Joe
Murgia, aka UFOJoe, sent me a comment about my posting about Dr. Eric Davis and
his mention of the Del Rio UFO crash. We had a brief email exchange, and I
asked him to talk about this on the radio show/podcast version of the blog. We
didn’t limit the conversation to the fifteen pages that were notes of an
alleged meeting between Admiral Thomas Wilson and Dr. Davis but did explore
related topics. You can listen to the conversation here:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40941141
Joe
had written a 24,000-blog posting about the meeting and his investigation into
it. This document provided a good analysis of what Joe Murgia
allegedly happened. The
trouble was, as we worked our way through it, we learned, or rather, I learned,
that the fifteen pages of notes surfaced in the UFO related papers of NASA
astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell. It wasn’t until Mitchell’s papers were being
reviewed after his death that the tale of this meeting with Admiral Wilson was
exposed. The results of the meeting, and the point of the fifteen pages of
notes was that the US had a captured (retrieved?) alien craft. You can read his
posting, in four parts, here:
http://www.ufojoe.net/wilsondavis1
http://www.ufojoe.net/wilsondavis2
http://www.ufojoe.net/wilsondavis3
http://www.ufojoe.net/wilsondavis4
When
all was said and done, and after having read, carefully, that 24,000-word
treatise on the meeting, I found no solid evidence. Admiral Wilson denied,
repeatedly and vehemently, the meeting had taken place and Dr. Davis, when
asked about it, said, “No comment.”
Oh,
there was a meeting with Admiral Wilson but it wasn’t the one referenced in those
fifteen pages of notes. This one took place in the Pentagon, in Wilson’s
office, and didn’t seem to have the same surprising outcome. In other words, it
was only a discussion about UFOs that didn’t seem to turn into anything other
than a discussion about UFOs. I believe the meeting was arranged because Edgar
Mitchell was involved and for no other reason. Who wouldn’t want to sit down
with the sixth man to walk on the moon?
This
discussion seemed to provide little in the way of illumination but certainly
demonstrated the problem with UFO research and dealing with bureaucrats (not
that I would consider Admiral Wilson as a bureaucrat).
Anyway,
we do learn about the depth of some research into specific UFO related
questions. A lot of people talking about what they claim to know, but with
nothing that would be considered hard evidence and too many unnamed sources.
Next
week, I’ll be talking with Robert Sheaffer about Phil Klass and Stan Friedman
and their contributions to UFO research. Or maybe I should say their attempts
to limit the research to what they believed. This interview was originally
scheduled for August 12, but a storm took down both the power grid and the
Internet around here, so I had to postpone. I’m finally able to get this all
put back together. If you have questions, append them in the comments section
and I’ll do my best to get them answered.
Great interview, Kevin. I read the blogs and found the part where Dr Davis claims Del Rio is a good case along with Roswell. When I clicked on that part I was taken to a book about the now infamous hoax written over ten years ago on Amazon.
ReplyDeleteI do think Dr Davis needs to be interviewed here so he can clear a few things up. Otherwise, I agree with you that this whole story is much ado about nothing. I'm beginning to wonder if we really have anything to disclose.