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Eleven Americans connected to nuclear research, aerospace engineering, propulsion science, or the broader UAP discussion have died or disappeared since June 2022. The federal government is now investigating whether the cases are connected.
The FBI confirmed last week that it is “spearheading the effort” to look for links among the cases, working with the Department of Energy, the Department of War, and state and local law enforcement. On April 21, the House Oversight Committee announced its own formal investigation. Chair James Comer (R-Kentucky) told Fox News that it is “very unlikely this is a coincidence” and that “there’s a high possibility that something sinister is taking place here.”
The list includes some of the most accomplished people in their fields. Retired Air Force Major General William Neil “Mac” McCasland, the seventh commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, walked out of his Albuquerque home on February 27, 2026 and has not been seen since. He left behind his phone, his glasses, and his wearable devices. His wallet, a .38 caliber revolver, his hiking boots, and a red backpack are unaccounted for. Carl Grillmair, a Caltech astrophysicist who collaborated with NASA on exoplanet research, was shot to death on his front porch in February 2026 by a man who did not appear to know him. Nuno Loureiro, the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was killed in his Massachusetts home in December 2025, in what authorities have attributed to a rivalry with another scientist. Amy Eskridge, a 34-year-old plasma physicist working on antigravity propulsion in Huntsville, Alabama, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in June 2022. One month before her death, she texted a friend: “If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not.”
Three other cases share a striking geographic and institutional overlap. Anthony Chavez, a 78-year-old former Los Alamos National Laboratory foreman, vanished in May 2025. Melissa Casias, an administrative assistant at Los Alamos, walked off near a New Mexico highway in June 2025, leaving behind a phone that had been factory-reset. Steven Garcia, a top-secret-cleared contractor at the Kansas City National Security Campus, left his Albuquerque home on foot in August 2025, carrying only a handgun. None of the three has been found.
Three competing theories now dominate the public conversation.
The first is that foreign adversaries are targeting American scientists. Congressman Eric Burlison (R-Missouri) has been the loudest voice in Washington on this theory, telling NewsNation that the disappearances have “all the hallmarks of a foreign operation” and that he “would not be surprised if our adversaries, China, Russia, Iran, or any other adversary saw an opportunity to take out some of our nation’s top scientists.” Chris Swecker, a retired FBI agent, told Fox News that the work some of the deceased and missing scientists were doing “would certainly, without a doubt, be a target of a hostile foreign intelligence service.”
The second theory is that the deaths and disappearances are tied to classified UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) programs. Lue Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has appeared on Chris Cuomo’s podcast suggesting that UFO disclosure activists and government insiders are being silenced. McCasland once commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the facility long rumored to house extraterrestrial debris from the 1947 Roswell incident. Eskridge’s friend Franc Milburn, a former British intelligence officer, has released text messages in which Eskridge described being targeted by what she called a “directed energy weapon” before her death.
The third theory is that there is no pattern at all. Michael Shermer, the editor-in-chief of Skeptic, has called the phenomenon a textbook case of “patternicity,” the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise. Science writer Mick West has pointed out that more than 700,000 Americans hold top-secret clearance in the aerospace and nuclear sectors, and that the expected statistical baseline for deaths from homicide and suicide alone over the relevant time period would be roughly 250 individuals, far exceeding the 11 cited in the conspiracy theory. The families of several of the deceased have publicly rejected the conspiracy framing. Eskridge’s father, a retired NASA engineer, told NewsNation: “Scientists die also, just like other people.”
President Trump was asked about the investigation on April 17. “I just left a meeting on that subject, so pretty serious stuff,” Trump said. “Hopefully, coincidence, but some of them were very important people.” He chuckled when he said the word “coincidence.”
The FBI confirmed last week that it is “spearheading the effort” to look for links among the cases, working with the Department of Energy, the Department of War, and state and local law enforcement. On April 21, the House Oversight Committee announced its own formal investigation. Chair James Comer (R-Kentucky) told Fox News that it is “very unlikely this is a coincidence” and that “there’s a high possibility that something sinister is taking place here.”
The list includes some of the most accomplished people in their fields. Retired Air Force Major General William Neil “Mac” McCasland, the seventh commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, walked out of his Albuquerque home on February 27, 2026 and has not been seen since. He left behind his phone, his glasses, and his wearable devices. His wallet, a .38 caliber revolver, his hiking boots, and a red backpack are unaccounted for. Carl Grillmair, a Caltech astrophysicist who collaborated with NASA on exoplanet research, was shot to death on his front porch in February 2026 by a man who did not appear to know him. Nuno Loureiro, the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was killed in his Massachusetts home in December 2025, in what authorities have attributed to a rivalry with another scientist. Amy Eskridge, a 34-year-old plasma physicist working on antigravity propulsion in Huntsville, Alabama, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in June 2022. One month before her death, she texted a friend: “If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not.”
Three other cases share a striking geographic and institutional overlap. Anthony Chavez, a 78-year-old former Los Alamos National Laboratory foreman, vanished in May 2025. Melissa Casias, an administrative assistant at Los Alamos, walked off near a New Mexico highway in June 2025, leaving behind a phone that had been factory-reset. Steven Garcia, a top-secret-cleared contractor at the Kansas City National Security Campus, left his Albuquerque home on foot in August 2025, carrying only a handgun. None of the three has been found.
Three competing theories now dominate the public conversation.
The first is that foreign adversaries are targeting American scientists. Congressman Eric Burlison (R-Missouri) has been the loudest voice in Washington on this theory, telling NewsNation that the disappearances have “all the hallmarks of a foreign operation” and that he “would not be surprised if our adversaries, China, Russia, Iran, or any other adversary saw an opportunity to take out some of our nation’s top scientists.” Chris Swecker, a retired FBI agent, told Fox News that the work some of the deceased and missing scientists were doing “would certainly, without a doubt, be a target of a hostile foreign intelligence service.”
The second theory is that the deaths and disappearances are tied to classified UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) programs. Lue Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has appeared on Chris Cuomo’s podcast suggesting that UFO disclosure activists and government insiders are being silenced. McCasland once commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the facility long rumored to house extraterrestrial debris from the 1947 Roswell incident. Eskridge’s friend Franc Milburn, a former British intelligence officer, has released text messages in which Eskridge described being targeted by what she called a “directed energy weapon” before her death.
The third theory is that there is no pattern at all. Michael Shermer, the editor-in-chief of Skeptic, has called the phenomenon a textbook case of “patternicity,” the human tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise. Science writer Mick West has pointed out that more than 700,000 Americans hold top-secret clearance in the aerospace and nuclear sectors, and that the expected statistical baseline for deaths from homicide and suicide alone over the relevant time period would be roughly 250 individuals, far exceeding the 11 cited in the conspiracy theory. The families of several of the deceased have publicly rejected the conspiracy framing. Eskridge’s father, a retired NASA engineer, told NewsNation: “Scientists die also, just like other people.”
President Trump was asked about the investigation on April 17. “I just left a meeting on that subject, so pretty serious stuff,” Trump said. “Hopefully, coincidence, but some of them were very important people.” He chuckled when he said the word “coincidence.”
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