Eric W. Davis
Eric W. Davis is an American astrophysicist who works on advanced propulsion concepts and the frontier areas of physics. On the UFO/UAP topic, he is known for organizing studies for the AAWSAP program, for the Wilson memo leaked in 2019, and for his claims about vehicles not made on Earth.
Eric W. Davis is an American astrophysicist who earned his doctorate at the University of Arizona. For much of his career he worked on advanced propulsion theories, spacetime manipulation and other concepts at the frontier of physics, among other places at Hal Puthoff's Austin research company, Earth Tech International, where he worked as a senior scientist. He later also worked at the defense company the Aerospace Corporation.
Career and connection to the UFO topic
In 2004, the US Air Force Research Laboratory commissioned a study from him on the physics of teleportation for $25,000. Alongside wormholes and quantum teleportation, the report also discussed so-called psychic teleportation, and it took seriously non-peer-reviewed Chinese reports claiming that children with special abilities had transported objects through solid walls.
From 2007, Davis worked as a subcontractor and later as a consultant for the Pentagon's UAP program. By his own account, as an employee of Robert Bigelow's company BAASS, he organized the production of the 38 studies that the company prepared under the AAWSAP program overseen by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and he himself wrote one of them, the one on traversable wormholes.
What he claims
The New York Times reported in July 2020 that Davis had briefed staff of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees in October 2019, and a Defense Department agency at a classified briefing in March 2020, about materials retrieved from vehicles not made on Earth. Davis told the paper that the origin of some of the examined materials could not be identified, and that he had concluded that we could not make them ourselves.
In 2019, a document leaked that allegedly contains Davis's notes on a 2002 conversation with retired Admiral Thomas Wilson, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. According to the notes, Wilson said he had not been granted access to a secret program dealing with the wreckage of alien craft. Wilson called the whole thing a fabrication and said he would not even recognize Davis. Davis has not commented on the authenticity of the document, and its origin remains unclear to this day.
Official finding and skeptical view
According to the official finding of the Pentagon and AARO, there is no evidence that any UAP case is linked to extraterrestrial technology, or that the US government is hiding alien craft. According to AARO's 2024 historical report, such claims largely originate from a small group whose members regularly worked with one another, which was connected to the AAWSAP/AATIP program and to BAASS's paranormal research, and whose members repeated the claims by citing one another but provided no evidence. Skeptics consider Davis's work speculative and criticize the teleportation study for its uncritical treatment of reports about psychic phenomena.
Sources
- New York Times-cikk Davis tájékoztatóiról – összefoglaló és kritika (Metabunk)
- The Black Vault: The „Admiral Wilson Leak” – An Analysis
- The Black Vault: Teleportation Physics Study – Air Force Research Laboratory, 2004. augusztus
- GlobalSecurity.org: Military examines „beaming up” data, people (2005)
- The Black Vault: The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) Documentation
- AARO: Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with UAP, Volume I (2024)