Noel Longuemare on the Wilson notes
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Contents 8
| Date | 29 November 2019 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Noel Longuemare, Thomas Wilson, Joseph Ralston |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 195 |
| Year | 2019 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2019 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Noel Longuemare, a senior Pentagon acquisition official in the 1990s, has said he has no knowledge of the events described in the disputed Wilson–Davis notes, which suggest he chaired the group that in 1997 denied Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson access to a secret UFO-related program.[1][2][3]
Longuemare
Longuemare served as Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, and Cox reports that he succeeded Paul Kaminski in 1997. Special access programs, the most sensitive classified defence projects, were overseen by a committee of senior Pentagon officials.[1][2]
The notes
The notes, presented as physicist Eric Davis's record of a 2002 conversation with Wilson, say that in June 1997 a senior review group of the Special Access Program Oversight Committee (SAPOC) met Wilson and sided with a contractor that refused to brief him on a program holding recovered craft, and that the group's chairman warned Wilson to drop the matter. Researchers who compiled a timeline of the notes identify that chairman as purportedly Longuemare. The notes surfaced in 2019 and were entered into the record of a House intelligence subcommittee hearing in May 2022.[3]
His response
Asked by journalist Billy Cox, Longuemare replied by email that he had no knowledge of the Wilson matter. He pointed Cox instead to a high-level senior review group chaired by the Deputy Secretary of Defense that had executive oversight of certain activities, though he was unsure of its exact title; Cox suggested this meant any such decision might have been made by someone else. Longuemare also volunteered praise for the work of the late UFO debunker Philip Klass.[1]
Assessment
His statement, like that of Gen. Joseph Ralston, is often cited by skeptics of the notes, while supporters argue that officials might not recall, or might not be able to discuss, such a matter. Wilson himself has called the notes fiction.[1][2]
People and topics
- Noel Longuemare — Former Pentagon acquisition official who sat on special access program oversight.
- Wilson–Davis notes — Wilson–Davis notes
- Thomas Wilson — Former DIA director named in the Wilson–Davis notes.
- Joseph Ralston — Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs named in the Wilson–Davis notes.
On the Timeline
- Mark Walker and the Navy (2019) (6 September 2019) — Rep. Mark Walker accuses the Navy of withholding UAP information.
- Doty on Serpo believers (2020) (2 February 2020) — Richard Doty allegedly says some DIA members believe parts of the SERPO 'exchange' rumor.
See every 2019 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Billy Cox, "Reviving the W-D memo", Life in Jonestown (Sep 2024) · lifeinjonestown.substack.com · archived copy
- Billy Cox, "Core Secrets UFO memo: 'It's all fiction,' says former DIA director Thomas Wilson", UFO Chronicles (Jun 2020) · theufochronicles.com · archived copy
- "Davis–Wilson memo timeline", daviswilsonmemo.github.io · daviswilsonmemo.github.io · archived copy
- not-devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com · not-devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com · archived copy
- documents2.theblackvault.com · documents2.theblackvault.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Thomas R. Wilson — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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