I have to read through all this and will admit to shooting from the hip with these nest comments.
The US Air Force and probably the other services as well, have always maintained some sort of 'foreign technology retrieval' unit(s) that have absolutely nothing to do with UFOs. Been a while since I've read Ruppelt's book but I think he makes mention of it. When I hear about the Kecksburg, PA incident this is what comes to mind. What we don't hear much about is what happens after a North Koran pilot lands his MiG in Japan, or when they find a crashed but Mitsubishi A6M stuck in the permafrost on Akutan Island. Or in an extreme example, the Glomar Explorer. One of the tasks given to remote viewers in Project Stargate was to find a Soviet reconnaissance Tu-22 stuck in the jungle canopy in Africa, which they did.
So to me hints about crash retrieval smack of the ordinary. Dramatic, exciting, secret yes. I think real life can be more exciting than fiction in some aspects. If I can rattle of a few examples then without doubt there a many, many more that the general public will never hear about, at least for a very long time. I can see how that sort of thing could be interpreted by a person without the historical background and a predisposition to belief.
From what I've seen and heard of Dr.Davis, yes, he's got the chops. Without resorting to Wiki I think he said he was an adjunct professor at UT Austin and is a senior member of the lab Hal Puthoff has - the one studying the metamaterials I think. In one interview I heard him rattle off a list of iconic UFO cases starting with Roswell and spoke about them as absolute fact, as if no debate had taken place over their validity. Unsettling. He doesn't seem to mind the attention given to him by the UFO community. He is highly educated and has impressive credentials, but we're all human subject to the same human foibles; bad breath, lousy parking habits and ego.
What I'd really like, what I would ask for for Christmas, is to hear from someone who hasn't been involved in all the UFOlogy nonsense who can step forward and clearly say X, Y and Z without innuendo, drama, what have you. I get tired of hints, suggestions, incomplete pieces of documents. Jesus, we're still batting around MJ12 documents they way my cats work over a tin foil ball. Endlessly amusing apparently but to little useful purpose. I'd like to hear something new that doesn't involve the same cast of characters.
Don't want to derail this thread, so if a response to this might include the current UFO news maybe we can do that over in the two threads already going on them.