Paper-Trail of Gov Research Leads To A Working UFO... and Eric Davis

In this original report, I uncover the connection between research done by Manhattan Project scientists in the 50's and a functioning prototype of a UFO inspired craft. Eric Davis was on the project

May 24, 2025

Strike “almost certainly worked on Operation Dominic,” add “possibly consulted on”

Add paragraph on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement

UFOs have attracted the interest of the public for a long time. To learn there's another intelligent species even more advanced than us would be monumental. What would they be like? What does this mean about our own origins? Does this change our views about an after life? There are endless avenues of inquiry. One of the most important and concrete areas of interest would have to be related to the potential technology.

If technology exists that can perform in ways that have been recorded by scientific instruments, trained observers like pilots and scientists and regular experiencers it's not just 10 or 20 years more advanced than what’s publicly available. Massive objects with no wings, jets or propeller going from hovering stationary in the air to accelerating at impressive speeds such as the well documented Stephenville Texas UFO incident. Imagine what we can learn from the technology if someone had years to master branches of science that we've only begun to research.

I also find it's one of the most straight forward areas of research and requires the least amount of baseless speculation compared to more sensational areas of research related different species of beings and their agendas. If anyone is studying the technology I just mentioned there's going to be a paper trail somewhere. You'd have to bring in scientists to perform analysis. The money for all of this will have to come from somewhere.

This article will focuses on thread of well documented UFO research that starts with a Manhattan Project scientists career at Los Alamos National Lab. It leads to a witness of UFO whistleblower David Grusch. In 2023 the Air Force intelligence officer went public with the findings of a years long investigation ordered by congress.

Grusch collected evidence from dozens of people who have 1st hand knowledge of and or working in UFO crash retrieval programs. Eric Davis is a witness that David Grusch brought to the Inspectors General for the Intelligence community and the DoD as part of his official complaint about these illegal unauthorized programs.

Years before the two met, Eric Davis cited that UFO researching Manhattan Project scientist in a report related to a laser propulsion project that included a functional prototype of what appears to be a reverse engineered craft that's identical to an acorn shaped UFO, and plans to create literal flying disk. Test videos of this laser propelled Lightcraft featuring John Myrabo, NASA and Air Force sponsored scientist have been on YouTube for at least 16 years.

James Tuck

As part of the Manhattan Project, The UK sent some of their best scientists to work on the nuclear bomb. James Tuck, a nuclear scientist who was one of Churchills private science advisor, was on the British team for the Manhattan Project. He's known for helping develop the Urchin initiator which is described as a trigger for platinum war heads. Tuck stayed at Los Alamos labs after the Manhattan Project ended and the lab became the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Overlap with Harald Malmgren story?

Before I get into Tucks documented history of UFO research, I should mention what could be a relevant piece of context. Tuck was almost certainly a scientist working on the 1962 nuclear test mentioned in JFK advisor Harald Malmgren story of a UFO being accidentally shot down by a nuke.

I cant confirm 100% Tuck worked on the test simply because I haven't read all the documents to see if his name comes up, but it is possible that he consulted on the project. Operation Dominic was a series of joint US/UK nuclear tests. Plutonium bombs were used in the test, that much i have confirmed by doing a keyword search on the final report. I mentioned early Tuck helped developed a component specifically for nuclear bombs. The scientists running these tests came from national labs of Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, where Tuck worked as Associate Director of the Physics Division.

Harald Malmgren says one of the people who briefed him on the UFO being brought down during the test was Director of the AEC Lawrence Preston Gise (Jeff Bezos Grandfather). Gise, also a former DARPA Deputy Director, allegedly told Malmgren about the existence of UFO reverse engineering programs. Gise at the time was overseeing operations at Los Alamos, where Tuck spent his career until he retired in the late 70's.

Tucks Letters

The story gets interesting when I searched for DoE UFO records. In an untitled link which appears to be just random numbers, on a page that says NNSA (National Nuclear Security Agency) UFO records leads to another page that says Letters. It's a handful of letters of James Tuck asking for and receiving information about UFOs.

UFO Sightings Over Los Alamos

The first letter is addressed to Tuck about seemingly regular UFO sightings at Los Alamos from 1948-51. This letter is referring to a time when there was an explosion of mass UFO sightings across the country but specifically at nuclear facilities. The situation was so prevalent that a conference was organized at Los Alamos in 1949 to figure out what was going on.

Notable figures present were Edward Teller, another Manhattan project scientist, Dr Lincoln LaPaz, an astronomer known as the father of meteor studies as well top military commanders at the bases with these incidents occurring. The UFO sightings had become so common that everyone at the bases and labs had a sighting at least one time, including everyone gathered for that top secret conference.

There are minutes available from the meeting. After reviewing information from the sightings the speakers prepared a presentation essentially ruling out any explanation in their areas of expertise.

Teller, who was just a key figure in the most classified technology program in the world said the objects described are moving in a way that no advanced tech in the US can much less a foreign government that isn't as advanced. LaPaz said it couldn't be meteor for several reasons including color and trajectory. Importantly he pointed out that if these were meteors they could find where it landed or any pieces that broke off, but that never happened.

There has never been an adequate explanation for what was being seen. It actually reminds me of all the recent "drone" sightings at military facilities happening now. These seem to be genuine UFOs, and Tuck was looking into them again in 1970 as the letter suggests.

Condon Committee

The letter to an Army Cornell from Tuck starts: "as aggreed in our telephone conversations of today date, i would like to have the recipe that was used for the simulated Atomic bomb detonation." I have no idea what this was referencing but the fact that this conversation was ongoing, partially over the phone and likely in other letters not included on the DoE website is important to note.

In the next line Tuck asks for data mentioned in the report from the Condon Committee. In it he says that "we are interested in the large atmospheric vortices which are produced as reported in [final report]." Notice he said we as if others at Los Alamos were interested in source material from the Condon Committee. I believe what Tuck was referring to is this part of the report.

"We find that there are important areas of atmospheric optical including radio wave propagation, and of atmospheric electricity in which present knowledge is quite incomplete"

The reason why he might be asking about that relates to the final letter.

Ball Lightning

This letter starts: "Mindful of your interesting report on ball lightning, I am enclosing comments on same by a UFO believer, James M McCampbell, in his UFOLOGY, 1976, appearing on the new non-fiction shelf at the Mesa Library. This is a book that focuses on a scientific analysis of UFO sightings and how the technology could work.

The next line whoever wrote Tuck gave thoughts on a specific and very interesting chapter 7 "Flight and Propulsion". Throughout the book there were 22 mentions of ball lightning. The mentions of ball lightning begin by dismissing attempts to call all UFO sightings ball lightning. The more interesting mentions are when there's a connection made to the plasma seen in ball lightning and the potential energy source used to propel UFOs.

As the letter states, Tuck wrote a report at Los Alamos about Ball lightning in 1968. What's even more wild is he might have created it during a laboratory experiment. In a video interview Tuck describes the test he did one day on his lunch break when he believes he likely created ball lightning using an old giant submarine battery the last day before it was about to be taken offline.

Tuck says he can't say he for certain as a scientist he created Ball because he never recreated the experiments but during the short clip, he plays a video of the phenomenon likely being recorded on two cameras at the time of the experiments.

Although he died in 1980 James Tucks research continued to be associated with UFO research decades later in a twist even I wasn't prepared for.

Eric Davis, The Air Force and Ball Lightning

At the end of the ball lightning segment, the host made some bold claims about ball lightning potentially being a source of unlimited energy. I went searching for more scientific research into ball lighting that confirmed this or any connection to UFOs. This lead me to a few sources, but I remembered Eric Davis Published a report for the Air Force Research Lab on the topic of ball lightning that was public after successful FOIA requests John Greenwald. The report was produced for Franklin Meade who's listed as the project manger. He works runs the advanced propulsion directorate edwards afb.

As you'd expect, the report mentioned UFOs several times. There was also a section dedicated to Hal Puthoffs Zero Point energy research. Cited in the report is James Tuck Los Alamos report on ball lighting. In the abstract of the report Davis describes 3 new concepts that he found that should be explored. The first, atmospheric masor caviton, which is described in the book that James Tuck was encouraged to read in that letter. The second was electromagnetic vortex plasmoids sustained by quantum vacuum energy. The last concept Davis proposed for exploration "is a [redacted] program the Air Force Funded in the 1950's-60's." I can only assume that program relates to the last 7 pages of the report since they are all redacted under b(3) FOIA exemption. We can't even see the title of the section in the index.

So what could Eric Davis have mentioned that would trigger such a heavy handed redaction in an otherwise unclassified report on Ball Lightning? I have a theory might surprise you.

Recently in a discussion at the Sol Conference. On stage at the Sol Conference with former Senate Staffer Kirk McConnell who moments earlier just shared how ball lightning reports contributed to his research into UFOs, Eric Davis provided context for his work at the AFRL.:

"I spent a lot of years supporting advanced breakthrough propulsion technology, some UFO research for the program manager there, as well following up with my work at NIDS, I carried over to my air force work investigating the shreds of evidence that there existed highly classified programs running reverse engineering and retrieval of craft of unknown origins, UFO craft.."

Was the redacted program Davis mentioned in his ball lightning report a reverse engineering program? A considerable amount of evidence suggests that's the case. First let's talk about the b(3) FOIA exemption. I'm no expert but a b(3) is to protect information specifically exempt from release by law. An example given was that Intelligence agencies are exempt from releasing "operational files."

Additionally just last month someone received a FOIA response to a request for all records from the AFRL mentioning Davis and other UFO related terms during the years he worked for them. The Air Force are charging him $24,000 for what they claim will be 500 hours of labor to access the responsive records they admit to having. I've never seen a response like this to a FOIA requests and it suggests someone doesn't want to release those Davis records.

Another point that may or may not be related are the signal messages with a senior government official that Chris Mellon posted. In the messages the official tells Mellon "We know the management structure and security control systems and ownership of the C/R (crash retrieval) we also know who recovers landed or crashed [UFO] under what authorities. We also know that a still highly classified memo by a Secretary of the USAF in the 1950's is still in effect to maintain the cover on [UFOs.]"

Maybe its a coincidence but we know Chris Mellon has been bringing Eric Davis to testify about the UFO program to at least two senate committees. Are they talking about 2 separate 1950's Air Force program related to UFOs?

An Actual Functioning ARV (Alien Reproduction Vehicle)

As if this wasn't weird enough, there's more. According to Davis his time with the AFRL was working on advanced propulsion and looking into reverse engineering programs. In a report he cited the UFO curious Los Alamos scientist James Tuck, but Davis Published other eyebrow raising reports at the time.

At this point the 88 page report from Davis on teleportation is looking like the most tame one. Eric Davis put out a report on something called a Lightcraft. It turns out the Lightcraft was a project that program manager Franklin Meade had been working on since at least the 70's on Project Outgrowth. Like many others who follow the claims of these reverse engineering programs I had no real clue how successful reverse engineering has been. After researching this lightcraft project, I'm nearly almost certain the government and defense contractors have fully functional reverse engineered craft.

Decades before that report from Davis, Meade and a scientist named Leik Myrabo who worked on the Reagan SDI (Star Wars program) had been experimenting on and formally presenting at conferences research for a laser propelled spacecraft. The two had published work with the Air Force, NASA and DARPA on this weird acorn shaped object with no visible means of propulsion, but move using a bright light at the bottom, like a literal UFO. There are at least two prototype sizes, a smaller 8 inch version that you can hold with one hand and a larger one that’s a meter.

In one video posted 4 years ago, but seems to be recorded around the same time as the video posted in 2008, Myrabo says they plan on using the technology to launch satellites in 5 years. Which brings up the elephant in the room, if this research was so well established back then where is it now? Myrabo also said one of the reasons he created the light craft was "so anyone can go into space for the price of a plane ticket."

One 6 minute video is Myrabo is in what I can best describe as a short Mythbusters style segment where a group of scientists perform a set of tests with the lightcraft. It was recorded at the White Sands missile range. The laser being used was from the Ronald Reagan Star Wars Program..

If this wasn't surreal enough, in both videos they describe a second generation craft being developed by NASA. It's literally a computer model of flying disc.

That same video the narrator says "aspects of Myrabo's design go back to the 1950s including it's flying saucer like shape." You remember that 1950s Air Force program that got redacted from Eric Davis Ball Lightning report. Are they referencing the same thing?

Eric Davis Denials of Any Successful Reverse Engineering

Before this article I didn't have strong opinions on how successful reverse engineering efforts have been. Eric Davis has stated there hasn't been any successful for years. Although it contradicts some other research, I thought Davis might have been lied to, or he was told this about one out of could be multiple separate programs, or he could be right, or he's lying. Now I'm almost certain he's lying.

And it's not because I've attached myself to the mythology of the ARV and became obsessed, as he's previously described researchers who believe their have been varying levels of success. The reason I think he's lying is because I see his name all over research about a Lightcraft, inspired by UFOs and looks like a literal UFO in the several video experiments online. If I were to believe Davis, I'd have to work hard to not believe my lying eyes.

In a recent interview Davis was asked about contractors role in the Legacy program, he mentions TRW being involved since the 60's. Remember that laser Myrabo was using at White Sands from the 80's Star Wars program? TRW built that. For context TRW was a contractor, but it's divisions were split and bought by larger contractors. One was the Aerospace Corporation, where Davis worked recently. The other was Northrup Grumman, also with a history of UFO research. There's another report on the Lightcraft that's basically a timeline that tracked its development. There's a page that list TRW as the contractor on Meades original Project Outgrowth.

So to follow Davis logic: TRW has been reverse engineering since the 60's; they are on record as the contractor on the project that birthed Lightcraft in 1972; they built the laser used in the successful Lightcraft tests over 20 years ago, and Myrabo worked on the Star Wars program but we're suppose to believe that people in the program (like TRW) have done no successful reverse engineering for decades? The very next question after naming TRW, he doubles and triples down on there being no ARV. Again, not sure why he's doing it, but he's lying. Might be the classic limited hangout, mix some facts with some bullshit so no one has a clear picture of what's going on. Davis involvement with the House Oversight Committee and public comments suggest he might be testifying soon. If it’s under oath or in an interview someone needs to ask Davis about the Lightcraft.

Overlap Between James Tuck and Myrabo's Research

In the 50's, similar to operation Dominic, there was another joint Program between LANL and LLNL called project Sherwood. UCLA records have Tuck listed as the Head of Sherwood at Los Alamos. Records show Edward Teller also participated in the project. Yes, the same Manhattan Project cientist who investigated the UFO sightings at Los Alamos that were mentioned in the James Tuck letter.

Sherwood was a nuclear fusion research program. James Tucks Ball Lightning report was part of Sherwood. Other topics of interest to me: z pinch which is plasma tech that can be applied to propulsion; the stellarator, and magnetic mirrors. Myrabo's functional lightcraft prototype operates by blasting a laser at magnetic mirrors at the bottom that are angled in a way to build up and release a plasma burst.

A direct connection between James Tucks work and the lightcraft research is yet to be explored, Inertial Electrostatic Confinement. IEC is basically the study of how to confine and control plasma. James Tuck wrote a paper on this. Similarly scientists, David Froning and George Miley, affiliated with Myrabo’s lightcraft have also published work on IEC. In one paper they specifically mention IEC in relation to an “airbreathing” aspect of propulsion which is repeatedly mentioned in lightcraft research: The inertial electrostatic confinement approach to fusion power, Combining MHD Airbreathing and Fusion Rocket Propulsion for Earth‐to‐Orbit Flight. As a reminder, the lightcraft operates by using mirrors to focus a laser to the point where the heat builds up into a plasma that propels the craft.

A direct connection between James Tucks work and the lightcraft research, yet to be explored, Inertial Electrostatic Confinement. IEC is basically the study of how to confine and control plasma. James Tuck wrote a paper on this. Similarly scientists, David Froning and George Miley, affiliated with Myrabo’s lightcraft have also published work on IEC. In one paper they specifically mention IEC in relation to an “airbreathing” aspect of propulsion which is repeatedly mentioned in lightcraft research: The inertial electrostatic confinement approach to fusion power, Combining MHD Airbreathing and Fusion Rocket Propulsion for Earth‐to‐Orbit Flight. As a reminder, the lightcraft operates by using mirrors to focus a laser to the point where the heat builds up into a plasma that propels the craft.

Another connection to Sherwood is Edward Teller. I mentioned Myrabo worked on the Reagan Star Wars Program. Here's specifically what he was doing "the LTD concept, which was a laser propelled trans-atmospheric vehicle (TAV) concept, was analytically developed by Prof. Myrabo [...] for (LLNL) and the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO)"

Myrabo was working on the lightcraft as part of the Star Wars programs. Edward Teller reportedly convinced Ronald Reagan to create the STD after giving him briefings on Directed Energy Weapons, like high power lasers. So decades apart, James Tuck and Myrabo were researching the same topics at the same national lab. Edward Teller was working on both projects. And Eric Davis cites James Tuck in his Ball Lightning report at the same time he's right in the middle of Lightcraft research at the AFRL. In Davis own words he was at the AFRL working on advanced propulsion, UFOs for his project manager Franklin Meade, and to investigate UFO crash retrieval programs just like he had been doing for Bigelow at NIDS.

As people attack Harald Malmgren credibility and character, this part of the story seems hard to deny. James Tuck was working at the same national lab and almost certainly on the same operation overseeing the nuclear test that Malmgren says brought down a UFO. Harald also says he was briefed on the crash retrieval program by the AEC Director Lawrence Gise who was also working at Los Alamos.

There's a direct line from Tuck, another Los Alamos scientist Edward Teller and a revolutionary UFO prototype funded by the Air Force and NASA.

DoD Caught Lying In AARO Report (Again)

One last point I want to address, no matter what this is, the evidence I compiled blows a giant hole in the already discredited AARO Historical Report. How can AARO strongly deny claims of reverse engineering programs in their allegedly extensive historical review? How do you have no mention of Leik Myrabo and Franklin Meades Lightcraft or the 2nd generation NASA lightcraft? They were waiving a literal flying disc around at conferences and in reports since the 80's.

Eric Davis says he even gave testimony to AARO but they never called him back or followed up with any of the witnesses that he named. Also AARO failed to mention any of the UFO files from James Tuck, which I'm assuming has a lot more than 3 letters, a 16 page ball lightning report and that 4 minute segment on his ball lightning experiment.

No one should believe a word from AARO when it comes to their constant denials of crash retrieval programs when their paid staff and interagency support is too incompetent, or more likely, too invested in the coverup to include any of the entirely open source information I presented here in their conclusive report.

You decide what to do with this information. I'd hope people run with it and add even more. But I feel the same as I have at the end of most of my articles lately. Who knows when we'll ever get the smoking gun, if we get it. But the weight of the evidence that is publicly available has become overwhelming.

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