Edgar Mitchell's Emails

Edgar Mitchell's Emails
Edgar Mitchell Weighs in on the Admiral Wilson’s 2008 Denial:
“Sounds like he has joined the other side.”

PROLOGUE

Discussions about “The Wilson/Davis Leak” are again very popular across the social media groups dealing with UFOs. 15-page document revolves around the 2002 meeting notes in Las Vegas between Dr. Eric W. Davis and Thomas R. Wilson. Notes were allegedly written by Dr. Davis after the fact. Discussed topic: Pentagon briefing from April 1997 where Rear Admiral Thomas Ray Wilson (at that time the Vice Director of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, later promoted to Vice Admiral and Director of DIA), met with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Commander Willard Miller (ret.) and activist Steven Greer. As claimed, Admiral Wilson was briefed by them about hidden UFO programs. After the briefing, he allegedly located UFO SAP (Special Access Program), but the contractor and higher Pentagon authorities denied him full access that he believed his position warranted. The document leaked back in April 2019 over image sharing platform Imgur and was linked via two Reddit communities. Besides Davis’ notes, it also contains attached letter from CDR Will Miller. Latest debates about the document’s authenticity were ignited thanks to June 15, 2020 article by Billy Cox and Joe Murgia’s investigative series about the affair. For a deeper insight into involved parties and events, readers are encouraged to read Joe’s series before this companion piece.

CONFLICTING CLAIMS

Billy Cox’s article covers Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson (ret.) latest denial about his subsequent search for the UFO program. He also described the leaked document as a “fiction”.

Another main participant – Dr. Eric W. Davis – has commented the affair several times to different researchers with “no comment”.

CDR Will Miller (ret.) stated to researchers Frank Stalter and Chant Hannah for the UFO News Network Sunday podcast (published on June 11, 2019) that his letter appeared to him like a cut and paste job. In the June 2020 interview with Joe Murgia, Miller was interviewed again. Asked if the letter was fake, he replied that he has no recollection of it. Joe then asked what parts of the letter are problematic or possibly cut and paste job. However, Miller didn’t want to discuss further that particular topic.

On June 12, 2019, Dr. Hal Puthoff stated to researcher Richard Dolan that “it is in the best interest of the USG . . . not to comment on any documents that purport to describe classified USG programs or information.”

On June 23, 2019, prominent Australian researcher Keith Basterfield revealed on his blog via source James Rigney that “The Wilson/Davis Leak” came from the files of the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell.

In the July 11, 2019 article by Billy Cox, Oke Shannon stated that he doesn’t “know the provenance of that purported document”. He added: “I don’t know whether it’s real or not real. Let’s just leave it at the fact that I do know both of these gentlemen. Tom Wilson is an honorable man. And if this has embarrassed Tom Wilson, I am really sorry.” Several secondary parties mentioned in the document were also contacted by Billy Cox in series of articles. Neither of them could confirm alleged events or claims.

On August 24, 2019, Richard Dolan published an interview with Dr. Christopher (Kit) Green on the Wilson leak. Kit stated he has “no authority to confirm that it is a legitimate memo”. He adds: “The fact that I’ve seen it, the fact that I think one thing doesn’t give me the authority to declare its provenance as legitimate. I can’t do that so I won’t say that.”

During November 30, 2019 lecture (published on June 4 2020), prominent Australian researcher Bill Chalker also stated that it was determined the document came from “the papers of the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell” and it “appears to be legitimate”.

In the November 2019 interview with Steven Greenstreet for the NY Post (which awaits to be published in the near future), Dr. Davis also confirmed that the noted document was leaked from the estate of late astronaut Edgar Mitchell.

During UFO Denmark video podcast from March 28 2020, respected filmmaker James Fox stated that he was able to confirm through his contacts that document probably did come from Edgar’s files.

On June 22, 2020, during Mystery Wire podcast, investigative reporter George Knapp also stepped forward and stated he is fairly certain that the leak is an “accurate representation” of the 2002 meeting. Subsequently he gave an expanded statement to Joe Murgia.

In the July 5, 2020 story on Joe’s blog, Dr. Bob McGwier claims that during his professional career, he saw the email where Admiral Wilson confirmed details of meeting with Dr. Davis.

However, all these statements are confronted with the energetic denial from the main participant himself – Admiral Thomas R. Wilson – which is the main catalyst for the current controversy. However, this is not the first Wilson’s denial. Several researchers previously went through the similar algorithm of debates and history is now repeated again. Although latest Wilson’s denial is mostly focused towards the “leaked document”, he also denied once again the alleged SAP search.

First denial about SAP search was given to researcher Richard Dolan back in 2006. Then it was given on the record to journalist Billy Cox in an earlier article from August 2008. Wilson denied it for the third time to my source in 2009 (this written denial was never released publicly).

There is a whole story behind the 2008 denial. At the time, journalist Billy Cox, Grant Cameron and I were working on this important story. Everything started when I wanted to replicate Richard Dolan’s steps to locate Wilson’s contact data so he could be contacted on the record for a media outlet. On July 28 2008, I was able to locate contact data of Admiral Wilson. I immediately suggested to Grant Cameron that we should forward it to Billy Cox for a potential article on the Pentagon 1997 briefing. History of the entire affair was mutually collected and shared. The outcome was the historic August 06 2008 article by Billy Cox: "Admiral Never Looked for UFO Data". At the time I was also running private and very active mailing list with leading UFO researchers. I also continued to collect all media items on this story. Email traffic was particularly high during that period and many messages were exchanged regarding Wilson’s 2008 denial (the same pattern is happening now for the new generation via social media with the latest 2020 denial). One sample of those 2008 messages was published on my media index page.

Additional drama happened behind the scenes too, but I have decided to withhold those messages for the distant future. Important participant of the story – astronaut Edgar Mitchell – also commented Wilson’s denial to researchers Bozidar Kemic and David Haith through several emails chains in 2008. Those were later shared on my list as a summary. Recently I obtained permission to publish relevant raw emails from parties involved in those discussions. Although I will not go into authenticity debate with this piece, I hope this additional overview will be helpful for new researchers who just recently started to read on the entire affair. I will continue to preserve the historic record so others could better understand the chronological spectrum of relevant events.

BOZIDAR KEMIC AND EDGAR MITCHELL

Croatian physicist Bozidar Kemic organized Mitchell’s 2007 appearance on the Croatian Public Television. He reached out to Mitchell again in 2008, one day after Wilson’s denial to Billy Cox. This is the screenshot of his original email.

Mitchell replied the same day.

DAVID HAITH AND EDGAR MITCHELL

Another email chain comes from the retired UK journalist and researcher David Haith – good colleague with whom I am corresponding for almost 2 decades. Haith also reached out to Mitchell after the Wilson’s 2008 denial. Mitchell replied to him on August 10 2008, pointing to the 2000 Jane’Defense Weekly article on SAPs (Special Access Program).

Referenced Jane’Defense Weekly article link is now obsolete, but the mirror link is still available via archive.org. Back on August 01, 2019, I tried to help new researchers with additional leads, so I also tweeted it at the time.

David also sent another email to Edgar.

Mitchell replied the same day.

On the next day - August 11, 2008 - Haith summarized his entire email chain in the form of a short article. The article includes main highlights from the email chains noted above. Two additional points (not presented in previous screenshots) are emphasized in yellow. Unfortunately, it seems that particular sub-chain of raw emails has been lost, but thanks to Haith’s summary below, they are preserved in this form.

During January 2009, one researcher reached out to me and asked me for my summary of the Wilson affair up to that point. I have wrote my overview on January 29 2009, which was also sent to my private email list. The next day researcher Robert Morningstar forwarded my email to Edgar Mitchell. Ed wrote back the same day stating “it is very accurate”.

To be continued…

Giuliano Marinkovic
July 05 2020
https://omnitalkradio.weebly.com/pentagon-ufo-briefing.html



ALL ARTICLES ON THE WILSON LEAK

June 6, 2020 - The Wilson Leak and the NIDS Connection

July 5, 2020 - Edgar Mitchell's Emails

July 8, 2020 - Encounter in Las Vegas

July 11. 2020 - Independent Corroboration

July 22. 2020 - Subtle Wilson Leak References Found in Vallee’s Novel

August 2, 2020 - Talking with Wilson...

October 7, 2020 - Edgar Mitchell on Audio: "One of my other colleagues encountered this admiral in Las Vegas."

​August 9, 2021 - Wilson vs Shannon

​May 24, 2022 - The Wilson/Davis Notes Back in the Forefront / Brandon Fugal's Tweets on W/D Notes

June 5, 2022 - Dr. John Alexander Replies to Jonathan Davies on the Wilson/Davis Notes...