New Realities, August 22, 2026

Dr Eric Davis, What the Government Knows About UAPs: Eric Davis on Disclosure, Crash Retrievals, NHI and Skinwalker Ranch

Disclosure Without Giving Away the Technology

Dr. Eric Davis argues that a basic layer of UAP disclosure should occur quickly: governments should acknowledge, in his view, that UAP exist, that non-human intelligence has interacted with humanity for a very long time, that craft have allegedly been recovered internationally, and that some form of contact may have occurred. At the same time, he draws a firm line between acknowledging those claims and releasing sensitive technical information. Davis says details about materials, propulsion, control systems, weapons, or other reverse-engineering findings could create serious national-security risks if foreign adversaries acquired them. He expects resistance not only from government counterintelligence officials but also from private aerospace contractors concerned about intellectual property and classified work. He also argues that part of the government’s reluctance is institutional pride: admitting that UAP can enter military or nuclear airspace with impunity would expose the limits of conventional defense systems. The discussion therefore separates social disclosure from technical declassification.

Classified Briefings, Crash-Retrieval Claims, and Private Industry

Davis says he has already briefed congressional and government personnel in classified settings, including Senate committee staff, the UAP Task Force environment, AARO, and Representative Anna Paulina Luna’s task force. He describes having received information from two separate industry sources connected, in his account, with crash-retrieval programs and says senior figures including Hal Puthoff, Bob Bigelow, and Colm Kelleher also received some of that information. Davis says the reverse-engineering effort had achieved only modest progress in understanding recovered materials and had not solved how the craft were manufactured or powered. He describes reports from Jim Lacatski and an aerospace executive that recovered craft lacked recognizable engines, fuel systems, switches, gauges, or conventional controls. Davis further says some engineers may be compartmentalized so tightly that they receive only pieces of material without being told the alleged origin. He repeatedly distinguishes what he personally saw from what was told to him by classified or industry sources.

How UAP Might Move

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