FTA: During the question and answer session, Dr. Davis was asked whether UFOs had “…guided [the] thinking and research” of such speculative matters as warp drive and traversable wormholes.
Dr. Davis responded, “Secretly yes and overtly no.” He explained that because “…UFOs don’t have credibility with mainstream academic researchers,” and because policy-makers and funding agencies “…don’t like the topic of UFOs,” some members of the group were forced to “…consider it under the table.”
Continuing on with his comments, Davis contrasted what he considered relevant observed UFO phenomena with their work. In comparing data taken from UFO investigators such as Jacques Vallee, George Hathaway, and the questioner, he said “we’ve been able to use that data as input to give us an idea, and that data does drive the concepts that we did derive later on [when we did] the book and [that] went into the original NASA program.”