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Weinstein Confronts Pentagon Scientist: 'Where Are the Physicists?'

March 9, 2026 – March 15, 2026

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Saturday, March 8

Eric Weinstein to Pentagon Scientist: ‘You Can’t Engineer Your Way Out of a Science Problem’

In a nearly four-hour episode of Jesse Michels’s American Alchemy podcast, mathematician Eric Weinstein sat across the table from astrophysicist Eric W. Davis – one of the few credentialed scientists who claims direct knowledge of a U.S. crash-retrieval program – and pressed him on a question no one in UFO disclosure has adequately answered: if the U.S. government really recovered craft that defy the laws of physics, why was there never a single theoretical physicist on the program?

Davis confirmed that none of David Grusch’s approximately 40 firsthand witnesses were physicists. He described asking a senior aerospace executive directly: “Where are your physicists?” The answer: “We don’t have any. We never did.” Weinstein called it internally absurd: “It’s like saying we’re having trouble performing Beethoven’s fifth, and we have the finest accountants, optometrists, boxers, and cardio trainers.”

Davis also made his clearest public statement on the Wilson-Davis memo – “They’re real. They’re legit. They’re 100% accurate” – and stated his conviction on Roswell at “100%,” specifying the crash occurred at the Foster Ranch in Corona, New Mexico. The Pentagon’s official position remains that no evidence of extraterrestrial technology or reverse-engineering programs has been found. Full article