Eric Davis on recovered hardware (2019)
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| Date | 30 April 2019 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Eric W. Davis, David Grusch |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 193 |
| Year | 2019 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2019 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
Physicist Eric W. Davis has said in several interviews and briefings that the U.S. government holds hardware from UFOs that crashed or landed. In May 2019, in comments to researcher James Iandoli, he said that if something had landed, it was most likely an intact craft.[1]
Davis
Davis is an astrophysicist who worked for Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science and later as a consultant to the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, working with EarthTech International.[2]
2018 interview
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On Coast to Coast AM on 24 June 2018, with host George Knapp, Davis said the crash-retrieval program was "still there", defended the Pentagon study, and said the government did not possess a "Tic Tac"-type craft. He declined to discuss some cases because they remained classified.[1][2]
2019 briefings
Davis has said that in autumn 2019 he gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff of the Senate Armed Services and Senate Intelligence committees. In November 2019 he said he was not at liberty to confirm or deny any part of the "Wilson notes", an alleged record of a conversation about a crash-retrieval program.[1][3]
2020 New York Times report
In July 2020, The New York Times reported that Davis had briefed a Defense Department agency as recently as March 2020 on retrievals from "off-world vehicles not made on this earth".[1][3]
Assessment
No documents have been released to support these claims. In 2024 the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office said it found no verifiable evidence that the government had recovered extraterrestrial technology.[4]
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.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- David Grusch — Former intelligence officer who testified in 2023 that the U.S. has recovered non-human craft.
- AARO — The Pentagon office set up in 2022 to investigate UAP.
On the Timeline
- Eric Davis on underfunded reverse-engineering (30 April 2019) — Eric Davis says crashes happened and reverse engineering is split into small, underfunded efforts.
- Joseph Ralston on the Wilson notes (5 July 2019) — Gen. Joseph Ralston says he met Vice Adm. Wilson daily but doesn't recall UAP discussions.
See every 2019 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Joe Murgia, "Did the Pentagon prevent Senator Harry Reid from seeing debris from a UFO at Lockheed?", UFO Joe (May 2021) · ufojoe.net · archived copy
- Eric Davis on Coast to Coast AM, 24 June 2018 (transcript) — UFO Scans · ufoscans.com · archived copy
- "Being Eric Davis, part 2", The Observer (Apr 2021) · theobservermagazine.substack.com · archived copy
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Eric W. Davis — career, claims and credibility · ufopedia.pages.dev · archived copy
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