A wireless data acquisition and recording (DAR) system includes acquisition circuitry including a video camera and/or a microphone carried by an operator for capturing video and audio events viewed and/or heard by the operator. A wireless transmitter wirelessly transmits digital signals containing the video events captured by the video camera and the audio events detected by the microphone. A data display and report submission (DD) device receives the wirelessly transmitted digital data captured by the acquisition circuitry and stores the data as media files. The DAR system can also authenticate date, time, and location of the captured video and audio events. The DAR system can also encode the recorded events for authentication purposes and can scramble the data to prevent use by unauthorized persons.