this post until 2022.”
- pgs 88-89 – In La Jolla, California for the SSE conference (that Miles Lewis attended) after the “cruise around the bay” (that Miles also attended), Vallee described the following: “Janine and I had a friendly dinner with John Peterson. He Took us to La Valencia in downtown La Jolla, a magical site high above the surf. He told us about the 4-star general who reported visiting a UFO reverse-engineering project conducted by about 150 people in four States, working for a contractor with no line item in any budget. This must be the same story Hal told me (50).”
- NOTE 50 pg 529 – “This ‘secret project’ refers to the statements attributed to Admiral Wilson, later discussed in the famous memo by Dr. Eric Davis. See entry (44).”
- pg 89-90 – Later, when Jacques is back home in San Francisco, he relates getting a call from Jim Westwood, who always has wild and amazing information: “Talking to him is to enter a universe of shadows and deception. His information on the ‘undercurrent’ goes back to World War II…” They have an amazing conversation relevant to other areas of research: Rumors of Nazi saucer tech and alternative hypotheses for cattle mutilations. But the relevant part to the Wilson Memo topic is … Westwood: “Puthoff really wants to find the hardware. Well, I’ve been in this business for 48 years, and I know for a fact there isn’t any.” To which Vallee writes, “This squarely contradicts Petersen’s statements about his own source, that 4-star general.”
September / October 2003
- pgs 197-198 – San Francisco – “According to Bernie Haisch, Hal tried the ‘front door’ approach by writing to Peter Aldridge, sending along his physics papers. He also copied Under Secretary Jacques Gansler. He got no answers. Bernie had confirmation from another source there was a project ‘that was cut off into four parts.’ This source was not shown any object or craft, but he saw the list of people with access, which contained 200 names. As for ‘The General,’ he was retired and working for an oil company when he met with Hal and Joe at the suggestion of John Peterson.” … “A disturbing follow-on conversation at the Duck Club with Peterson, upset that Joe Firmage spoke loosely about his meeting with the general, which happened, he said, seven years ago, about 1996. The purpose of the meeting was to ‘try to get some money’ and was confidential. I had to point out that Joe, Bernie, Hal, and Ed Mitchell, plus the Greer people were all talking about it freely, even mentioning there were ‘one or more secret UFO projects’ under Aldridge. Peterson reported this made no sense; the general in question doesn’t even talk to him anymore. The initial meeting had to do with several black projects, but he never said that he’d seen any hardware and certainly not a craft. Peterson said he there was ‘zero chance’ of my getting information because it was so highly classified. But then, why Firmage? Was someone leading him on with fancy stories? Hal Puthoff confirms that he was at the meeting but that nothing specific was said about seeing hardware, confirming what Peterson told me. The meeting did have to do with money. Joe had plans to raise lots of it, and there was talk of hiring this officer to run the project. What Ed Mitchell refers to is altogether different (the ‘four projects’), and I’m told it comes from a new, ‘impeccable’ source. Hal has been part of a John Peterson semi-official scenario exercise that included role-playing (the press, the government, the military, etc.) in various situations of potential ET contact.” … “Over dinner with Joe Firmage at Chantilly, the following came to light: A second top-level meeting took place in London two years later, in the early summer of 1998. The officer in question, a 4-star general, was Jack Sheehan, then in a senior role at NATO. (Wasn’t he already retired then?) Sheehan is now vice-president at Bechtel, dealing with oil exploration. There was a subsequent meeting, about a year later, where Sheehan volunteered more information to Hal and John. At the first (1996) meeting, Joe and Hal had started the discussion by showing the MJ-12 documents to Sheehan. He vaguely said he ‘had seen something like that,’ then told the story of his boss instructing him to take a flight to a certain facility (presumably a Lockheed site) where he saw and touched a ‘craft.’ He also said he would honor his secrecy oath and not reveal more, but he did acknowledge he found a $9 billion discrepancy in some budgets which led him to uncover the project. He seemed disturbed at the absence of oversight; private industry is completely in charge, he reportedly said. Which raises the question, ‘Could the project(s) in question be using DIA money without oversight or event knowledge,’ which wouldn’t be kosher in purely accounting terms, if not on legal grounds?” Vallee goes on to write that Joe Firmage “believes an Alien contact with the US took place on a ship in 1915. He also thinks the Roswell craft may be a ‘gift’ rather than a disabled vehicle… Here I tend to concur.” So Vallee was thinking of some aspects of the UFO phenomenon as being related to what has since come to be described as “Gifting Fields“, at least as recently as 2003.
- pgs 200-205 – Full Version of The Wilson Memo story with lots more data …
- pg 202- The Admiral Wilson incident; Leslie Kean’s Boston Globe article mentioned him by name and he was ridiculed.
- pg 204 – More on the Admiral Wilson follow up with Greer, Mitchell, and Miller; plus the back story.
- pg 205 – Colonel Blackburn who saw piece of ufo and told of extreme hardship working conditions due to time distortion induced by the craft and that the US has a base on Mars. Perception Technology Corporation citation. Hal on how the govt “keeps secrets.”
- PDF SCAN HERE vallee-fs-journals-vol5-pgs-200-205
- pg 224- James Westwood and cattle mutilation as “related to attempts to calibrate strategic factors of the cold war. … 4 secret iron posts: sources they believe to be unimpeachable, well-connected in the intelligence establishment. They confirm the existence of a hidden project for reverse-engineering of Alien hardware.” 2 of the Iron Posts are Wilson and Sheehan. Also “in early 1950s, Dr. Vannevar Bush supported a strategy that cynically used the public’s expectation of UFOs as a psychological warfare tool.”
- pgs 227-228 – Eric Davis, Wilson, the AFIO and George Bush Sr. Conversation with Bush on UFOs including Nazi tech, Corso, and the Holloman film as real. Also, former DIA senior officer and its UFO collection project, sealed envelope with notes with real source of fake MJ12 docs.