Astrophysicist and UAP Legacy Program insider Eric Davis’s slide deck from Contact in the Desert June 2026 about the reality of UAP and NHI
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Over the past couple of days, astrophysicist and Legacy Program insider Eric Davis had a couple of interviews released, one on GAIA and then one last one that featured his Contact In the Desert presentation on our current insider understanding of NHI and UAP. Via a couple of sources, I got my hands on and have been given permission to publish Davis’s slides from his CITD presentation, slides handed over by Davis himself.
It may not be a lot of new stuff for those of us who have diligently been following this topic, but I do find it highly interesting that Davis is going beyond his nuts-and-bolts approach and openly talking about the spiritual and non-corporeal aspects of The Phenomenon.
Since the beginning of the year, one thing I started tracking was the connections between this topic and the University of Arizona at Tucson, Davis’s alma mater. Many notable figures in this field, both openly discussed and not-so-much quite yet, are alumni of the university. Its observatory is officially licensed to the Vatican.
I just posted last night about Davis and the various U of AZ at Tucson threads I’ve been pulling but thought I would start a new post so it didn’t get buried in the social media feeds and had fresh eyes on it.
You can find that four-part thread here:
Here’s Eric Davis’s talk with GAIA:
Here’s his Contact In the Desert presentation:
Here’s his recent interview with Matt Ford on the Good Trouble Show:
Davis was most-known in this field for the Wilson-Davis memo in which it was purported that he met with a military insider who provided him a story about being blocked from the UAP Legacy Program. Since then, Davis has come forward and over time, like others in this field, has increasingly revealed more and more about what he was privy to inside The Program. He currently works for Earthtech with Hal Puthoff in Austin exploring advanced propulsion systems and is a part of the first federally-funded UAP studies program at University of Albany NY with physicists and UAP researchers Matthew Szydagis and Kevin Knuth. Every interview those two have done is absolutely essential.
UAlbany Receives Major Gift to Advance Scientific Research on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
ALBANY, N.Y. (Nov. 5, 2025) — The University at Albany has received a transformational endowment gift from longtime businessman Tony Gorman to support cutting-edge physics research on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). Gorman was one of the principal owners of The Gorman Group, a third-generation, family-owned highway construction and materials company.
“This extraordinary generosity allows UAlbany to strengthen its role as one of the few universities worldwide leading academic research into UAPs,” said Fardin Sanai, vice president for university advancement. “We are grateful to Tony Gorman for his vision and commitment, and to our faculty for advancing scholarship in this emerging area.”
The gift was inspired after Gorman watched a local news story about a team of UAlbany physicists applying rigorous scientific methods to document and analyze UAPs.
“I have always been curious about UAPs and what could possibly be out there,” said Gorman. “When I saw the UAP research the UAlbany team is doing, I wanted to learn more. After talking with the researchers, I gained so much respect for their work. Right there, I knew I wanted to get involved.”
With the goals of adding to the field’s scholarship and devising rigorous and repeatable methods of detection and analysis, Professor Kevin Knuth and associate professors Matthew Szydagis and Cecilia Levy deployed weather radar data, radiation detectors and artificial intelligence during a 2021 field expedition in Laguna Beach, California. Their findings, previously reported, were published in the peer-reviewed journal Progress in Aerospace Sciences in June 2025. Knuth and Szydagis also collaborated on a second 2025 paper, entitled “The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena.”
“Like the public, we in the research community are also fascinated by what else or who else is potentially in the universe. With Tony’s generous support, we can create a long-term foundation for scientific rigor, the true path to discovery,” said Knuth. “Our aim is to dispel common misconceptions about UAP and bring clarity and credibility to one of science’s most fascinating questions. This philanthropic support comes at an opportune time, as the physics department’s UAP research base grows, with the recent addition of physicist Dr. Eric W. Davis as visiting adjunct faculty. Dr. Davis has cooperated with recent congressional UAP hearings.”
Launching UAPx: UAlbany Project X
The financial gift also makes possible the launch of UAlbany Project X (UAPx), a new academic collaboration focused solely on advancing rigorous science in the study of UAPs/UFOs. UAPx continues the mission of a federal non-profit of the same name, co-founded by Navy veterans Kevin Day and Gary Voorhis to gather and maintain quality data on UAPs. UAPx now joins an elite cluster of academic collaborations at universities around the world, including in Sweden, in Germany, and at Harvard in the U.S., focused on such work.
Knuth and Szydagis were co-authors on the paper ‘The new science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP)’ alongside Ryan Graves, Garry Nolan, Richard Dolan, and others, and can be found here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042125000235?dgcid=coauthor
Below are the 57 slides that Eric Davis presented at CITD. I have to take the chance to point out that Robert Bigelow’s NIDS was initially finding its footing from 1995-July 1996, as pointed out by Davis:
First generation of professional scientific staff resigned or were fired for various reasons from 1995 up until early July 1996.
Second generation of professional scientific staff was hired in mid the longest tenure with an outstanding record of success.
Sept. 1996 was when Maria Farmer first came forward to accuse Epstein of sexual abuse; when Congress was studying WWII money that the Nazis had stolen from the Jews and had funneled to US banks through Swiss banks; and also when the Naval Research Laboratory began destroying its records at officially noted by the National Archives:
Now on to the slides without any further commentary:
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