Eric Davis on the Del Rio crash
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| Date | 28 October 2018 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Eric W. Davis, Kevin Randle, Robert Willingham |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 191 |
| Year | 2018 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2018 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 3 |
On Coast to Coast AM in June 2018, physicist Eric Davis told host George Knapp that the 1950s Del Rio, Texas, case was, along with Roswell, a real crash retrieval. The remark was publicised in October 2018 by the Silva Record website.[1][2]
What Davis said
Asked whether recovered material existed to analyse, Davis said that betting on Roswell was a good bet, that Del Rio in the 1950s was another, and that there were others he would not mention because they were still classified and had not been revealed or published. He said recovered material had been analysed, but that diagnostic and materials science were not advanced enough to make sense of it.[1]
The Del Rio story
The story, set near Del Rio or Langtry on the Mexican side of the border, describes an Air Force pilot who saw a crash and later bodies, with the recovery handled by U.S. and Mexican officials.[1]
Criticism
Roswell researcher Kevin Randle noted that the Del Rio story traces only to Robert Willingham, who first told it in 1968, changed its date several times, and claimed a rank and fighter-pilot background that proved false. Randle said Davis's endorsement of it was problematic, and that Davis did not answer his emails.[2]
Assessment
Davis did not explain the basis for his statement, and no evidence supports a Del Rio crash.[2]
People and topics
- Eric W. Davis — Physicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- AAWSAP — The Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
- Roswell — The New Mexico town at the center of the 1947 crash story.
- Kevin Randle — Roswell researcher and author of many books on crash-retrieval claims.
- Robert Willingham — Man who claimed he saw a crashed craft near Del Rio, Texas.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Del Rio crash claim — Del Rio crash claim
On the Timeline
- TTSA–EarthTech contracts (16 August 2018) — To The Stars hires Puthoff's EarthTech to study potentially exotic materials.
- JASON Havana Syndrome study (29 November 2018) — The JASON advisers find no single energy source that explains 'Havana syndrome' symptoms.
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References
- "Dr. Eric Davis confirms Del Rio, Texas UFO event was a successful crash retrieval", Silva Record (Oct 2018) · silvarecord.com · archived copy
- Kevin Randle, "Dr. Davis confirms Del Rio UFO crash?", A Different Perspective (Sept 2018) · kevinrandle.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Eric Davis on Coast to Coast AM, June 2018 (transcript) — UFO Scans · ufoscans.com · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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