“So just to confirm, you’re not aware of any technology or engineering resources that have been focused on these efforts besides what we’ve mentioned today …” — Rep. Mike Gallager, 5/17/22
Former Defense Intelligence Agency director Thomas Wilson watched a little of Tuesday’s UFO hearings in Congress but “didn’t stick with it because I had more important things to do.” He tuned into opening remarks from Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie, and Scott Bray, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. He watched them field a few questions from lawmakers before turning to more important things.
Wilson doesn’t dismiss the idea of true unknowns testing American airspace. “But most of what I heard had either been released before, or I’d seen a lot of it before,” said the retired admiral from his home in Virginia.
What Wilson found out after he’d turned it off was arguably the biggest surprise of the historic 90-minute session. That’s when, two-thirds of the way through the testimony, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) asked Moultrie if he was “aware of a document . . . sometimes called the Admiral Wilson memo, or the EW notes memo.”
Also referred to as the Core Secrets or Smoking Gun memo by advocates of its authenticity, the notes suggest at least one unnamed defense contractor is holding UFO material so tightly, not even America’s elite brass have access. Allegedly written by physicist Eric Davis during a 2002 interview with the just-retired admiral, the controversial 15 pages describe an interview in which Wilson confides his frustration over being denied a security clearance in 1997 to see what the corporate world was hiding. Davis has never defended nor disavowed the document, although he has participated in closed-door meetings with lawmakers about his knowledge of UFOs. Wilson has consistently called the documents “bogus.”
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